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2 unusual facts about Arnay-le-Duc


Arnay-le-Duc

Arnay-le-Duc was the location of the worship of the Celtic god Abilus, who was associated with the goddess Damona.

The Breakers

The fireplace, taken from a 16th-century French chateau (Arnay-le-Duc, Burgundy), bears the inscription “I laugh at great wealth, and never miss it; nothing but wisdom matters in the end.”


29th Flying Training Wing

Received a second DUC for strikes on the industrial area of Shizuoka, the Mitsubishi aircraft plant at Tamashima, and the Chigusa arsenal at Nagoya,

340th Flying Training Group

A second DUC was received for the destruction of the Italian light cruiser Taranto in the heavily defended harbor of La Spezia on 23 September 1944 before the ship could be used by the enemy to block the harbor's entrance.

450th Bombardment Group

The 450th contributed to the intensive Allied campaign against the enemy aircraft industry during Big Week (20–25 February 1944) by attacking factories at Steyr and Regensburg, being awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for braving the hazards of bad weather, enemy fighters, and flak to bombard a Messerschmitt aircraft manufacturing factory at Regensburg on 25 February.

465th Bombardment Wing

On two different missions – to marshalling yards and an oil refinery at Vienna on 8 July 1944 and to steel plants at Friedrichshafen on 3 August 1944 – the group bombed its targets despite antiaircraft fire and fighter opposition, being awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for each of these attacks.

Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz

On 25 November 1950, Alfonso received the title Duc de Bourbon (Duke of Bourbon) from his father.

Anne Pierre Adrien, duc de Montmorency-Laval

Anne Pierre Adrien de Montmorency, Duc de Laval peer of France, Knight of the King's orders and the Golden Fleece, Knight of Saint Louis, Grandee of Spain (October 29, 1768 Paris - June 16, 1837) was a French foreign Minister.

Bức Tường

July 2010 Wall reunited with new members are bass guitarist Minh Duc (former member of the Marble Palace, Rosewood ).

Château de Saint-Cloud

After the death of Jean-François de Gondi in 1654, the château was inherited in turn by Philippe-Emmanuel de Gondi and then by his nephew Henri de Gondi, known as the duc de Retz.

Château de Vincennes

In 1860 Napoleon III, having employed Viollet-le-Duc to restore the keep and the chapel, gave the Bois de Vincennes (9.95 km² in extent) and its château to Paris as a public park.

Church of Saint-Pierre-Apôtre, Montreal

The stained glass windows, crafted 1853-1883, were created by the House of Champigneulle, in Bar-le-Duc, France.

Counts of Clermont-Tonnerre

This lady, dame d'honneur to Henry II's queen, Catherine de' Medici, and afterwards wife of Albert de Gondi, duc de Retz, won a great reputation by her intellectual attainments, being referred to as the tenth muse and the fourth grace.

Duc de Beaumont

Duc de Beaumont was a French Duke (though not a peerage) created by Letters Patent in 1765.

Duc de La Force

The title of Duc de La Force, pair de France was created in 1637 for members of the Caumont family, who were lords of the village of La Force in the Dordogne.

Duchy of Żagań

The double title, both Prussian and French, served to render the duc de Sagan a neutral party in World War II: his Château de Valençay provided a safe haven for treasures of the Louvre during the German occupation of France.

Duke of Fitz-James

Duke of Fitz-James (Fr.: duc de Fitz-James) is a title of nobility in the peerage of France that was created by Louis XIV of France in 1710 for James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick.

Duke of Gesvres

The Duke of Gesvres (Fr.: duc de Gesvres) was a title in the peerage of France from 1670 to 1794, named after Gesvres in northwestern France.

Duke of Gramont

The title Duke of Gramont (duc de Gramont) was a senior member of French peerage, dukedom and nobility.

François and Michel Anguier

The chief works of François are the monument to Cardinal de Bérulle, founder of the Carmelite order, in the chapel of the oratory at Paris, of which all but the bust has been destroyed, and the mausoleum of Henri II, last duc de Montmorency, at Moulins.

François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac

Francois Hédelin was educated in law, but after practising some time at Nemours, he abandoned law, took holy orders, and was appointed tutor to one of Richelieu's nephews, the duc de Fronsac.

Frederick Pepys Cockerell

His sudden death in Paris in 1878 was followed by a funeral procession followed by the French architects Duc, Lefuel, Hardy, Pelechet, Daumet, and Vaudremer and burial at the Auteuil cemetery, Paris.

Gaston Palewski

In the English-speaking world Palewski is known chiefly through his appearance as Fabrice, duc de Sauveterre, in two of Nancy Mitford's novels, The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949).

Henri de Gondi, duc de Retz

Henri de Gondi, duc de Retz (1590–1659) was a French nobleman of the Gondi family.

Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville

After the Peace of Rueil (11 March 1649) had ended the first phase of the civil war, Mazarin's sudden arrest of the Grand Condé, his brother the prince de Conti and their brother-in-law the duc de Longueville, on January 14, 1650 precipitated the next phase of the Fronde, the Fronde des nobles.

Henry de Nogaret de La Valette

He was created duc de Candale in 1621, but that title became extinct upon his death and his brother Bernard succeeded him as the 8th Comte de Candale.

Hesdin

Jacquemart de Hesdin (c. 1355– c. 1414), miniaturist and painter to the duc de Berry

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.

Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano

Hugues-Bernard Maret, 1st Duc de Bassano (1 May 1763 – 13 May 1839) was a French statesman and journalist.

Ivon Le Duc

Le Duc was unexpectedly rejected as MICU's candidate for borough mayor in the 2005 municipal election in favour of former provincial cabinet minister Pierre Bélanger.

Jacques de Serisay

Jacques de Serisay (1594 in Paris – November 1653 in La Rochefoucauld, Charente) was a French poet, intendant of the duc de La Rochefoucauld, and the founding director of the Académie française from 1634 to 11 January 1638 where he was the first occupant of seat three.

Joseph-Louis Duc

Duc's other commissions, though rare, include the 1862 chapel of the small college Louis-le-Grand, now the Lycée Michelet, in Vanves.

Just de Noailles

With the death of his father, he inherited the title count of Noailles, after the renunciation of his older brother, Charles-Arthur-Tristan-Languedoc de Noailles, 2nd duc de Mouchy.

Kellermann

François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), 3rd Duc de Valmy, son of François Étienne

La Lorraine

The La Lorraine was a French automobile manufactured in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse by Charles Schmid from 1899 until 1902.

LH Aviation LH-10 Ellipse

The Force Aerienne Populaire de Benin has ordered two Grand Duc to monitor their coastlines around the capital Porto-Novo.

Litavis

Her name is found in inscriptions found at Aignay-le-Duc and Mâlain of the Côte-d'Or, France, where she is invoked along with the Gallo-Roman god Mars Cicolluis in a context which suggests that she might have been his consort.

Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe

At the death of his older brother Louis Marie de Bourbon, the Prince of Lamballe became the heir to the Penthièvre fortune, much of which had been extorted by Louis XIV from his childless cousin la Grande Mademoiselle, and bestowed upon Louis XIV's legitimised elder son, Louis Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine.

Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc

In 1727 at the early age of nineteen, Louis César was promoted to the rank of colonel of the regiment under the title of duc de La Vallière.

Louis Henri, Prince of Condé

While in exile in 1811, the duc de Bourbon had made the acquaintance at a bordello in Piccadilly of one Sophia Dawes or Daw, a maid in a brothel from the Isle of Wight.

Louis Napoléon Lannes

Louis Napoléon Auguste Lannes, 2nd duc de Montebello (July 30, 1801 Paris – July 18, 1874 Chateau de Mareuil-sur-Ay (Marne)) was a French diplomat and politician.

Miguel José de Bournonville, 1st Duke of Bournoville

(Michel Joseph, Duc de Bournonville in French), ( Diksmuide, Flanders, 30 June 1672 - Madrid, 2 October 1752), was a Spanish noble.

Paul Seitz

Men of Dignity: The Montagnards of South Vietnam, Bar-le-Duc, France: Imprimerie Saint-Paul

Princes of Wagram

After Louis Alexandre Berthier, the inheritors of the dual title (duc de Valengin) are most often referred to as "Prince de Wagram." Each of them lived at Château de Grosbois, a large estate in Boissy-Saint-Léger, Val-de-Marne, southeast of Paris.

RAF Knettishall

The 388th received another DUC for three outstanding missions: an attack against a tire and rubber factory in Hanover on 26 July 1943; the bombardment of a synthetic oil refinery in Brux on 12 May 1944; and a strike against a synthetic oil refinery at Ruhland on 21 June 1944, during a shuttle raid from England to the Soviet Union.

Tadeusz Fuss-Kaden

Notable buyers of his paintings included playwright Samuel Beckett, pianist Artur Rubinstein, art historian Will Grohmann and entrepreneurs Burton Tremaine and John Delorean as well as collections in New York United States Galerie BING and Weintraub and Richard Sussman and La Rochefoucauld Duc D´Estrées.

Viet and Duc Nguyen

On October 4, 1988, Viet and Duc were separated in the hospital in Ho Chi Minh City with the help of the Japanese Red Cross after Viet went into a coma.

Vietnam: The Last Battle

Coal miner Pham Ngo Duc describes the massive American bombing, which, according to Pilger, journalists James Cameron and Harrison Salisbury, were vilified for reporting.


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