Editing Guise (section)

==Miscellaneous==
Guise was the birthplace of [[Camille Desmoulins]] (1760–1794), a [[journalist]] and [[politician]] who played an important part in the [[French Revolution]], and that of [[Jeanne Macherez]] who was a heroine during the World War I.
[[File:Familistère Central Guise Intérieur.JPG|thumb|left|Le Familistère de Guise]]
Over a period of 20 years, beginning about 1856, [[Jean-Baptiste Godin]] built the {{ill|Familistery of Guise|fr|Familistère de Guise|de|Familistère|pt|Familistério de Godin}} (the Social Palace), an industrial and communal residential complex that was a separate community within Guise.  It expressed many of his ideas about developing social sympathy through improved housing and services for workers and their families, influenced by the ideas of the philosopher [[Charles Fourier]].  In 1880 Godin created a cooperative association by which the workers owned and managed the complex.  This continued until 1968.

On the 29th of August 1914  the [[Battle of St. Quentin (1914)]] was fought in and around the town. A memorial in Guise celebrates this event.
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