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The Vesle is a river of France, left tributary of the Aisne River. It is 140 kilometres long and flows mainly through the département of Marne. It is the river on which the city of Reims stands.

The Vesle rises at an altitude of about 187 metres, on the dip slope of the Upper Cretaceous chalk, near the village of Somme-Vesle, east of Châlons-en-Champagne. Though still passing through the chalk country, it soon begins to flow on its own Quarternary deposits. It passes through Reims (Latitude 49° 15’ 57’’ N, Longitude 4° 1’ 46’’ E). On leaving the city's western outskirts, it enters the much more wooded landscape of the Eocene geology.

This part of its valley accommodates the road, now the N31/E46, between the two former Gaulish tribal centres of Reims and Soissons. Halfway between the two, at Fismes (Latitude 49° 18' 28" N Longitude 03° 40' 53" E) it receives the river Ardre from its left bank. The road has seen the passage of many kings, emperors and armies over the centuries. The French kings were crowned at Reims and usually returned to Paris this way.

The Vesle joins the Aisne River at Condé-sur-Aisne (Latitude 49° 23' 56" N Longitude 03° 28' 11" E), having descended to an altitude of about 45 metres.

The Vesle flows through the following départements and towns:

Marne: Courtisols, Reims, Fismes
Aisne: Braine

river is a natural waterway that transits water through a landscape from higher to lower elevations. It is an integral component of the water cycle. The water within a river is generally collected from precipitation through surface runoff, groundwater recharge (as seen at baseflow
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"

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Origin Champagne-Ardenne
Mouth Oise
Basin countries France
Length 300 km

Avg. discharge 63 m³/s
Basin area 7,752 km²

The Aisne is a river in northeastern France, left tributary of the river Oise.
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Administrative divisions of France

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Marne

Coat of arms of the Marne department
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Department number: 51
Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Prefecture: Châlons-en-Champagne
Subprefectures: Épernay
Reims
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Reims

Place du Parvis and statue of Joan of Arc, in Reims
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Country France
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Late Cretaceous (100mya - 65mya) refers to the second half of the Cretaceous Period, named after the famous white chalk cliffs of southern England, which date from this time. Rocks deposited during the Late Cretaceous Period are referred to as the Upper Cretaceous Series.
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Chalk (IPA: /ˈtʃɔːk/) is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.
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Commune of
Châlons-en-Champagne
Notre-Dame-en-Vaux

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Country France
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Quaternary Period is the geologic time period from the end of the Pliocene Epoch roughly 1.806 million years ago to the present. The Quaternary includes 2 geologic subdivisions — the Pleistocene, including Gelasian that used to belong to Pliocene, and the Holocene
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The Eocene epoch (55.8 ± 0.2 - 33.9 ± 0.1 Ma) is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Paleocene epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene epoch.
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Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was the name given, in ancient times, to the region of Western Europe comprising present-day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of
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Soissons

Town hall of Soissons

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The Ardre is a fifth order river in France which flows into the Vesle (left tributary) thence into the Aisne, Oise and Seine.

Geography

The river lies to the west of Reims and flows on bearing of about 310° from the Parc Régional de la Montagne de Reims to enter the Vesle
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Reims

Place du Parvis and statue of Joan of Arc, in Reims
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Country France
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Aisne

Coat of arms of the Aisne department
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Administration
Department number: 02
Region: Picardie
Prefecture: Laon
Subprefectures: Château-Thierry
Saint-Quentin
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