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9 unusual facts about Annecy


ASIFA-Hollywood

Many branches of ASIFA exist throughout the world; in the US there are chapters in San Francisco, New York City, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington, the Detroit area, and others, while internationally, organizations exist in Annecy, France, in Italy, and Japan.

Battle of Méribel

A much larger force of Savoyards, conducted by the Royalist camp attacked the French Army, and reconquered the Alpine valleys and Annecy.

Château de Chillon

It was made popular by Lord Byron, who wrote the poem The Prisoner Of Chillon (1816) about François de Bonivard, a Genevois monk and politician who was imprisoned there from 1530 to 1536; Byron also carved his name on a pillar of the dungeon.

Françoise-Louise de Warens

She was born in Vevey, into a Swiss Protestant family who had immigrated to Annecy, but became a Roman Catholic in 1726 to receive a church pension which had been instated to increase the spread of Roman Catholicism near Geneva, then a bastion of Protestantism.

Lone Sausage

Their short films show up annually at the San Diego Comic-Con with Spike & Mike, and at film festivals such as Sundance and Annecy.

MicroVAX

Mira referred to a fault-tolerant configuration of the MicroVAX II developed by DEC's European Centre for Special Systems located in Annecy in France.

Patrick Jenkins

His film The Skateboarder premiered at the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival and was shown at the 2005 Ottawa International Animation Festival and the prestigious 2006 Annecy International Animation Film Festival (Festival International du Film d'Animation d'Annecy) in Annecy, France.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Annecy

The relics of these saints are preserved in the Church of the Visitation at Annecy.

The Verdin Company

The World Peace Bell in Newport, Kentucky, United States (33,285 kg / 73,381 lbs. with a width of 12 feet / 3.7 m); it was cast in 1999 under Verdin's direction by the Paccard Foundry near Annecy, France.


2009–10 FFHG Division 1 season

The Chevaliers du Lac d’Annecy and the Galaxians d’Amnéville were relegated to FFHG Division 2.

Carmen D'Avino

His films were shown and awarded honors at film festivals in New York, San Francisco, Montevideo, Uruguay; London, England; Oberhausen, Germany; Annecy, France; Mamaia, Rumania; Kraków, Poland; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Melbourne, Australia.

CEVA rail

It will link the CFF route Lausanne – Geneva Cornavin – Geneva Airport and the SNCF route Geneva Cornavin – Bellegarde-sur-Valserine – Lyon with lines in the Haute Savoie serving Thonon-les-Bains, Évian-les-Bains, the valley of the Arve to St Gervais and Chamonix and from Annemasse to Annecy.

Critérium du Dauphiné

The cities that have hosted a start or finish most often are: Grenoble (44 times), Avignon (32 times), Saint-Étienne (23 times), Annecy (22 times), Chambéry (21 times), Gap (21 times), Lyon (19 times), Aix-les-Bains (18 times), Valence (16 times), Briançon (15 times) and Vals-les-Bains (15 times).

Dents de Lanfon

Situated beneath Talloires on the east bank of Lac d'Annecy in Haute-Savoie, they are framed by mount Veyrier (1,291 m) in the north, and by La Tournette (2,351 m) in the south.

Gault Millau

In 2004, two restaurants, both of chef Marc Veyrat, the Maison de Marc Veyrat (or L'Auberge de l'Eridan) in Veyrier-du-Lac near Annecy and La Ferme de Mon Père ("My Father's Farm") in Megève, received this score.

Jacek Kurzawiński

Next season he was player-coach in Annecy (5th place in second league) and change employment to AL Caudry in season 2007/2008.

Maquis des Glières

On January 31, 1944, Lieutenant Tom Morel, a Chasseur alpin from the 27th chasseurs alpins battalion (mountain light infantry) in Annecy, was commissioned to collect parachute drops from the Royal Air Force with a hundred men.

Patrice Guers

Patrice Guers (born 5 September 1969 in Annecy, Haute-Savoie) is the former bassist of the Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire.

Prescott Wright

Prescott served as an advisor to major animation festivals around the world, and regularly attended the ASIFA-sponsored festivals in Annecy, France, and Zagreb, (then in Yugoslavia).

Robert A. Taft Memorial

The twenty-seven bells in the upper part of the tower were cast in the Paccard Foundry in Annecy-le-Vieux, France.

Roman Abelevich Kachanov

In 1959 he directed Nazim Hikmet's screenplay in Love Cloud, which received awards at festivals in Annecy, Oberhausen and Bucharest.

Salomon Snowboards

Marketing for Salomon Snowboards is based in Portland, Oregon, near Mt. Hood, while design and development takes place at the base of the French Alps, in Annecy, France.

Signe Baumane

Her films have been screened at important film festivals such as Annecy, Tribeca, Sundance, Berlin, Ottawa, Venice and they have received numerous awards.

SNCF Class BB 20004

This was however no real problem, as these locomotives operated only on Aix-les-Bains - Annecy and only needed the 1.5kV DC to pull trains into the station of Aix-les-Bains or to drive to their depot in Chambéry.

Virotutis

Apollo Virotutis was worshipped at, among other places, Fins d'Annecy (Haute-Savoie) and at Jublains (Maine-et-Loire).


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