Talk:Cambrai

Stuff
When was the town founded ? -- Beardo 03:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * It's pre-Roman (it was a town of the Nervii when Julius Caesar went through there around 57 BC ... I'll add a bit to the article) Antandrus (talk) 04:12, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Excellent. Now we need to fill in the time after ! Like what was the siege of 1677 about ? -- Beardo 06:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * You should translate the french version but even if you don't achieve the translation, you can add the coat of arms !!! Bests regards -- Christophe Marcheux 21:20CET, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

The english name should be Cambray, it is usual with foreign languages to see old names kept. You can see it with the french names of Dutch-speaking places. David Descamps 12:20, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It is most certainly NOT "usual with foreign languages to see old names kept". It is English Wikipedia policy to use the most common name in modern English.  That is undoubtedly Cambrai.  Skinsmoke (talk) 16:33, 14 November 2016 (UTC)


 * This article is remarkably unhelpful on the question of who ruled Cambrai at various points. Johnbod 19:39, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Proust
Is this the same as the Combray Proust goes on about in In Search of Lost Time ? Lycurgus 05:16, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Not at all. Combray is a creation of Proust based on the actual village of Illiers where he spent his youth (now renamed Illiers-Combray). There seems to be also a "real" Combray in Normandy. - CamsterE 17:40, 8 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, yeah that sounds familiar now. Sorry I read it more than 30 years ago. Lycurgus 06:33, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Interlanguage links
Can anyone explain why this article links to Ducasse in the French Wikipedia ? It should link to Cambrai. Does anyone know how to fix this? Skinsmoke (talk) 16:29, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't know why it is like this nor how to edit this. I checked on Wikidata, and there Cambrai links to the right French page. If someone more used than me could edit this, that'd be great. MaximilienThiel (talk) 11:51, 6 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Simply cured by a colon in . --David Biddulph (talk) 15:57, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

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Translate the article
In the section "20th century", there are some articles where only the French versions exist. Maybe someone that's fluent in French and English could make an English article? I don't trust the "translate this page." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74opt (talk • contribs) 22:50, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Origins of the name
As there are no explanation of the origins of the name, I thought I'd add my thought, could it derive from the word 'Cambria'? (Latin name for Wales (or native Britons)), Cumbria in Northern England also means the same thing (albeit different spelling), it mentions that it was first named 'Cambray' > Camerick or Camericke, 'Cambray' which sounds like 'Cymru' (name of Wales in the Welsh language) and Camerick or Camericke which sounds like 'Cymraeg' ('Welsh' in the Welsh language), but my biggest question would be: why? was it named after a Welsh regiment or settlers?

The NWO Satanists will tell you a GAULISH tribe named the ‘Cambrasi’ or somesuch resided by a river thereabodes ….etc, etc, etc…. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:9C97:5D01:2CAE:898C:2A17:1734 (talk) 19:12, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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Cambrick is bysunged in the oldendaytimes English song, Scarborough Fair…
Is the aforesaid byworded in anyway herein? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:9C97:5D01:2CAE:898C:2A17:1734 (talk) 19:05, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Storming of Cambrai
Nothing here on that. It followed the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Spicemix (talk) 21:31, 12 June 2023 (UTC)