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unusual facts about Adrien-Nicolas Piédefer, marquis de La Salle



Achille Marie Joseph Glorieux

His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 9 November 1969, the principal consecrator was Jean-Marie Villot, Cardinal Secretary of State, and the principal co-consecrators were Alberto Castelli, Titular Archbishop of Rhusium and Adrien-Edmond-Maurice Gand, Bishop of Lille.

Adrien Broner vs. Marcos Maidana

"Adrien Broner vs. Marcos Maidana" was a boxing match between American Adrien Broner and Argentine Marcos Maidana.

Adrien d'Épinay

He married Marguerite Le Breton de la Vieuville on 14 April 1817 in Flacq, and was the father of the sculptor Prosper d'Épinay (1836–1914), whose greatest work was undoubtedly the bronze statue of Adrien d'Épinay, unveiled on 26 September 1866 in the French East India Company garden at Port-Louis.

Adrien de Gerlache

Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (2 August 1866 – 4 December 1934) was an officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.

Adrien Greslon

Adrien Greslon (b. at Périgueux, in 1618; d. in 1697) was a French Jesuit missionary to China.

Adrien Lavieille

Adrien Lavieille (March 29, 1848, Montmartre – February 5, 1920, Chartres) was a French painter.

Adrien Sibomana

Adrien Sibomana (born Bukeye, Muramvya September 4, 1953) was the prime minister of Burundi from October 19, 1988 until July 10, 1993.

Adrien Tixier

Adrien Tixier (31 January 1893, Folles (Haute-Vienne) – 18 February 1946, Paris) was a French politician, diplomat, and Free French ambassador to the United States.

Adrien-François Servais

He is one of the founders of the Modern Cellistic Schools of Paris and Madrid, which began with his friend Auguste Franchomme and his disciple Víctor Mirecki Larramat.

Adrien-Jean-Pierre Thilorier

The French positivist Auguste Comte was so impressed by Thilorier's investigations of gases that he devoted the twentieth day of the ninth month of his positivist calendar to British chemist John Dalton -- and to Thilorier.

Adrien-Louis de Bonnières, duc de Guînes

His affair with Lady Elizabeth Craven was overlooked, in part because of her beauty and charm.

Adrien-Nicolas Piédefer, marquis de La Salle

Adrien-Nicolas Piédefer, marquis de La Salle, comte d'Offrémont (1735–1818) was a French writer and cavalry officer who saw service in the Seven Years' War, a writer of comedies and libretti, and a Masonic brother of Benjamin Franklin.

Adrien, Count of Rougé

Adrien Gabriel Victurnien, Count de Rougé, (2 July 1782 Everly – 16 June 1838 Guyencourt) was a French statesman, distinguished soldier, and Peer of France.

Anne Pierre Adrien, duc de Montmorency-Laval

Anne Pierre Adrien de Montmorency, Duc de Laval peer of France, Knight of the King's orders and the Golden Fleece, Knight of Saint Louis, Grandee of Spain (October 29, 1768 Paris - June 16, 1837) was a French foreign Minister.

Barbara von Krüdener

In 1812 she was at Strassburg, whence she paid more than one visit to J. F. Oberlin, the famous pastor of Waldbach in Steinthal (Ban de la Roche), and where she had the glory of converting her host, Adrien de Lazay-Marnesia, the prefect.

Calculus of variations

Lagrange contributed extensively to the theory, and Legendre (1786) laid down a method, not entirely satisfactory, for the discrimination of maxima and minima.

Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception

This congregation was founded at Saint-Claude, in the Department of Jura, by Adrien Gréa, then a secular priest and the young Vicar General of the Diocese of St.-Claude, a position he had accepted in 1863 at the bishop's urging, despite his feeling called to life in a religious community.

Château de Rambures

Adrien ( - 1405), son of the preceding, captain of Boulogne and Gravelines, Governor of West Flanders; he married Jeanne de Bernuy; he died with his father at the Château de Mercq.

Chess puzzle

Many famous mathematicians have studied such problems, including Euler, Legendre, and Gauss.

Convex conjugate

It is also known as Legendre–Fenchel transformation or Fenchel transformation (after Adrien-Marie Legendre and Werner Fenchel).

Dettingen Te Deum

On 27 June 1743, the British army and its allies, under the command of King George II and Lord Stair, won a victory at the Battle of Dettingen, over the French army, commanded by the Maréchal de Noailles and the Duc de Grammont.

