Leave Amiens by the Boulevard d'Alsace-Lorraine, in front of the station, on the left. Beyond the cemetery, take N. 29 to Albert, on the right.
Eleven kilometres beyond Amiens, Pont-Noyelles is passed through. This village was made famous by the sanguinary, indecisive battle fought there on December 23, 1870, between the French and Germans. To the left of the road, just outside the village, a monument commemorates the battle.
Twenty-eight kilometres beyond Amiens, N. 29 enters Albert.
ALBERT.
The prosperous, industrial town of Albert, whose population before the war numbered more than 7,000 inhabitants, is to-day entirely in ruins.
Lying at the foot of a hill, on both sides of the River Ancre, Albert formerly went by the name of Ancre.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century Albert belonged to Concini, the favourite minister of Marie de Medicis, but after his downfall in 1619 it became the property of Charles d'Albert, Duke of Luynes, who gave it his name.
Albert during the War
Passing through Albert