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Corbie is a Commune of the Somme '' Département '', in northern France . LOCATION The small town is situated 15 km up river from Amiens , in the département Somme , main town of the Canton of Corbie. It lies in the valley of the River Somme , at the confluence of the River Ancre. The town is bisected by the Canal de la Somme . This Satellite photograph shows it in its context. The town is to the left and the Fenny Somme valley winds down to it from the right. The Chalk of the Upper Cretaceous Plateau shows pale in the fields. The River Ancre flows down from the north-east. The A29 is shown under construction snaking across the chalk in the southern part of the picture. The fainter, straight line just to its north is the road, N29. It passes through Villers-Bretonneux , the village just south of Corbie. TWIN TOWNS HISTORY
Corbie Abbey The abbey was founded in about 660, around a corpus of monks from the Abbey Of Luxeuil , in the Franche-Comté . This about twenty years before the Northumbria n monasteries of Wearmouth (674) and Jarrow (681). Its scriptorium came to be one of the centres of work of manuscript illumination when the art was still fairly new in western Europe. At this early, Merovingian date, the Corbie work was innovative in that it showed pictures of people; for example of Saint Jerome . The contents of its library are known from catalogues of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In 1638, Cardinal Richelieu ordered the transfer of the library's books to the library at Saint-Germain-des-Prés . That was dispersed at the end of the eighteenth century. NOTABLE PEOPLE
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