Editing Valenciennes (section)

===<FONT COLOR="#FF9900">'''French Revolution'''</FONT>===
'''The city was besieged by the First Coalition against Revolutionary France''' in 1793. The city was captured, plundered and occupied in July by Anglo-Austrian forces under the Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and the Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg, and only retaken by the French Revolutionary armies in August 1794. After the Napoleonic era, Valenciennes gave itself up to the Bourbon Restoration in 1815 for 5 years.  After that, the town's sugar-refining and coal industries once more started to expand. On 6 August 1890, a law downgraded the town's fortified status, and so '''from 1891 to 1893, its fortifications were demolished'''.  The town was granted the Légion d'honneur in 1900.