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Saint-Michel-sous-Bois

commune in Pas-de-Calais, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ1023845 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saint-Michel-sous-Bois (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ miʃɛl su bwa]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Geography

Saint-Michel-sous-Bois is located 9 miles (15.5 km) northeast of Montreuil-sur-Mer on the D129 road.

Population

Places of interest

The church of St.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Saint-Michel-sous-Bois” as commune in Pas-de-Calais, France. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 43-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Saint-Michel-sous-Bois, commune and Pas-de-Calais can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as commune in Pas-de-Calais, France. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1023845. VIAF identifies the subject as 5101153126238324750002. Authority coordinates are 50.514, 1.932. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Michel-sous-Bois” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.