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unusual facts about Armand, duc d'Aiguillon


Duke d'Aiguillon

Armand, duc d'Aiguillon, member of the National Assembly and son of the former


Alexandre du Chayla

Count Armand Alexandre de Blanquet du Chayla (1885–1945) was a French nobleman who converted to Russian Orthodoxy.

Antoine Blanc

In 1827, Antoine Blanc, Armand Duplantier, Fulwar Skipwith, Thomas B. Robertson and Sebastien Hiriart received permission from the state legislature to organize a corporation called the Agricultural Society of Baton Rouge.

Anton del Rosario

In 2012, Del Rosario and his older brother, Armand joined TV5's The Amazing Race Philippines.

Armand de Brignac

An appearance in the Jay-Z music video of "Show Me What You Got" prior to the launch of the Armand de Brignac brand sparked wide discussion on sites covering hip-hop and popular culture, following his public fallout with the makers of Cristal.

Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu

After a short stay in Austria, however, Richelieu joined the counter-revolutionary émigré army of Louis XVI's cousin, the Prince de Condé, which was headquartered in the German frontier town of Coblenz.

Battle of Auberoche

Derby used this opportunity to seize more towns in the region including Montségur and conduct successful sieges against La Réole and Aiguillon, placing the region firmly in English hands.

Cardinal de Soubise

Cardinal François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris - 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a French prelate, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg.

Carol Lynley

Lynley may be best known for her film roles in Return to Peyton Place, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Bunny Lake is Missing, The Cardinal, Harlow, and the original The Poseidon Adventure, in which she performed the Oscar-winning song "The Morning After" (but her singing voice actually was that of studio singer, Renee Armand).

Carriage clock

The factory of Armand Couaillet, in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont (France) made thousand of carriage clocks between 1880 and 1920.

Chuck Versus the Push Mix

Volkoff mocks his attempt at revenge while managing to escape from his bonds, revealing that his men will execute Mary unless he says otherwise and an assassin, Armand (Igor Jijikine), has been sent to kill both Casey and Ellie.

Civil list of the July Monarchy

This law decreed that its amount be 12 million francs annually, along with 1 million annually for the King's eldest son, Prince Ferdinand Philippe, who was The Prince Royal and Duc d'Orléans.

Cloverdale, California

In 1881 a colony based on the French Utopian movement, the Icarians, named "Icaria Speranza" was established by Jules Leroux and Armand Dehay, south of Cloverdale.

Counts and Dukes of Châteauroux

After initially being awarded in 1616 by the head of the main branch of the Bourbon-Conde family, Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé, to his son Armand of Bourbon, it remained in the Armand line until its extinction in 1685, when it was passed along with the entirety of Armand's estate to his younger brother, François Louis de Bourbon.

Daniel Molloy

Armand, played by Matthew Newton, is seen at the rock concert and Sonoma house without Daniel.

Denis Gauthier

Gauthier's father, Denis Sr., was a professional wrestler, and his mother Diana is the sister of former wrestlers Jacques, Armand and Raymond Rougeau.

Duc d'Anville Expedition

On 10 September, lead elements of the expedition had arrived at Sable Island.

Dufaux 4

The Dufaux 4 was an experimental aircraft built in Switzerland in 1909 and which was originally constructed as an unnamed biplane, the third aircraft constructed by the brothers Armand and Henri Dufaux.

Eddie Noack

Eddie Noack (April 29, 1930 – February 5, 1978), was an American country and western singer, songwriter and music industry executive best known for his 1968 cover of Leon Payne's serial killer song Psycho, was born De Armand A. Noack, Jr. in Houston, Texas.

EFW N-20

The N-20 design was not produced, both the single Aiguillon and Arbalète airframes survive and are on public display at the Flieger-Flab-Museum, Dübendorf, the glider test aircraft was destroyed in an accident.

Elda Vokel

The Belasco and Curran show also featured Armand Kallz and Montagu Love.

Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia in Washington, D.C.

The embassy is used in the story Crossings by Danielle Steel, where the French ambassador to the United States Armand DeVilliers resides and is preparing to go back to France with his American-born wife Liane DeVilliers in June 1939.

French ship Richelieu

Four ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal and Duc de Richelieu, considered to be one of the founders of the French Navy.

Fresnoy-le-Grand

The cookware manufacturer Le Creuset is based in the town and was founded there in 1925 by Armand Desaegher and Octave Aubecq.

Granny's Funeral

After Granny's death, Armand, pharmacist in Chatou, France, has to deal with his father who has Alzheimers, his wife, Helen, who doesn't want to divorce and his very demanding mistress, Alix.

