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unusual facts about Abbaye-aux-Hommes



Antoine-François Delandine

Nouveau dictionnaire historique, ou Histoire abrégée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait un nom depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à nos jours, avec des tables chronologiques, par Louis-Mayeul Chaudon et Antoine-François Delandine, (8e édition, 1808).

Archenhold School

Its partner schools are the Lycée Aux Lazaristes in Lyon, France and the Frederiksborg Gymnasium in Hillerød, Denmark.

Augustin de La Balme

Augustin Mottin was born 28 August 1733, in the French Alps near Saint-Antoine, the son of a tanner.

Barisis

The village is commonly called Barisis-aux-bois and is in the heart of the national forest of Saint-Gobain.

Battle of Le Transloy

The battle, which opened on 1 October, began well with the capture of Eaucourt L'Abbaye by the 47th (1/2nd London) Division as well as an advance along the Albert-Bapaume road towards Le Sars.

Bojer's skink

It occurs in patches of the Black River Gorges National Park and on some off-shore islands of Mauritius including Ilot Vacoas, Round Island, Serpent Island, Ilot Gabriel, Pigeon Rock, Flat Island, Gunner’s Quoin, Ile aux Aigrettes, and Ile de la Passe.

Camille le Tellier de Louvois

Luc-Normand Tellier, Face aux Colbert : les Le Tellier, Vauban, Turgot ... et l'avènement du libéralisme, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1987, 816 pages.

Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception

In 1890 the canons were given the ancient Abbey of St. Antony in Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye, in the Department of Isère, leaving their original home.

Chevalier D'Aux

Chevalier D'Aux was a senior French commander who, while leading a foraging party into the Isle of Wight to search for sources of clean water to replenish the stocks of a French fleet, which had just been forced to retire from Portsmouth, was attacked and killed in July 1545 by a group of the local Isle of Wight militia, at Bonchurch.

Chimay Abbey

The community, Trappist since 1878, was the successor to the Cistercian community of Gomerfontaine, founded in 1207, suppressed in 1792 and re-established in 1802 at Saint-Paul-aux-Bois.

Cinque Hommes Township, Perry County, Missouri

Cinque Hommes covers an area of 55.5 square miles (143.7km2) and contains one incorporated village (Biehle), and three unincorporated communities: Highland, Millheim, and Schumer Springs.

Dinorah

The story takes place near the rural town of Ploërmel and is based on two Breton tales by Émile Souvestre, "La Chasse aux trésors" and "Le Kacouss de l'Armor", both published separately in 1850 in the Revue des deux mondes.

Dollar, Clackmannanshire

Dollar is twinned with the French town of La Ville Aux Dames, which lies just outside Tours in the Loire Valley.

Ernst Neubach

1964 La Môme aux dollars ( Einer frißt den anderen ) La Vie en Rose to dollars (Einer frisst den anderen), Richard E. Cunha, Gustav Gavrin, Ray Nazarro and Albert Zugsmith (producer)

Escaladieu Abbey

Escaladieu Abbey (French: l'Abbaye de l'Escaladieu) was a Cistercian abbey located in the French commune of Bonnemazon in the Hautes-Pyrénées.

Étienne Marc Quatremère

His manuscript material for Syriac was utilized in Robert Payne Smith's Thesaurus; of the slips he collected for a projected Arabic, Persian and Turkish lexicon some account is given in the preface to Dozy, Supplément aux dictionaires arabes.

Fontgombault Abbey

The Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault (Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Fontgombault) is a Benedictine monastery of the Solesmes Congregation located in Fontgombault in the département of Indre, in the province of Berry, France.

Fort Pointe-aux-Trembles

Fort Pointe-aux-Trembles was built around 1670 on the Island of Montreal in order to defend this part of the island which also included Ville-Marie.

Gabriel Camps

He studied first in Oran later in Algiers and graduated as PhD at Algiers University with a research about Massinissa, called Aux origines de la Berbérie (To the origins of the Berbers).

Georges Cipriani

Arrested with his accomplices Jean-Marc Rouillan, Joëlle Aubron and Nathalie Ménigonin on 21 February 1987 on a farm in Vitry-aux-Loges (Loiret), Cipriani was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the assassinations of Engineer General René Audran and Georges Besse.

Guesch Patti

She then continued her dancing career, especially with the show entitled Elle sourit aux larmes, presented at the Theatre des Abbesses in 2001 in which she performed dances from various contemporary choreographers including Odile Duboc, Daniel Larrieu and another specially written for her by Dominique Mercy.

Gundulf of Rochester

He was a monk of St. Etienne in Caen before he came to England in 1070, as one of several clergy from Bec and St Etienne.

Heinrich Gustav Mühlenbeck

Heinrich Gustav Mühlenbeck, name also given as Henri Gustave Muehlenbeck (2 June 1798, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines – 21 November 1845, Mühlhausen) was an Alsatian physician and botanical collector known for his work with bryophytes.

