Rollot
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Geography
Rollot is situated 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Amiens, on the D 935 road. It is the most southerly commune in the département, just a few hundred yards from the département of Oise.
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History
Rollot is well known throughout France, thanks in part to the locally-made cheese of the same name, since the 18th century.
Population
Places of interest
- Saint Nicolas' church
- Saint Germain's church
- Statue of Antoine Galland
- Feudal motte with a 12th-century cave (private property)
- War memorial
Personalities
- Antoine Galland, born in 1646 at Rollot. Famous orientalist and archaeologist, best remembered as the first European translator of The Thousand and One Nights.
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