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unusual facts about Alpes Maritimes


Alpes Maritimes' 9th constituency

The 9th constituency of Alpes-Maritimes is a French legislative constituency represented in the XIIIth legislature by Michèle Tabarot of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).


Gale Sieveking

Gale de Giberne Sieveking was born on August 26, 1925 in Cagnes-sur-Mer in the Alpes Maritimes, France.

Jérôme Rivière

He represented Alpes Maritimes' 1st constituency from 2002 to 2007 as a member of the UMP, part first of The Free Right faction and then the National Centre of Independents and Peasants, a party formerly affiliated with the UMP.


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Auribeau-sur-Siagne

The Roman army defeated the Ligurian tribes in 155BC, but it was only after the victory of the emperor Auguste in 14 BC that Rome was able to continue the Via Aurelia as the Via Julia Augusta within Alpes-Maritimes along the Mediterranean coast up to Arles.

Berre

Berre-les-Alpes, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France

Bonson

Bonson, Alpes-Maritimes, a commune in the department of Alpes-Maritimes, France

Camille Sauvageau

Sur le dévelopement de quelques phéosporées ; Sur quelques algues phéosporées de la rade de Villefranche (Alpes-Maritimes) ; Sur quelques algues phéosporées de Guéthary (Basses-Pyrénées), 1929 - On the development of some phaeospores, etc.

Cedres

Jardin botanique "Les Cèdres", often called simply Les Cèdres or the Jardin de la villa "Les Cèdres", is a private botanical garden in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Contes

Contes, Alpes-Maritimes, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in France

French Senate election, 2008

They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

Grotte du Vallonnet

The cave of Vallonnet is located on the western slope of Cap Martin, about 800 metres above the Bay of Menton, at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the Alpes-Maritimes Department in France.

James Henry Bennett

Menton was connected by rail to Paris in 1869, which greatly increased the Alpes-Maritimes popularity as a destination for visitors.

Jean-Baptiste Sipido

Sipido ended his working life as technical and commercial director of the General Society of Belgian Socialist Cooperatives, later retiring to Cagnes in the Department of Alpes-Maritimes in France.

Ligurian Alps

Administratively the range is divided between the Italian provinces of Cuneo, Imperia and Savona and the French department of Alpes-Maritimes (south-western slopes).

Lucien Callamand

Lucien Callamand born Lucien Marie Pascal Eugène Callamand (April 1, 1888 in Marseille - December 3, 1968 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes) was one of the earliest French film actors whose career transcended 6 decades of French cinema.

Luigi Guardigli

He collaborated also on the mosaic for the façade of the Musée national Fernand Léger in Biot (Alpes-Maritimes).

Prince Eugen of Bavaria

Prince Eugen of Bavaria died on 1 January 1997 at Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France.

Punta Marguareis

Administratively the Marguareis is divided between the Italian region of Piemonte (province: Cuneo) and the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (department: Alpes-Maritimes).

Stanton Davis Kirkham

He was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, the only child of Major Murray S. Davis (Commander, 8th Calvalry, Troop A, Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada, 1867) and Julia Edith Kirkham Davis, daughter of Gen. Ralph Wilson Kirkham, Union Army general, who adopted Kirkham and brought him to the United States.

Stéphane Diagana

On 21 Jan 2011, Diagana was seriously injured in road accident while he was cycling along a road of the Col de Vence in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in southeast France.

Tournefort

Tournefort, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département, in France

William Chawner

William Chawner (born February 1848 at Macclesfield, Cheshire, died 29 March 1911, at Vence, Alpes Maritimes) was an educational reformer and the first layman to be appointed as Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.