Guy Feutchine

Guy Armand Feutchine (born 18 November 1976 in Douala) is a Cameroonian footballer, who currently plays for Kallithea F.C.

Henri Pierre Armand Nnouck Minka

Henri Pierre Armand Nnouck Minka (born July 15, 1984 in Douala) is a professional Cameroonian footballer who plays for Douala Athletic Club.

Holy Innocents' Cemetery

In Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat, Armand's coven of vampires resides in the Cimetière des Innocents when Lestat first encounters them, and they remain there until shortly before the Cemetery is finally destroyed.

Honoré Armand de Villars

Don Honoré Armand de Villars, 2e duc de Villars (4 October 1702, Paris - May 1770, Aix), Duke and Peer of France, Prince of Martigues, Grandee of Spain, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Viscount of Melun, Marquis of la Melle, Count of Rochemiley, was a French nobleman, soldier and politician.

Ivan Martos

His later outdoor sculptures - those of Duke de Richelieu above the Potemkin Stairs in Odessa, Prince Potemkin in Kherson, Alexander I in Taganrog, and Mikhail Lomonosov in Kholmogory - became the symbols of those towns, although modern art critics often compare them unfavorably with his earlier, less bombastic works.

Jacques Bergerac

He then went on to appear as Armand Duval in a television production of Camille for Kraft Television Theatre, opposite Signe Hasso.

Jeanne Lanvin

In 1922, Lanvin collaborated with celebrated French designer Armand-Albert Rateau in redesigning her apartment, her homes and her businesses.

Jules, 1st Duke of Polignac

Born at Claye-Souilly to Louis Héracle Armand de Polignac, Marquis of Mancini and his wife, Diane Adélaide Zéphirine Mancini herself a granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers and the Duke of Noailles.

Laura Margherita Mazzarini

Her brother managed to find good matches for the Martinozzis: Laura was married to Alfonso IV d'Este; Anna Maria to Armand, Prince of Conti.

Law of the Wild

The Law of the Wild, a 1934 American Mascot movie serial directed by B. Reeves Eason and Armand Schaefer

Margareta Fouché

The daughter of Charles Louis Fouché, 4th duc d'Otrante (a descendant of Napoleonic statesman Joseph Fouché), and his first wife, Countess Hedvig Ingeborg Madeleine Douglas (a descendant of Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden), she was born Margareta Fouché d'Otrante in Elghammar, Sweden.

Martial Joseph Armand Herman

Martial Joseph Armand Herman (August 29, 1749, Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise – May 7, 1795, Paris) (guillotined), was a politician of the French Revolution, and temporary French Foreign Minister.

Maupeou Triumvirate

Maupeou became Keeper of the Seals, Joseph Marie Terray became Controller-General of Finances, and the Duc d'Aiguillon became foreign minister.

Philippe de Vitry

In addition to all this, he was a diplomat and a soldier, known to have served at the siege of Aiguillon in 1346.

Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford

Further battles included the battle of Auberoche, the siege of Aiguillon, from where he escaped prior to its lifting, a raid on Barfleur and the English victory at the Battle of Crecy, on 26 August 1346.

San Francisco Ballet School

A native of Marseille, France, Armand studied at the Ecole de Danse de Marseille and won the Prix de Lausanne in 1980.

Sister Kate

"I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate", a song and tune published by Clarence Williams and Armand Piron in 1919.

Sniper Twins

Barry Adam Flanagan and Dax Armand Martinez-Vargas attended film school at University of Texas where they created the sketch comedy show Nothing Liquid with friends Jeff Bevill and Brandon Wilde which screened at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

Tambor-class submarine

In the fall of 1937 a proposal for a true fleet submarine (a submarine intended to operate as part of a larger fleet) was finally put forward by the team of officers put together by then Commander Charles A. Lockwood (later admiral and Commander Submarine Fleet Pacific), Lt. Cmdr. Andrew I. McKee, planning officer at Portsmouth Navy Yard, and Lt. Armand M. Morgan, head of the Navy's submarine design section.

Terrible Trio

In Batman: The Animated Series, the Terrible Trio are bored, rich men versions of Warren Lawford (voiced by Bill Mumy), Armand Lydecker (voiced by David Jolliffe), and Gunther Hardwick (voiced by Peter Scolari).

The Fortune Hunter

In Monte Carlo at the Duchess's villa, six months later, Euphemia decides to leave the Duke and return to America to marry Armand.

Tops Friendly Markets

Tops Friendly Markets was co-founded by Armand Castellani, who was born in 1917 in a village outside of Rome, Italy.

Wayne Massarelli

Wayne Armand Massarelli (August 30, 1949 – July 13, 2012) was an American make-up artist whose film credits included My Fellow Americans, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, These Old Broads and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.


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