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4 unusual facts about Île de Ré


Claude Buckle

He spent much time during the later years of his life on the Île de Ré at Rivedoux.

Île de Ré

In 745, Hunald the Duke of Aquitaine retired to a monastery on the island.

In 1627, an English invasion force under the command of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham attacked the island in order to relieve the Siege of La Rochelle.

William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury

Salisbury's ship was nearly lost in a storm while returning to England in 1225, and he spent some months in refuge at a monastery on the French island of Ré.


Algerians of the Pacific

Most were sent over to prisons in metropolitan France - Oléron and Saint-Martin-de-Ré (on Île de Ré), then, as these were due to be closed, to Quélern (near Brest).

Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation

Photo taken from Phares des Baleines (Whale Lighthouse) at the western point of Île de Ré (Isle of Rhé), France, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Sir John Lambert, 1st Baronet

He was the eldest son of John Lambert (d. 1702), a merchant of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Île de Ré, France, by Marie Le Fevre.


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