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unusual facts about Annecy-le-Vieux



2009–10 FFHG Division 1 season

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

André Gagnon

André Gagnon has also composed music for many artists, such as Diane Dufresne (Le 304), Renée Claude (Je suis une femme d'aujourd'hui, Ballade pour mes vieux jours) and Nicole Martin (Mannequin).

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.

Beatrice of Bâgé

They took residency near Chambéry-Le-Vieux at the Chateau de Candie by the L’ombre Paradise; He died two years later.

Beaucamps-le-Vieux

Humboldt the Old (Fr: Humbaud le Vieux, Latin: Humbaldus Vetulus ou Veteris) Lord of Beaucamps, was a knight descendent of the "le Vieux d’Yvetot" a Normand family of French-Danish origins.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gare de Longuerue-Vieux-Manoir

The Gare de Longuerue-Vieux-Manoir (Longuerue-Vieux-Manoir station) is a railway station located in the commune of Vieux-Manoir in the Seine-Maritime department, France, near Longuerue.

Hakimakli

He is regularly featured in electro house events, public shows and festivals like Fête de la Musique and Blueu sur le Vieux Port (Marseille) amongst others and at the radio station's very popular Podium FG at "Marche des fiertés" the Paris Gay Pride event at Place de la Bastille.

History of American comics

In fact, in 1842, the publication Les amours de M. Vieux-bois by Rodolphe Töpffer was published under the title The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck.

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.

Les Hôpitaux-Vieux

The village did not have its own church until 1664, but was dependent on the parish of Saint-Maurice.

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.

Louis Poterat

His first great successes dated to the end of the 1930s, and were his adaptations of foreign-language songs into French (J'attendrai, to music by the Italian composer Dino Olivieri, in 1938, sung by Rina Ketty ; Sur les quais du vieux Paris, to music by the German composer Ralph Erwin, the first success of the singer Lucienne Delyle, in 1939).

Maillezais Cathedral

In 1010, Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux transferred to St. Peter Maillezais.

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.

Marseille tramway

It will then run along new track west to Quatre Septembre on the south side of the Vieux-Port.

Maurice Vieux

Maurice Edgard Vieux (April 14, 1884 at Savy-Berlette near Valenciennes – April 28, 1951 in Paris) was a French violist whose teaching at the Conservatoire de Paris plays a key role in the history of the viola in France.

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.

MTY Food Group

They are Thaï Express, Country Style, Groupe Valentine, Vanelli's, Cultures, La Cremiere, Sushi Shop, Veggirama, Caferama, O'burger, Tiki Ming, Vie & Nam, Au Vieux Duluth Express, FrankxSupreme, ChicknChick, Croissant Plus, Koya Japan, Kim Chi, Panini, Tandori, Tutti Frutti, Villa Madina Mediterranean Cuisine, Sukiyaki, and the Canadian branches of Yogen Früz, Taco Time, and TCBY.

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.

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.

Paul Bisciglia

During the sixties, Bisciglia began to appear more frequently in television series and television films, although he was included in many films such as The Wretches, with Michèle Morgan, Les vieux de la vieille, with Pierre Fresnay, Paris nous appartient, Le signe du lion, and in 1966, he appeared in his first leading role in Alain Cuniot's L'or et le plomb.

Pierre Lapointe

2004: Varied artists, Un dimanche à Kyoto, songs, tales and nursery rhymes by Gilles Vigneault: La Petite Adèle, La Petite Annette, C'est le vieux Pipo, Comptine en mode zen (with Ariane Moffatt, Garou, Luce Dufault, Luc De Larochellière, Martin Léon and Jessica Vigneault)

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).

Richard Alfieri

As an actor, he starred on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carre, and off-Broadway in Awake and Sing, and The Justice Box.

Roman Abelevich Kachanov

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

Roman Catholic Diocese of Annecy

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

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.

Savigny Abbey

Savigny Abbey (Abbaye de Savigny) was a monastery near the village of Savigny-le-Vieux (Manche), in northern 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.

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.

Veratalpa

Veratalpa is known only from the locality of Vieux Collonges near Lyon in southeastern France; Ameghino knew this locality as "Mont-Ceindre".

Vieux Luxembourg

For Villeroy & Boch, that step was the establishment of a pottery in Audun-le-Tiche, Lorraine on April 1st, 1748 their first pattern, Vieux Luxembourg.

Virotutis

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

Y'a ben du changement

# "2033 (Le Manifeste d'un vieux chasseur d'oïes)" (2033 Manifesto of an Old Goose Hunter), – 4:10

Ziad Hamzeh

He directed and or produced over sixty major award winning stage productions, among them Roxy Ventola’s After The Bomb, Brecht’s Baal, Sam Shepard’s True West, Arrabel’s Car Cemetery, Hamlet, Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carre, Nicholas Kazan’s Blood Moon, Poor Murderer, The Architect and Empress of Assyria, Cinders, Low Level Panic, and Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi.


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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.