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4 unusual facts about Auteuil, Neuilly, Passy


Alessandro Manzoni

Upon the death of his father in 1805, he joined the freethinking household of his mother at Auteuil, and spent two years mixing with the literary set of the so-called "ideologues", philosophers of the 18th-century school, among whom he made many friends, notably Claude Charles Fauriel.

Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy

The satiric group Les Inconnus made in 1991 a song called "Auteuil, Neuilly, Passy (rap BCBG)".

Illiers-Combray

Recent Proust scholarship, however, has argued that Proust's descriptions of Combray owe as much to his uncle's home in Auteuil as to Illiers.

Nicolas Chamfort

Disliking the constraints of court life, he became increasingly discontented, and after a year he resigned his post in the prince's household and retired to Auteuil.


Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé

Lopez-Willshaw, however, continued to maintain a formal residence with his wife, Patricia, in Neuilly.

Alva Belmont

When Murray went to Liverpool, England, to conduct his business, her mother, Phoebe Smith, moved to Paris where Alva attended a private boarding school in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Anatole Cerfberr

Anatole Cerfberr (1835, Paris—1896, Neuilly) was a French journalist and author.

Antenor Patiño

Doña María Isabel Patiño y Borbón (Paris, 3 June 1936 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, 15 May 1954) who had a short and tragic marriage with Sir James Goldsmith, by whom she had an only daughter.

Battle of Hòa Bình

On 11 January 1952, General de Lattre died at the Neuilly military hospital due to cancer.

Beauté-sur-Marne

This manor, which gives its name to the commune of Neuilly-Plaisance, was held by his brother the Duke of Burgundy.

Big Joe Duskin

His touring in Europe continued before he recorded his final album at the Quai du Blues in Neuilly, France.

Charles Bernardy

From 1775 to 1780, the troop put on shows at Amiens, Cambrai, Strasbourg, Colmar, Paris (at the "théâtre des Petits Comédiens du Bois de Boulogne"), Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Toulon, Marseille, Dijon, Passy, Saint-Quentin, Antwerp and Brussels.

Charles Georges Javet

Charles Georges Javet (1802, Winterthur, Kanton Zürich – 25 May 1882, Passy, Paris) was a Swiss-born French insect dealer and entomologist.

Christophe Bigot

Christophe Bigot (born December 23, 1965) in Neuilly-sur-Seine France, is the current French ambassador to Israel.

Claude Parent

Claude Parent, born on 23 February 1923 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, is a French architect known for his buildings featuring sloped floors, an aesthetic initially inspired by Parent's discovery, with philosopher Paul Virilio, of World War II bunkers constructed along the Atlantic Wall that had accidentally slipped down sand dunes because of severe winter weather.

Daniel Brottier

In November 1923, the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, Louis-Ernest Dubois, asked the Congregation of the Holy Spirit to assume charge of an orphanage in an arrondissement of Paris, the Orphan Apprentices of Auteuil.

Dawn Run

In her second season, she won eight of her nine races, including the English Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, the Irish Champion Hurdle at Leapardstown, both over two miles, and the French Champion Hurdle (Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil) at Auteuil over three miles, becoming the first horse to complete the treble.

Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge

On 10 October 2007, Divungi Di Ndinge was evacuated to the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, due to what was described as "sudden depression".

Émile Bergerat

Émile Bergerat (29 April 1845, Paris - 13 October 1923, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French poet, playwright and essayist.

Evgenije Popović

Since late 1918 he is no longer in Neuilly, so the position of Minister of Internal Affairs is held by Dr. Pero Šoć.

Fraser Frisell

In memory of Frisell's daughter Élisa, who died at Passy in 1832, Chateaubriand, while in prison on charge of participation in the Duchesse de Berry's attempt to overthrow the Orléanist régime, composed the touching stanzas, Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur, and portions of the affectionate correspondence between Frisell and Joubert have been preserved.

Georges Bouton

Georges Bouton was the nominal winner of the 'world's first motor race' on 28 April 1887, when he drove a de Dion-Bouton vehicle 2 kilometers from Neuilly Bridge to the Bois de Boulogne.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Eventually, she maintained art studios in Greenwich Village and in Passy, a fashionable Parisian neighborhood in the XVI arrondissement.

Giovanni Antonio Galignani

The brothers established and endowed hospitals at Corbeil and at Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil

Daniel Wildenstein – Gopal (1969), Top Gear (1977), Paiute (1979, 1980), World Citizen (1982), Vaporetto (1999)

Henry George Purchase

In 1915, he was sent on a special mission to France for the purpose of organising a British and American hospital at Neuilly.

