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unusual facts about Armentières-en-Brie


Augustin Dupré

Augustin Dupré (6 October 1748, Saint-Étienne - 30 January 1833, Armentières-en-Brie) was an engraver of French currency and medals, the 14th Graveur général des monnaies (Engraver General of Currency).


Alicia Fox

On the special Old School edition of Raw on January 8, Fox teamed with Aksana against The Bella Twins in winning effort with Aksana pinning Brie Bella.

Bierville Elegies

Once Riba and his family embarked on the path of exile in France at the end of the Spanish Civil War, they settled in the castle of Roissy-en-Brie and there began to be created what were later to become the Elegies.

Brie

Camembert is a similar soft cheese, also made from cow's milk.

Despite the variety of bries, the French government officially certifies only two types of cheese to be sold under that name: Brie de Meaux and Brie de Melun.

Casomorphin

β-casomorphins are found in cheeses made from bovine milk; their concentrations are higher in mould cheeses (e.g. Brie, Rokpol) than in semi-hard cheeses (e.g. Edam, Gouda and Kasztelan).

Cecil McVilly

At the beginning of 1917, he was training raiding parties at the Ecole Professionale, Armentières.

Chappe et Gessalin

Chappe et Gessalin (CG) was a French automobile maker founded in 1946 which commenced manufacturing complete cars in Brie-Comte-Robert, Seine-et Marne in 1957.

Charles Étienne Louis Camus

Charles Étienne Louis Camus (25 August 1699 – 2 February 1768), was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Crécy-en-Brie, near Meaux.

Château de Condé

Since the time of pre-Roman civilisation, the village of Condé-en-Brie was inhabited.

The Château de Condé is a private estate in Condé-en-Brie, Aisne, France, set in its park with three-hundred-year-old trees, on the Champagne route and 100 km from Paris.

Denzil Meuli

He also held chaplaincies in several parishes in France (including Neuilly-sur-Seine, Charleville-Mezieres, Armentieres and at the Walburgeschule in Menden, Germany) while collecting material for his doctorate.

Germain Doucet

According to F. René Perron of Sèvres, Germain Doucet is from La Verdure, which is 10 kilometres north of Coutran, in the Bassevelle parish, which is in Champagne Brie.

Gunbar, New South Wales

  William Jackson was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916 for selfless courage under heavy fire while rescuing his comrades near Armentières in France during World War I.

Guy Gaucher

Guy Gaucher, born 5 March 1930, Tournan-en-Brie, is a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite religious.

Houssaye

La Houssaye-en-Brie, a commune in the Seine et Marne department in the great east of Paris

Isabella, Countess of Brienne

The impoverished family was not able to provide better, and Isabella married a Walloon knight, Walter III of Enghien, whose lordships in and around the Hainaut were not unsubstantial (Condé, Enghien).

Jacques Champion de Chambonnières

Chambonnières's financial situation probably ceased to be stable already in the early 1650s, when the Fronde armies laid the Brie region to waste.

James Mayer de Rothschild

In 1854 James de Rothschild commissioned the famous architect Joseph Paxton to build the Château de Ferrières in Ferrières-en-Brie, some 35 km east of Paris.

Jean Maurice Fiey

Fiey was born in Armentières in 30 March 1914, he entered the Dominican Order at an early age and received his Licentiate in philosophy and theology from the order's schools in France.

Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre

Joan instead was married on 12 February 1352 to Charles the Bad, at Chateau du Vivier, close to Fontenay-Trésigny in Brie, Coutevroult.

Karl-Heinz Prinz

During the Battle of France in the fighting near Armentières on the 29 May 1940, Prinz, especially distinguished himself when he and his platoon forced a breakthrough of the English positions and established a link-up with the formations located in Bailleul.

Loïc Lantoine

Loïc Lantoine is a French singer and songwriter born in Armentières, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Louis Couperin

On 22 October 1655 he stood godfather to his sister's child at Chaumes-en-Brie; from July to October 1656 and around November 1658 he was frequently travelling to Meudon, where he was probably employed by Abel Servien, a diplomat and statesman.

Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières

According to Saint-Simon's memoirs, Louis's branch of the family had fallen on hard times, but rose back into the upper circles of the court via Louis's father's and uncles's marriage to two daughters of Claude de Jussac, captain of the 'gardes de Monsieur', the regiment guarding the king's younger brother.

Philippe Pierson

He was an instructor at Armentières and Béthune under Cardinal Brandr Beekman-Ellner before he went to Canada in 1666.

Pierre Lescot

His father, also Pierre Lescot, was sieur of Lissy-en-Brie and Clagny, not far from Versailles, seigneuries that his son Pierre inherited.

Robert Livesay

During the First World War Livesay was attached to the New Zealand Division after their service at Armentières, and he served for 16 months as General Staff Officer 1 (GSO1), the officer responsible to the Divisional Commander Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell for planning and directing training and the conduct of operations.

Sandrine Thiébaud-Kangni

Sandrine Carmen Genevieve Thiébaud-Kangni (born April 21, 1976 in Sucy-en-Brie, France) is a French-born Togolese sprinter and heptathlete.

Sergei Winogradsky

In 1922, he accepted an invitation to head the division of agricultural bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute at an experimental station at Brie-Comte-Robert, France, about 30 km from Paris.

Surprise of Meaux

Taking as his pretext that the king was threatened by Italian plans to capture him, on 28 September 1567 Condé invaded the château de Montceaux in Brie, near Meaux, in order to arrest the king's person.

Thomas Highgate

On 5 September, as his battalion moved forward to take part in the First Battle of the Marne, Highgate was apprehended in a barn on the estate of Baron de Rothschild at Tournan-en-Brie by the gamekeeper.

Thomas M. Harries

Three days later, he was credited with the capture of another Albatros, a reconnaissance plane, two miles east of Armentières.

Whitestone Cheese

Other varieties made include Waitaki Camembert, Whitestone Farmhouse, Whitestone Brie, Mt Domet Double Cream Brie, Moeraki Bay Blue, Highland Blue, Totara Tasty, Manuka Feta, and four sheep's milk cheeses (notably Monte Cristo).

Wilfred Ernest Young

Young's first win for 74 Squadron–his fourth overall–came on 12 April 1918 when he destroyed an enemy Albatros D.III west of Armentières, France.


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