1. Picardy - Noun
2. Picardy - Proper noun
a region of northern France on the English Channel
Source: WordNetAfter an aborted siege of Cambrai, Edward led his army on a destructive chevauchée through Picardy, destroying hundreds of villages all the while shadowed by the French. Source: Internet
After the regency ended, Maximilian and Charles VIII of France exchanged these two territories for Burgundy and Picardy in the Treaty of Senlis (1493). Source: Internet
Between that year and the peace of 1659 he had taken part in or directed ten sieges with distinction, had been wounded several times, and was rewarded by the king with the free gift of a company in the famous Picardy regiment. Source: Internet
Charles Martel died on October 22, 741, at Quierzy-sur-Oise in what is today the Aisne département in the Picardy region of France. Source: Internet
The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt (about 1230) Perpetuum Mobile of Villard de Honnecourt (about 1230) Villard de Honnecourt (Wilars dehonecort, Vilars de Honecourt) was a 13th-century artist from Picardy in northern France. Source: Internet
Other alternative names are Région Flandre(s)-Artois, Hauts-de-France, ('Upper France') and Picardie-du-Nord ('Northern Picardy '). Source: Internet