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unusual facts about Aubigny-en-Artois


Claude Nunney

He died aged 25, 16 days after receiving what proved to be mortal wounds and was buried at Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, near Aubigny-en-Artois (Grave reference number IV. B. 39).


1991 Stella Artois Championships

The 1991 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1991 ATP Tour.

1992 Stella Artois Championships

The 1992 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1992 ATP Tour.

1993 Stella Artois Championships

The 1993 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1993 ATP Tour.

1994 Stella Artois Championships

The 1994 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour.

1995 Stella Artois Championships

The 1995 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour.

1996 Stella Artois Championships

The 1996 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1996 ATP Tour.

1998 Stella Artois Championships

The 1998 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1998 ATP Tour.

2000 Stella Artois Championships

The 2000 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the International Series of the 2000 ATP Tour.

7 Valleys Pas de Calais

Depicted by The Sunday Times, UK, as Northern France’s best kept secret, the Seven Valleys is also called the Artois Valleys abounding in “rolling contours, as green and bushy as anything you will come across in Dordogne”.

Alan Stewart of Darnley

Following his father's death at the Battle of the Herrings in 1429 during the Siege of Orléans, Darnley inherited his father's titles of the Lordships of Aubigny and Concressault, but not his County of Évreux.

Anthea Benton

Their work for Stella Artois launched the brands distinctive style of honouring European cinema, with its nod to Jean de Florette.

Balsall Preceptory

The donor, according to a survey of the Templars' possessions in England in 1185, was Roger de Mowbray, son of Nigel d'Aubigny.

Battle of Al Mansurah

The ships of the Seventh Crusade sailed from the French ports of Aigues-Mortes and Marseille to Cyprus during the autumn of 1248, then in 1249 sailed toward Egypt, led by King Louis's brothers, Charles d'Anjou and Robert d'Artois.

Battle of Fariskur

With the full support of Pope Innocent IV during the First Council of Lyon, King Louis IX of France accompanied by his brothers Charles d'Anjou and Robert d'Artois launched the Seventh Crusade against Egypt.

Battle of Saint-Omer

He ordered Robert III of Artois, an old pretender to the title of Count of Artois to take 1,000 English and over 10,000 Flemish troops which had gathered into the Artois region and conduct a miniature chevauchée in the region, attempting to provoke the French into action and perhaps to capture an important fortified town such as Saint-Omer.

Canton of Aubigny-sur-Nère

An area of forestry and farming in the valley of the river Nère, in the northeastern part of the arrondissement of Vierzon, centred on the town of Aubigny-sur-Nère.

Caspar de Robles

Caspar de Robles or Gaspard di Robles (Madrid, 1527 – Antwerp, 1585) also known as Billy in Artois, was Stadholder of Friesland and Groningen at the beginning of the Eighty Years' War (reign: 1568 to 1576).

Charles Alexandre de Calonne

He was present with the Count of Artois, the reactionary brother of Louis XVI, at Pillnitz in August 1791 at the time of the issuance of the Declaration of Pillnitz, an attempt to intimidate the revolutionary government of France that the Count of Artois pressed for.

Château de Méréville

To this end he commissioned major artists such as Bélanger (famous in this decade for having constructed Bagatelle in only two months for the comte d'Artois), the famous cabinetmaker Leleu, the sculptor Augustin Pajou and the painter Claude Joseph Vernet.

County of Aubigny

The county was named by the Surveyor-General of New South Wales in 1850, possibly to honour the Earl of Arundel who had a long association with the name Aubigny.

County of Saint-Pol

The county of Saint-Pol (or Sint-Pols) was a county around the French city of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise (Sint-Pols-aan-de-Ternas) on the border of Artois and Picardy, formerly the county of Ternois.

Courson-les-Carrières

It extends to the west on the plateau of limestone portlandiens, whose stone has been worked and includes a visit to Aubigny in the commune of Taingy, who served in numerous monuments of Paris, whose city hall, a workshop size and initiation size is maintained.

Don des vaisseaux

Langdoc obliged, and the example was followed the next year by the Estates of the provinces of Brittany, Burgundy, Artois, Flanders; the cities of Paris, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Marseille; some particular institutions such as the Posts, the Six Corps (corporations of the merchants of Paris), the Ferme générale, the Chambers of commerce; and even individuals.

Duke of Gordon

Aubigny is in the defunct Peerage of France and the central arms of the Duke are based on the original Jacobean ones for the Union of the Crowns, with the inherited but inactive English claims to the French throne also represented prominently.

