In the town of Cambrai, northern France

 The German king Henry I (a.k.a., Henry the Fowler) was the Duke of Saxony from 912 and the King of East Francia from 919 until his death in 936. As the first non-Frankish king of East Francia, he established the Ottonian dynasty of kings and emperors, and he is generally considered to be the founder of the medieval German state, known until then as East Francia.

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(in northern France) The town of Cambrai, in the Nord department of the Nord Pas de Calais region (southeast of Arras and north of Saint-Quentin), is found along the Scheldt River, south of Roubaix. The story of Cambrai is forever part of the story of the First World War, where it was at the very center of the world's first tank battle. The town was called Camaracum under the Romans, and its bishops were made counts by the German king Henry I in the 10th century. Cambrai was long a bone of contention among its neighbors (the counties of Flanders and Hainaut, the kingdom of France, and the Holy Roman Empire), and it frequently changed hands. The League of Cambrai was an alliance against Venice formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII, Ferdinand II of Aragon, and the emperor Maximilian I. The treaty between the Holy Roman emperor Charles V and Francis I of France was signed at Cambrai in 1529. Cambrai eventually was assigned to France by the Treaty of Nijmegen (in 1678). The town’s former cathedral was destroyed in 1793 after the French Revolution, and the town’s present cathedral of Notre Dame (depicted here) was built in the 19th century. Before 1914 Cambrai had a prosperous textile economy based on a fine cloth called cambric. Occupied by the Germans during both World Wars and twice ravaged, the town has been revived. Cambrai now serves as a commercial and administrative center -- and has a branch of the University of Valenciennes. The town lies amid a farming district rich in sugar beets, flax, grain, cattle feed, cattle, and dairy products. Historic buildings and the Fine Arts Museum have helped develop tourism.