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Valenciennes — A town of Hainaut, French since 1678, where Watteau was born
A town of Hainaut on the Scheldt, Burgundian then Spanish, taken by Louis XIV in 1677 and ceded to France by the Peace of Nijmegen the following year. Watteau was born there in the rue Verte six years later, son of a master roofer. (Editorial synthesis)
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