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8 unusual facts about Bagneux


André-Louis Cholesky

André-Louis Cholesky (October 15, 1875, Montguyon – August 31, 1918, Bagneux) was a French military officer and mathematician.

Bagneux, Aisne

In the second round of the French presidential election of 2002 Bagneux had the fifteenth largest vote for Jean-Marie Le Pen in France.

Cimetière parisien de Bagneux

Located to the southwest of the city of Paris, France, the main entrance to the Cimetière de Bagneux is located at 43-45, Avenue Marx-Dormoy, in Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine.

Cimetière parisien de Bagneux is one of the three Parisien cemeteries extra muros, located in Bagneux.

Ilan Halimi

Halimi was abducted and taken to Bagneux where he was held captive and tortured for three weeks.

Louis Janmot

At that time, in his home in Bagneux, he made many portraits of the members of his family (only photographs are currently available).

Olympique Saumur FC

The club's early incarnation Olympique Saumur was formed in 1945 and played for approximately 44 years before dissolving as a result of a merger with amateur club SC Bagneux in nearby Bagneux.

The Affair of the Gang of Barbarians

On February 22, 2008, six members of a group calling themselves Barbarians assaulted 19-year-old Mathieu Roumi in the same Paris suburb of Bagneux where Halimi was kidnapped.


Elmore D

In 1988, he was nominated for the Paris-Bagneux Blues Contest and played in "avant-première" of the Chicago Blues Festival.


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