Jacques de Loustal

Jacques de Loustal (born April 10, 1956, in Neuilly-Sur-Seine) is a French comics artist who uses a painterly style reminiscent of David Hockney.

Jean de Koven

LeBlond was lured to his car by one of two female "decoys", where he was killed at Neuilly.

Jean de Pourtales

Jean de Pourtales (born August 19, 1965) is a French racing driver from Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Jean-Christophe Cambadélis

Jean-Christophe Cambadélis (born August 14, 1951) is a member of the National Assembly of France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Jean-Louis Jaley

Jean-Louis Nicolas Jaley (born in Paris in 1802, died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1866) was a French sculptor.

Jean-Philippe Salabreuil

Jean-Philippe Salabreuil (25 May 1940, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 27 February 1970, Paris), real name Jean-Pierre Steinbach, was a French poet.

Jimmy Hare

During World War I he documented American, British, Canadian, and Italian soldiers, St Dunstan's home for blind soldiers, the Greek harbor town of Thessaloniki, the military hospital at the Hall of Mechanics at the Grand Palais in Paris, people fleeing Antwerp, funerals of the dead from the RMS Lusitania, and the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine, among other subjects.

José Maria de Eça de Queirós

He lived at Neuilly-sur-Seine and continued to write journalism (Ecos de Paris, "Echos from Paris") as well as literary criticism.

Laurens Shull

Three weeks later, he died at American Red Cross Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly a suburb of Paris, of complications due to bullet wounds.

Marc-André Dalbavie

Marc-André Dalbavie (born February 10, 1961 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French composer.

Marymount School, Paris

Marymount Paris opened on September 30, 1923 in town of Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside of Paris.

Michel Ephrussi

On April 4, 1900 Ephrussi and the Count fought a duel with swords on Île de la Jatte in the Seine River at Neuilly in which Ephrussi was wounded in the chest but soon recovered.

Passy

Passy is known to Americans as the home of patriot Benjamin Franklin during the nine years that he lived in France during the American Revolutionary War.

Pierre Hohenberg

Pierre C. Hohenberg (born 3 October 1934 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French-American theoretical physicist, who works primarily on statistical mechanics.

Prince Umberto of Savoy-Aosta

Umberto was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the first child and son of Prince Aimone, Duke of Apulia and his wife, the former Princess Olga of Greece.

Princess Sophie of Romania

In Neuilly on 29 August 1998 she married Alain Michel Léonce Biarneix (b. 10 July 1957 in Nancy), The couple divorced in 2002.

Raoul Nordling

A play area in the 11th Arrondissement, the "Square Raoul Nordling" is named in his honour, as is a street in Neuilly.

Ravigneaux planetary gearset

The Ravigneaux gearset is a double planetary gear set, invented by Pol Ravigneaux, who filed a patent application on July 28, 1949, in Neuilly-sur-Seine France.

Rearmament

Salonika Agreement (31 July 1938), a treaty permitting Bulgaria to re-arm contrary to the Treaty of Neuilly

Solomon Passy

Passy and his team completed a study on modal logic, originally initiated by Aristotle, framing the theory of the necessary truths in the possible worlds – popular today as hybrid logic.

Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond

Then known as the Count and Countess de Neuilly, and formerly Louis-Philippe I, King of the French and his queen Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, the couple and their entourage stayed at the Star and Garter while Maria recovered from the effects of the water at Claremont House.

The Unfaithful Wife

The embarrassed detective duly reports that his wife sees a writer called Victor Pégala, at his home in Neuilly-sur-Seine, several times a week.

Théodore Année

Théodore Année, a wealthy, retired French diplomatic consul in South America, returned to France in the mid-1840s and settled in rue des Réservoirs, Passy, Paris, where he devoted himself to the culture of tropical plants from South America, having brought back with him the taste for plants with beautiful foliage, especially the Canna genus.

United Daughters of the Confederacy

During World War I, the organization supported 70 hospital beds at the American Military Hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France and contributed $82,069 for French and Belgian orphans.

Yves Duteil

He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), in 24 July 1949 and is the third child to be born in the family.


see also

Louis Thiry

Louis Thiry has recorded the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in 1972 at St. Pierre Cathedral in Geneva for Calliope (record label) (Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros), the Well Tempered Clavier (1972 at the Église Réformée d’Auteuil, 1975, and The Art of Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach (1993) at Saint Thomas Church (Strasbourg).