Ellezelles

Ellezelles is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
It consists of the following districts: Ellezelles, Lahamaide, and Wodecq. Bordering Flanders, the town is home to a minority of Dutch-speakers.
The village archives contain a document "attesting" to the birth of Hercule Poirot on 1 April 1850.

Notable people

Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War.
Richard Ely a Belgian writer, journalist and ethnobotanist.