Esmé Stuart

Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox (1542–1583), son of John Stewart, 5th Lord of Aubigny

François-Joseph Bélanger

Bélanger constructed the Folie Saint James, a French landscape garden, in Neuilly from 1777 to 1780, and worked for the comte d'Artois at the Château of Maisons-Lafitte.

James Levingston, 1st Earl of Newburgh

Livingston married firstly before 1648 Catherine Stuart, widow of George, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny and daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk.

Joan I

Joan I of Navarre (1271–1305), daughter of King Henry I of Navarre and Blanche of Artois

Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil

Following the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, which marked the beginning of the French Revolution, Vaudreuil, in the company of his old royal comrade, the comte d'Artois, left Versailles on horseback for the Austrian Netherlands.

Julie d'Aubigny

In Villeperdue, she fought a victorious duel against three squires and drove her blade through the shoulder of one of them.

Louise d'Esparbès de Lussan

Marie Louise d’Esparbès de Lussan, by marriage vicomtesse then comtesse de Polastron (Bardigues, 19 October 1764 – London, 27 March 1804) was a member of the Esparbès de Lussan family and the mistress of the comte d’Artois, who later reigned as Charles X of France.

Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully

He was born at the Château de Rosny near Mantes-la-Jolie into a branch of the House of Bethune, a noble family originating in Artois, and was brought up in the Reformed faith, a Huguenot.

Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix

Comte d'Artois was the youngest of the three sons of Louis, Dauphin of France (son of Louis XV) and Marie Leszczyńska and, unlike his two brothers Louis XVI and the future Louis XVIII, was inclined for the most part to easy and expensive pleasures, while reluctant to engage in reading and reflection.

Nigel d'Aubigny

He married Matilda of Laigle, daughter of Richer of Laigle, who had previously been married to the disgraced Robert de Mowbray and then divorced him.

His father was Roger d’Aubigny and his mother Alicia, sister of Geoffrey de Montbray; William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel was his nephew.

Philippe de Vitry

While some medieval sources claim that he was born in the Champagne region, more recent research indicates that he may have originated in Vitry-en-Artois near Arras.

Picardy

"P'tit quinquin", a Picard song, is a symbol of the local culture (and of that of Artois).

Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny

Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny was born at Fauquembergues, near Saint-Omer, in the former Artois region of France (now Pas-de-Calais), four months before the marriage of his parents, Marie-Antoinette Dufresne and Nicolas Monsigny.

Rachel Tan

In her capacity as an ambassador, she attended the Stella Artois Tennis Tournament in London, traveled to Beijing for the Chinese Tennis Open and visited the Rado watch factory near Bern, Switzerland.

Rue de Créqui

The street was named as tribute of a family of Artois which several members were famous, including Charles 1st (1578-1638), Duke of Lesdiguieres, Lieutenant General of the Dauphine, whom the street is name after.

Sarah Biasini

Biasini made her film debut in 2004 starring in the Emmy-nominated French mini-series, Julie, Chevalier de Maupin, a swashbuckling adventure story loosely based on the life of the sword-wielding 17th-century opera star Julie d'Aubigny (Mlle. Maupin).

Sigebert I

But at Sigebert's moment of triumph, when he had just been declared king by Chilperic's subjects at Vitry-en-Artois, he was struck down by two assassins working for Fredegund.

Sophie d'Artois

Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria

Thomas Erskine of Haltoun

He had letters of recommendation from James V to Eleanor of France, the Queen of Navarre, Madame Aubigny and Robert Stuart, sieur d'Aubigny, the Chancellor Antoine Duprat Cardinal of Sens, the Admiral Philippe de Chabot, the Grand Master Anne de Montmorency, and the French Secretary Jean le Breton, sieur de Villandry.

Treaty of the Pyrenees

France gained Roussillon and Perpignan, Montmédy and other parts of Luxembourg, Artois and other towns in Flanders, including Arras, Béthune, Gravelines and Thionville, and a new border with Spain was fixed at the Pyrenees.

Trench railways

Former British trench railway equipment was put to civilian use rebuilding Vis-en-Artois between Arras and Cambrai.

Vitry-en-Artois

Aerial photography has revealed an isolated circular ditch monument at Vitry.

William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel

His title was held by his son William, until he died, childless, in 1224, when it was passed to William's youngest son Hugh.

William Dunbar

His allegory The Thrissil and the Rois commemorated the marriage of Margaret of England to King James IV in 1503 while the "Eulogy to Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny" welcomed the arrival of a distinguished Franco-Scottish soldier as the French ambassador in 1508.


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