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unusual facts about Anjou, Isère



Anthon

Anthon, Isère, a commune of the Isère département, in France

Aoste, Isère

The pork products produced in Isère department and especially the Jambon Aoste (Aoste Ham) are manufactured exclusively in this Groupe Aoste factory which was owned by the industrial group Sara Lee Corporation who ceased their activities in deli products and resold the operation to the American buyer Smithfield Foods through which it passed to the Chinese group Shuanghui in September 2013.

Artas

Artas, Isère, a commune of the Isère département, in France

Battle of Al Mansurah

The ships of the Seventh Crusade sailed from the French ports of Aigues-Mortes and Marseille to Cyprus during the autumn of 1248, then in 1249 sailed toward Egypt, led by King Louis's brothers, Charles d'Anjou and Robert d'Artois.

Bernard of Vienne

Towards the end of his life, he enjoyed retiring to a spot on the banks of the Isere River, where the town of Romans is today.

Chanas

Chanas, Isère, a commune of the Isère département, in France

Charles d'Orléans

Prince Charles Philippe, Duke of Anjou, Duke of Anjou (b. 1973) son of Prince Michel, Count of Evreux

Charles IV, Duke of Anjou

Charles IV, Duke of Anjou, also Charles of Maine, Count of Le Maine and Guise (1446–1481) was the son of the Angevin prince Charles of Le Maine, Count of Maine, who was the youngest son of Louis II of Anjou and Yolande of Aragon, Queen of Four Kingdoms.

Conan II, Duke of Brittany

In the history of conflicts between Brittany and Anjou, Pouancé had served as the "Breton March" or border town.

County of Flanders

The region comprising future Flanders was, from an economic point of view, a flourishing region, with a series of ports along the Scheldt river: Ghent, Tournai, Valenciennes, Cambrai and Lambres at Douai on the Scarpe and a number of seaports: Quentovic, Boulogne and Isère portus, a port at the mouth of the Yser.

Coupe Icare

Coupe Icare (Icarus Cup) is an annual festival of free flight held between Saint-Hilaire (on the border of Chartreuse Mountains) and Lumbin (in the valley of Isère in France).

François Racine de Monville

He was also noted for originality as an architect, designing two town houses, the Grand and Petit Hotel de Monville, which were built by architect Étienne-Louis Boullée in Paris at the corner of the rue d'Anjou and rue Saint-Honoré in Paris.

Franz Heinzer

Heinzer won at the world's most famous downhill venues: Kitzbühel (3x), Wengen, Val Gardena (2x), Garmisch, Val-d'Isère, Aspen, Lake Louise, and St. Anton.

Gahmuret

Anjou, a former county centered on the city of Angers in the Loire Valley of western France, is the area that would have comprised the realm of his family, but more information is unknown.

Geoffrey Plantagenet

Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113–1151), Count of Anjou, father of Henry II of England and the first to be known as Plantagenet

Gerard Lally

At Romans on the 18 April 1701 he married Anne-Marie, the daughter of Charles Jacques de Bressac, seigneur de La Vache; they had a son Thomas Arthur Lally.

Grand Pic de Belledonne

Situated in the French department of Isère, the Grand Pic of Belledonne dominates the valley of Grésivaudan and partners the Pic Central of Belledonne and the Croix de Belledonne.

Grenoble Archaeological Museum

Grenoble Archaeological Museum is a museum located on the historic site of Saint-Laurent in Grenoble, between the river Isère and the hill of the Bastille.

Hamilton Bible

The Hamilton Bible (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett 78 E 3) is a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript Bible, commissioned by the Angevin court in Naples and illustrated by the workshop of Cristoforo Orimina around 1350.

Henri, Duke of Montpensier

Henri was born at Mézières, the son of François de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier, and of his wife Renée d'Anjou, marquise de Mézières.

House of Anjou

The House of Plantagenet, the continuation of the senior line of the House of Anjou as Kings of England during the High and Late Middle Ages

Hugh of Châteauneuf

Born at Châteauneuf-sur-Isère, France, Hugh showed piety and theological facility from a young age.

Isère

In 1967 the redrawing of local government borders led to the creation of the Urban Community of Lyon (more recently known simply as Greater Lyon / Grand Lyon).

Jean-Pierre-André Amar

In 1790, Amar was elected vice-president of the Grenoble directory, and became a deputy to the National Convention for the département of Isère, and joined The Mountain, voting in favor of Louis XVI's execution during his trial.