Émilien Dumas

Embarking on a career in the sciences, he went to Paris and studied at the Collège de France, the Ecole des Mines de Paris and the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, and with Georges Cuvier, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Adrien-Henri de Jussieu.

Eugène Green

2003 : Le Monde vivant; Christelle Prot, Adrien Michaux, Alexis Loret, Laurène Cheilan, Achille Trocellier, Marin Charvet, seen at the 2004 edition of Bafici

Fort Conde

After Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville moved Mobile downriver in May 1711 (following the death of his brother D'Iberville in 1706), he planned the next capital city (after 1718) to be on the Mississippi River, in similar fashion to being on the Mobile River, and so Adrien de Pauger also designed the Vieux Carré in New Orleans, Louisiana, which was built from 1719-1722.

François-Adrien Boieldieu

Born under the Ancien Régime in Rouen, Adrien Boieldieu received his musical education first from the choirmaster and then from the organist of the local cathedral.

Georges Darien

Georges-Hippolyte Adrien was born at 46, Rue du Bac in Paris, to linen draper Honoré-Charles-Emile Adrien, born in 1822 in the Charente, and Françoise-Sidonie Adrien, née Chatel.

Högna Sigurðardóttir

In 1967, together with the French architect Adrien Fainsilber, Högna Sigurðardóttir won the first prize for designing a large-scale university development at Villetaneuse in the northern suburbs of Paris.

Jadranko

Therefore it is closely related to Adrian and its variants (such as Adriaan, Adriano, Adrien, etc.) and Hadrian.

Jean Philippe d'Orléans

Amable Angélique was the daughter of Amable Gabrielle de Noailles (18 February 1706 - 16 September 1742) who was in turn the daughter of Adrien Maurice de Noialles and Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon.

John Edward McCullough

According to an episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories ("D.B. Sweeney, Adrien Zmed, Eddie Money, DJ Nicole Leone"), John Edward McCullough's ghost is responsible for breaking the ankle of Adrian Zmed during a Broadway production of Grease.

Julien-Léopold Boilly

Julien-Léopold Boilly (30 August 1796, Paris – 14 June 1874), also known as Jules Boilly, was a French artist noted for his 1820 booklet Album de 73 Portraits-Charge Aquarelle’s des Membres de I’Institute containing watercolor caricatures of seventy-three famous mathematicians, in particular French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre, the only known portrait of him.

La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial

The memorial was built on land given by Adrien Fizeau, former mayor of Jouarre, in memory of his father Hippolyte Fizeau (1819–1896), a member of the French Institute and a member of the Royal Society.

Louis Henri, Prince of Condé

After the Bourbon Restoration in 1815, Louis Henri brought her to Paris and arranged a marriage for her to Baron Adrien Victor de Feucheres, an officer in the royal guard.

Mathematical chess problem

Many famous mathematicians studied mathematical chess problems, for example, Euler, Legendre and Gauss.

Moira Lister

In 1951, Moira Lister married Jacques de Gachassin-Lafite Vicomte d’Orthez, a French officer of the Spahis, owner of a champagne vineyard and hero of the Rif War; they had two daughters, Chantal and Christobel.

Multipole expansion

Its disadvantage is that the derivations are fairly cumbersome (in fact a large part of it is the implicit rederivation of the Legendre expansion of 1/"?title=Adrien-Marie Legendre">Legendre in the 1780s).

Neil Lawson Baker

His artistic passion was helped by meeting Adrien Maeght, the famous French art gallery and museum owner, who happened to be competing alongside Neil in the Paris – Nice vintage car rally in 1970 (Neil was a keen competitions driver in vintage cars).

Omar Figueroa

Omar Figueroa is the current World Boxing Council Lightweight world title holder, after Adrien Broner was stripped.

Parity of zero

Before the 20th century, definitions of primality were inconsistent, and significant mathematicians such as Goldbach, Lambert, Legendre, Cayley, and Kronecker wrote that 1 was prime.

Tarzan Tyler

Tarzan Tyler died, along with fellow wrestler Pierre 'Mad Dog' Lefebvre and referee Adrien Desbois, in Laurentides Wildlife Reserve upon returning from a wrestling event in Chicoutimi, Quebec on December 24, 1985, in a car crash.


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