Varennes, Somme

Wishing to promote the culture of their region, land was granted to the people to build homes, free from any kind of duties and taxes.

Like the King and Prince John Tristan of France, Count of Valois, he died in front of Tunis in August 1270, due to dysentery.

[6] During the Thirty Years War, Varennes suffered looting and destruction by Spanish troops, as testified by a verbatim record of 1636, in which it says that the village was burned down in September 1635.

In the most recent excavations in 1970, various inscriptions were noted on the walls: "1636 Adrien Lefebvre"; “1660 Guillomin Ringard”; “Antonin Goubet in the year 1677"; they also found a coin dated 1656.

[8] In September 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, Varennes was occupied by the Germans for three or four days, the village was subjected to theft, damage to housing and they had to feed the enemy troops and horses.

Florent, lord of Varennes, on the 2nd boat, with his shield "Gules a Cross Or"