Chauny

Chauny is a cooperative in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. There has been a settlement on the site, pretty much persistently, since in any event the Carolingian time. Referred to differently as Calgny, Cauny, Canni, Calni or as Chaulni. In Latin, contemporary writers and history specialists, for example, Flodoard, Guibert de Noyon/Nogent utilized somewhere around 13 unique names when alluding to it, for example, Calnacum, Calniacum, Cauniacum, Calviniacum and Channiacum.

The town was involved by German powers for part of World War I, and was near the forefronts for a great part of the war. It was widely wrecked amid the procedure of its recover by Allied powers in 1917. It is questioned whether, or to what degree, the decimation was brought about by Allied bombardments, airborne and big guns, versus annihilation by withdrawing Germans. Chauny is very much connected to the remainder of the locale by street.

The town is served by an imperative railroad arrange and the rail line has gone through the town since 1849. The railroad station in Chauny is a piece of the Paris - St Quentin - Maubeuge line, and is all around adjusted by Corail and TER trains towards Paris, Compiègne and Saint Quentin. The station was re worked after the war to plans by Urbain Cassan. The Saint-Quentin trench was worked as an intersection between the Somme and the Oise in 1738, is prevalent with scows.