Arras
Arras is a city of northern France, préfecture (capital) of the Pas-de-Calais département.Latin: Atrebatum.
It was located in the former province of Artois.
Arras was the birthplace of Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionist.
The fortifications were upgraded by Vauban.
The Arras were also a tribe which migrated from France to England and practiced ceremonial burial rites (500-400 B.C.) where the chariot was interred with the chieftain.External link
