Bailleul (Belle in Dutch) is a small commune of the Nord département, in France, located in French Flanders near Lille. Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Nord (North is a department in the far north of France. It is the country's most populated department In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Lille (lil Rijsel is a city in northern France. It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest Metropolitan area in the country It has 17,191 inhabitants including its nearby hamlets.
The commune includes a historic building, schools and two colleges.
Bailleul is the birthplace of French filmmaker Bruno Dumont and served as the setting for his first two feature films. The cinema of France comprises the art of Film making within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad Bruno Dumont (born 1958 Bailleul, France) is a French Film director. This area is also a setting in the Timothy Findley book The Wars. The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley telling the story of a young Canadian officer in World War I.