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unusual facts about Bagnoles-de-l'Orne


Galeazzo Ciano

The following year he was allegedly involved in organizing the murder of the brothers Carlo Rosselli and Nello Rosselli, two exiled anti-fascist major activists killed in the French spa town of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne on 9 June 1937.


Auguste-François Maunoury

Auguste-François Maunoury (b. at Champsecret, Orne, France, 30 Oct., 1811; d. Séez, Orne, 17 Nov., 1898) was a Catholic Hellenist and exegete.

Battle of Val-ès-Dunes

The royal army pursued closely, slaughtering rebels by the thousands and driving the remnants of their army into the Orne River, near the Athis fort and Fleury-sur-Orne.

Butin

Origny-le-Butin, a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France

Charles Simon Catel

Charles Simon Catel (10 July 1773 – 29 November 1830) was a French composer and educator born at L'Aigle, Orne.

Château de Carrouges

The Château de Carrouges is a château, dating partly from the 14th century, located in the commune of Carrouges, in the Orne department, Basse-Normandie, northern France.

CHSH inequality

CHSH stands for John Clauser, Michael Horne, Abner Shimony and Richard Holt, who described it in a much-cited paper published in 1969 (Clauser et al., 1969).

Écouché in the Second World War

On the afternoon of 17 August, an attack by foot soldiers of the German SS « Das Reich » on the banks of the Orne became a rout.

Edgar Chahine

By the end of that year, a museum in CrouttesVimoutiers in the Orne region of France was named after him, Musée Chahine.

Eglinton Castle

Lady Susanna Montgomerie, wife of the 9th Earl of Eglinton, was a renowned society beauty and her husband built for her at Kidsneuk a copy of the Hameau de la Reine 'cottage orné' that Marie Antoinette had famously possessed at Versailles.

Freddy Head

Prix du Jockey-Club - (4) - Goodly (1969), Roi Lear (1973), Val de l'Orne (1975), Youth (1976)

Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard

Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard was a Thoroughbred horse breeding farm in Neuvy-au-Houlme in the Orne department in Lower Normandy purchased by Marcel Boussac in 1919.

Haras du Mezeray

Haras du Mezeray is a French Thoroughbred horse breeding farm located at Ticheville, Orne, in the Lower Normandy region of France.

Haras du Petit Tellier

Located on 1.45 km² at Sévigny, Orne in the Lower Normandy region, the business was founded in 1850 and is today run by the founder's descendant, Patrick Chedeville.

Henri Fantin-Latour

In 1875, Henri Fantin-Latour married a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, after which he spent his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne in Lower Normandy, where he died of lyme disease on 25 August 1904.

Herman B. Duryea

However, when many states began passing anti-betting legislation that ended most racing, Duryea moved his breeding and racing operations to Haras du Gazon in Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne, Normandy, France acquired from Maurice Ephrussi.

Jean Julien Angot des Rotours

Jean Julien Angot, baron des Rotours (2 June 1778 Les Rotours, Orne - 28 March 1844 Paris) was a French colonial governor.

La Trappe Abbey

La Trappe Abbey or La Grande Trappe is a monastery in Soligny-la-Trappe, Orne, France, and the house of origin of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (O.C.S.O.: Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae), Reformed Cistercians or Trappists, to whom it gave its name.

Le Mage

Le Mage, Orne, a village and commune in the Orne département of north-western France

Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal

The Second World War: Dieppe, L'Escaut, Bourgebus Ridge, Saint-André-sur-Orne, Verrières Ridge—Tilly-la-Campagne, Falaise, Falaise Road, The Liaison, Forêt de la Londe, Dunkirk 1944, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, The Scheldt, Woensdrecht, South Beveland, The Rhineland, The Hochwald, Xanten, The Rhine, Groningen, Oldenburg, North-West Europe 1942 '44-45

Lettres de l'Inde

It was actually in Paris that Mirbeau wrote the first seven letters, centering on Ceylon and Pondicherry, and then in the Orne, near L'Aigle, where, while contemplating the rhododendrons of Normandy, he pictured in the last four letters the twelve-meter high rhododendrons of the Himalayas, glimpsed in an apocryphal trek across Sikkim.

Lise de Baissac

Her SOE dossier states "She was the inspiring-force for the groups in the Orne, and through her initiatives she inflicted heavy losses on the Germans thanks to anti-tyre devices scattered on the roads near Saint-Aubin-du-Désert, Saint-Mars-du-Désert, and even as far as Laval, Le Mans and Rennes. She also took part in armed attacks on enemy columns."

Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin

Marie-Azélie Guérin was born in Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon, Orne, France and was the second daughter of Isidore Guérin and Louise-Jeanne Macé.

McClure Newspaper Syndicate

The company lost money during its first few years, eventually turning a profit while distributing and promoting such American authors as George Ade, John Kendrick Bangs, William Jennings Bryan, Joel Chandler Harris, William Dean Howells, Fannie Hurst, Sarah Orne Jewett, Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and Woodrow Wilson.

Nicolas-Jacques Conté

He was born at Saint-Céneri-près-Sées (now Aunou-sur-Orne) in Normandy, and distinguished himself for his mechanical genius which was of great avail to the French army in Egypt.

Pharis

Pharis stood at stud at his owner's Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard in Neuvy-au-Houlme in Orne where he notably sired Ardan in 1940 and whose 1944 performances would be the basis for Pharis earning that year's Leading sire in France title.

Philip Schram

Schram collaborated on Les Ornais Celebres (The Orne Celebrities) in 2010 as a key contributor of photographs and knowledge about Joseph Lamy, a famous resident of France's Orne region and key executive at Le Zebre and Amilcar.

Prix du Pin

The event takes its name from France's oldest horse breeding establishment, located at Le Pin-au-Haras in Orne.

Trottier

The first was Jules Trottier, born around 1591 in Igé (Orne, Normandy, France), dispatched to New France by contract at La Rochelle on July 4, 1646.

William Slater Brown

In September 1917 Brown and Cummings were arrested on suspicion of espionage and were imprisoned at the La Ferté-Macé detention camp, Orne, Normandy.


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