Jimmy Cochran

Cochran's best Olympic finish was 12th in the slalom in 2006, and his best result at the world championships was tenth in the slalom at Val d'Isère in 2009.

Kingdom of Albania

After the failure of the Eighth Crusade, Charles of Anjou returned his attention to Albania.

Lagrivea

The remains of Lagrivea were probably collected by Viret at the site La Grive L5 in the village of Saint-Alban-de-Roche, department of Isère, southeastern France.

Lara Gut

At the 2009 World Championships at Val d'Isère, France, Gut won silver medals in the downhill and the super combined, more than two months before her 18th birthday.

Maurienne

The A43 autoroute and a railway line enter at the western end from the Isère valley, and leave at Modane using the Fréjus Road and Rail Tunnels respectively which both emerge at Bardonecchia in Italy.

Nadia Fanchini

She won a bronze medal in the downhill at the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isère, France, and a silver medal in the downhill at the 2013 World Championships in Schladming, Austria.

Nora Fries

During a later appearance, D'Anjou is abducted by Grant Walker — a man who had forced Freeze to subject him to the same treatments as he had undergone — to research a cure for his condition, forcing Nightwing and Batgirl to team up with Mr. Freeze to stop Walker after Batman is incapacitated.

Ogier of Savoy

In 1355 he received the castellany of Conflans, which controlled the valleys of the Arly and Isère, which valleys he continued to command for the rest of his career.

Paul Barril

Paul Barril (13 April 1946 in Vinay, Isère) is a former officer of the French Gendarmerie Nationale.

Peloursin

Ampelographers believe that Peloursin originated in the Isère department near Grenoble somewhere along the Vallée du Grésivaudan.

Pope Boniface IX

Boniface IX saw to it that Ladislaus was crowned King of Naples at Gaeta on 29 May 1390 and worked with him for the next decade to expel the Angevin forces from southern Italy.

Potentilla delphinensis

It is endemic to France, where it is limited to the southern French Alps (Savoie et Dauphiné: Bauges; Isère; Hautes-Alpes, Col du Lautaret).

Saint Peter's Fair

His cousin, the surviving legitimate child of the prior King Henry, Empress Maud is in Anjou attempting to build support for her invasion, aided in England by her half-brother Robert of Gloucester.

Saint-Alban Nuclear Power Plant

The Saint-Alban nuclear power plant is located on the Rhone river, in the Isere department 50 km downstream from Lyon in the communes of Saint-Alban-du-Rhône and Saint-Maurice-l'Exil.

Soleto

In the 13th century the Angevine rules of Naples chose the city a capital of a county, ruled by the di Castro, Del Balzo, Orsini, Campofregoso, Castriota and Sanseverino, Carafa and Gallarati-Scotti families, until feudalism was abrogated in 1806.

Stephen of Autun

at Baugé (hence in Anjou; d. at the abbey of Cluny in 1139 or early in 1140), surnamed Blagiacus or de Balgiaco, was a French liturgical writer and bishop of Autun.

Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally

He was born at Romans-sur-Isère, Dauphiné, the son of Sir Gerald Lally, an Irish Jacobite from Tuam, County Galway, who married a French lady of noble family, from whom the son inherited his titles.

Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche

In 1421, he accompanied the king's younger brother Thomas of Lancaster to the fighting in Anjou.

Thomas Courtenay, 6th Earl of Devon

Courtenay married, at Coventry, Warwickshire, shortly after 9 September 1456, Mary of Anjou, illegitimate daughter of Charles, Count of Maine.

Tiburzio di Maso

In the tumultuous atmosphere of the revolt against Ferrante, the Aragonese King of Naples by the local lords who supported the claims of the House of Anjou, which broke out anew in 1460, Francesco Sforza had induced the Pope, Pius II to support Ferrante in the Neapolitan War of 1460-61.

Tignes

After the second world war, France needed electricity and it was decided to build the hydro-electric Tignes Dam in the Isère valley.

TRIGA

Since then, TRIGA fuel assemblies have been manufactured at CERCA's plant in Romans-sur-Isère, France.

Union Sportive Romanaise et Péageoise

L’Union sportive romanaise and péageoise is a French rugby union club based in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme).

Villaroger

The commune of Villaroger extends from 850m at the river Isère up to 3779m at the Mont Pourri.


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