Givet (French pronunciation: [ʒi.vɛ]) (German: Gibet; Walloon: Djivet) is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France surrounded on three sides by the Belgian border.

This was a successful unofficial initiative for teaching navigation that also provided a center for the growth of religious piety in the Royal Navy.

The British, under General Montgomery, organized a last-ditch defense, and on 24 December, the German drive was stopped about 10 kilometres (6 mi) from Givet.

Givet is also the birthplace of writer Henry Bidou (1873 – 1943), pianist Jeanne-Marie Darré (1905-1999) and oboist Gilles Silvestrini (born 1961).

The port declined after the canal was enlarged to allow 1,350 ton barges in the 1960s,[14] but, when it was reconnected to the railway in 2013, it was still handling about 760,000 tonnes of freight a year.

[15] Givet is served by several main roads, including D8051 to Rocroi, formerly N51, and D949, which is the French section of Belgium's N40, linking Arlon and Mons.