page_title: Le Quesnoy
section_title: Folklore
hierarchical_section_title: Le Quesnoy / Folklore
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le Quesnoy, département du Nord (France). Un des deux Géants de la ville&#160;; Pierre Bimberlot, créé en 1904, conservé au premier étage de l'Hôtel de Ville
context_page_description: Le Quesnoy is a commune and small town in the east of the Nord department of northern France; accordingly its historic province is French Hainaut. It had a keynote industry in shoemaking before the late 1940s, followed by a chemical factory and dairy, giving way to its weekly market, tourism, local commuting to elsewhere such as Valenciennes and local shops.
  Le Quesnoy's inhabitants are known as Quercitains.
context_section_description: Le Quesnoy has two of the giant statues of Nord (Géants du Nord), kept on the first floor of the town hall: Pierre Bimberlot, created in 1904, and Giant Maori, created in 2004.  On the first Sunday in August, Pierrot Bimberlot tours the town distributing sweets to onlookers.
  The New Zealand troops who liberated the town in 1918 formed from their ranks an entertainment group the digger pierrots in which the actors were made up as Pierrot.  The coincidence appears to have gone unnoticed in history.
caption: Pierrot Bimberlot
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