Fargniers

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Fargniers is a part (an associated commune) of the commune (municipality) of Tergnier located in the French department of Aisne.[https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune-associee/02300-fargniers Commune associée de Fargniers], INSEE A former independent municipality, Fargniers was absorbed by Tergnier in 1974.[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/jo/id/JORFCONT000000021309 Modifications aux circonscriptions administratives territoriales (fusion de communes)], Journal officiel de la République française n° 0301, 27 December 1973, p. 13838.{{Cassini-Ehess|13488|Fargniers}} Its population is 3,328 (2022).{{cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/8290591/ensemble.pdf|title=Populations de référence 2022|language=fr|trans-title=Reference populations 2022|publisher=INSEE|date=December 2024}} Destroyed for 95% in the First World War, it was reconstructed in the 1920s with support from the Carnegie Endowment. The civil buildings (town hall, community hall, post office, kindergarten, girls' school, boys' school) lining the central square, Place Carnegie, have been listed as historic monuments.{{Base Mérimée|PA02000018|Place Carnegie de Fargniers}}