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unusual facts about Bagnères de Bigorre



Jean Antoine Dours

Jean Antoine Dours (22 March 1824 , Bagnères de Bigorre-29 July 1874 Amiens) was a French entomologist specialising in Hymenoptera.


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Escaladieu Abbey

In the middle of the 12th century, a group of monks under the protection of the count of Bigorre who lived at Cabadur in the Gripp valley in the modern-day Canton of Campan in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, wanted to move to a more hospitable location and therefore establish the abbey at Bonnemazon.

Henry John Clements

# Catharine, born 3 February 1822 at Ashford Lodge, died 18 September 1830 at Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrénées, France.

Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Ségur, Viscount of Ségur

He deceased at the age of 48 years, in the arms of Mademoiselle d'Avaux, his mistress after twelve years, while he was recovering from a chest illness at Bagnères-de-Bigorre.

Lorraine 37L

Early 1939 it was decided to erect a factory in a more southern location, less vulnerable to German bombing, at Bagnères-de-Bigorre.

Lourdes water

Lacadé had hoped that Lourdes water might have special mineral properties which would allow him to develop Lourdes into a spa town, to compete with neighbouring Cauterets and Bagnères-de-Bigorre.

Marie Dominique Bouix

Marie Dominique Bouix (b. 15 May 1808, at Bagnères-de-Bigorre, in the diocese of Tarbes; d. at Montech, France, 26 December 1870) was a French Jesuit canon lawyer.