Joëlle Aubron

Arrested with her comrades Jean-Marc Rouillan, Nathalie Ménigon and Georges Cipriani on 21 February 1987 on a farm in Vitry-aux-Loges (Loiret), she was sentenced in 1989 and 1994 to life in prison, with a minimum of 18 years.

Johann Wild

Niceron, Memoires pour servir a l'Historie des hommes illustres (Paris, 1729)

Kateb Yacine

He left for Vietnam in 1967, completely abandoning the novel and wrote 'L'Homme aux sandales de caoutchouc', a controversial play celebrating Ho Chi Minh that was published, performed and translated into Arabic in 1970.

L'Étanche Abbey, Lorraine

L'Étanche Abbey, Lorraine, is a former Premonstratensian monastery founded in the 12th century, the ruins of which are near the modern village of Deuxnouds-aux-Bois, in the commune of Lamorville, Meuse, France.

La fille aux cheveux de lin

Its text is the poem La fille aux cheveux de lin No. 4 of the Chansons écossaises (Scottish songs) from Charles Leconte de Lisle's Poemes antiques (Ancient poems), published by Alphonse Lemerre in Paris, 1874.

Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons

Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons ("Four Seasons Manor", aka Le Manoir) is a luxury hotel-restaurant in the village of Great Milton near Oxford, in Oxfordshire, England.

Les hommes qui passent

"Les Hommes qui passent" is a 1990 song recorded by the French singer Patricia Kaas.

Lisuart und Dariolette

The libretto was by Daniel Schiebeler based on La fée Urgèle ou Ce qui plaît aux dames by Charles Simon Favart, itself derived from The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Longpont Abbey

Longpont Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Longpont) was a Cistercian monastery, in present-day Longpont, Aisne, France.

Maurice Vaïsse

Vaïsse has, furthermore, sat on numerous peer committees, notably for Relations Internationales, Politique étrangère, Défense nationale, Cold War History Review, and the Retour aux textes collection of la Documentation française.

Monthyon

Residence of Eugène Boch, friend of Vincent van Gogh paint dans le portrait "le peintre aux etoiles".

MS Madeleine

The MS Madeleine is a car/passenger ferry owned and operated by C.T.M.A. between Souris and Cap-aux-Meules.

Outarde

Pointe-aux-Outardes, Quebec, is a municipality in Quebec on the north shore of the St Lawrence estuary, between the mouths of the Outardes and Manicouagan Rivers

Pierre le Vif

The Abbey of St. Pierre-le-Vif (Abbaye de Saint-Pierre-le-Vif) was a Roman Catholic monastery in Sens.

Prison de l'Abbaye

The abbaye dated to the earliest era of Paris, when Childebert I (on the site of a temple to Isis or Ceres according to legend) founded a monastery dedicated to the Holy Cross and to St Vincent of Saragossa, which later took the name of its administering bishop Germain of Paris.

Madame Roland, wife of the Girondin Minister of the Interior Jean-Marie Roland, was interned here on her first arrest in 1793 before being transferred to Sainte Pélagie.

Randol Abbey

Randol Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Randol) is a Benedictine monastery situated at Randol near the village of Saint-Saturnin, Puy-de-Dôme department, in the Auvergne mountains of France.

Raymond Lefèvre

In 2009, Slovak avant-garde drummer, Lucas Perny, remixed and recorded drums to Raymond Lefèvre's title song from the French 1981 movie comedy La Soupe Aux Choux (Cabbage soup).

Rudolf Ernst

Rudolf Ernst (14 February 1854, Vienna - 1932, Fontenay-aux-Roses) was an Austro-French painter, printmaker and ceramics painter who is best known for his orientalist motifs.

Rue de l'Abbaye

The abbot's garden also exists to this day and was the scene of one of the most sombre episodes of the French Revolution, the September Massacres of the 2nd to 5 September 1792.

Saint-Henri, Montreal

Well-known people from Saint-Henri include strongman Louis Cyr, who served as a police officer there; the Place des Hommes-Forts and the Parc Louis-Cyr are named for him.

Solesmes Abbey

Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes) is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes (Sarthe, France), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in the country under Dom Prosper Guéranger after the French Revolution.

Stogursey

To preserve the family's association with Normandy the priory was donated as a cell to the Benedictine Abbey of St Mary at Lonlay.

Thomas Alexander Irvine

1948 – transferred from the active duty list to the TA officers' reserve list and appointed commandant of the county cadets; thereafter chairman of T.A.F.A. (Territorial and Aux. Forces' Association) in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Tokamak de Fontenay aux Roses

The Tokamak de Fontenay-aux-Roses (TFR) was the first French tokamak, built in a research centre of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Fontenay-aux-Roses, a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France.

United States Coast Guard Auxiliary

The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary (USCG Aux) is the uniformed volunteer component of the United States Coast Guard ("USCG").


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