Yes, in Belgium.

Gembloux is a small city or large town located north an a bit west of Namur. In it self it was insignificant to the campaign. The general region lay along the main zone of resistance for the projected 'Dyle Line'.

The French 1st Army drew the mission of defending this sector, with one flank anchored on the fortresses of namur (defended by a Belgian corps), and the other flank on the BEF covering the critical industrial city of Louvain to the north. This are is some times refered to as a "land bridge" as it lies astride the high ground between the Meuse River to the south and east, and the other small rivers flowing north ans west to the North Sea. With only very small streams, no forrests, and a very gently rolling plain between the bridges leading to Masstrict and west into the central Belgian plain it seemd a ideal line of advance for a modern mechanized force. Consequently the French covered this sector with their best mobile force - Gen Pirouxs corps of the 2d & 3rd DLM, and they assigned better trained infantry divsions to the First Army.