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18 unusual facts about Beaulieu


Alessandro Cagno

The car subsequently raced in the USA and lapped Brooklands at over 100 mph and is now in the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, England.

Asher Peres

According to his autobiography, he was born Aristide Pressman in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne in France, where his father, a Polish electrical engineer, had found work laying down power lines.

Beaulieu-lès-Loches

The pope settled a dispute over the abbey's consecration with the Archbishop of Tours by himself sending a legate to consecrate it.

Beaulieu-sur-Mer

It was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the archeologist Théodore Reinach and is in the style of an ancient Greek villa at the time of Pericles.

Beaulieu, Georgia

The village still retains a Deep South atmosphere, with big live oaks covered with Spanish moss.

Beaulieu, Minnesota

Beaulieu is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Beaulieu and Chief Townships, Mahnomen County, Minnesota, United States.

Brough Superior SS100

Lawrence's last SS100 (Registration GW 2275) was built in 1932 and was on loan to the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, Hampshire.

Charles Vaurie

Charles Vaurie (7 July 1906, Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, France – 13 May 1975, Reading, Pennsylvania) was a French-born American ornithologist.

Charles-Philippe Ronsin

Because of Ronsin's decision the Vendeans took over Beaulieu and managed to convince the Committee to get rid of Canclaux.

E. J. Pennington

The only surviving example of this design is preserved by the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire, England.

Edward Hussey-Montagu, 1st Earl Beaulieu

From 1758 to 1762, he was Whig Member of Parliament for Tiverton and on his retirement was raised to the Peerage as Baron Beaulieu, of Beaulieu in the County of Southampton, and later Earl Beaulieu, of Beaulieu in the County of Southampton, in 1784.

Frits Thaulow

His best paintings were made in small towns such as Montreuil-sur-Mer (1892–94), Dieppe and surrounding villages from (1894–98), Quimperle in Brittany in (1901) and Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne in the Corrèze département (1903).

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu

The success of Coline Serreau's comedy helped her film career and a string of parts in costume films followed - films such as Andrzej Wajda's Les Possédés of 1988, Philippe Le Guay's Les Deux Fragonard, and Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron's La Révolution Française, playing Charlotte Corday, and released in 1989 to coincide with celebrations for the bi-centenary of the 1789 Revolution.

Pontoon fenders

The British assumed the latter definition, using it in such works as the Beaulieu National Motor Museum Encyclopedia of the Automobile.

Ralph Vibert

During the War he served as a cypher instructor with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Beaulieu, New Forest before being promoted to Chief instructor of Force 136, the Asian outpost of the SOE in India.

SR V Schools class

It was purchased from British Railways for Lord Montagu's National Motor Museum when it was withdrawn for scrapping in 1962.

Thomas Claude Robson

The magnificent soaring windows set high up at the back of the nave, at the west end of the Cathedral, were erected to the memory of one of the parish’s sons, Lieut William Newby, R.A.F., killed in action in France in 1918, and buried at Rejet-de-Beaulieu.

Villa Kerylos

Villa Kerylos in Beaulieu-sur-Mer is a Greek-style property built in the early 1900s by French archaeologist Theodore Reinach, and his wife Fanny Kann, a daughter of Maximilien Kann and Betty Ephrussi, of the Ephrussi family.


Ambroise Louis Garneray

At thirteen, he joined the Navy as a seaman, encouraged by his cousin, Beaulieu-Leloup, commander of the frigate Forte ("the Stout one").

Beaulieu Abbey

Monks from Beaulieu founded four daughter houses, Netley Abbey (1239), Hailes Abbey (1246), Newenham Abbey (1247) and St Mary Graces Abbey (1350).

Beaulieu International Group

In 1978 the American offshoot, "Beaulieu of America", was created by Roger De Clerck's son-in-law Carl Bouckaert and his daughter Mieke De Clerck.

Beaulieu Road railway station

The railway company were obliged to open it as a 'personal' station for Lord Montagu, a concession to him for allowing the railway to be built over part of his Beaulieu Estate.

Beaulieu Vineyard

By the 1940s, Beaulieu wines were served at all major White House functions.

Belinda Douglas-Scott-Montagu, Baroness Montagu of Beaulieu

Beaulieu Abbey houses the former Baroness Montagu of Beaulieu's wall hangings which depict the abbey's history.

Camblesforth

Subsequently, Sibil de Beaulieu (d.1301) daughter of Laderina de Brus, Lady of Camblesforth and granddaughter of Peter de Brus, Lord of Skelton married Sir Miles Stapleton (d.1314).

Charles Robinson Sykes

The Spirit of Ecstasy, also called "Emily", "Silver Lady" or "Flying Lady", carries with it a story about a secret passion between John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, (second Lord Montagu of Beaulieu after 1905, a pioneer of the automobile movement, and editor of The Car magazine from 1902) and his secret love and the model for the emblem, Eleanor Velasco Thornton.

Conchita Supervía

She made her stage debut in 1910 at the young age of 15 at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina in Stiattesi's Blanca de Beaulieu.

Delta station

The station was inaugurated on September 20, 1976, as part of the first heavy metro segment of the network, located on the branch from Mérode to Beaulieu, which is now a part of line 1A.

Emile D. Beaulieu

During the latter part of the 1980s, Beaulieu visited Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany and Taichung in Taiwan, establishing sister city relationships between these two cities and Manchester.

Exbury Gardens

Other features include the Hydrangea Walk, the Rock Garden, Iris Garden, the Sundial Garden which follows an exotic planting, and a Camellia Walk (which takes visitors to a path alongside Beaulieu river and back via the pond).

Girard de Beaulieu

He was associated with the Académie de Baïf, one of whom's aristocratic poets, Nicolas Filleul de La Chesnaye, the king's almoner was to provide the lyrics for the ballet Circé in the first French opera-ballet, the Balet Comique de la Royne of 1581, to which Beaulieu and Jacques Salmon provided the music.

Henry Tichborne, 1st Baron Ferrard

Tichborne was the son of Sir William Tichborne of Beaulieu, County Louth; and grandson of the judge Sir Henry Tichborne, a younger son of Tudor MP, Sir Benjamin Tichborne, 1st Baronet, of Tichborne (see Tichborne Baronets).

He represented Ardee and County Louth in the Irish House of Commons and was created a Baronet, of Beaulieu in the County of Louth, in the Baronetage of England on 12 July 1697.

Johann Peter Beaulieu

Thomas Graham, an English observer with the Austrian army, noted that Beaulieu seemed to expect too much from his soldiers, was irritated, and tended to blame the failure of his plans on others for not properly executing his orders.

Born in Lathuy Castle, Jodoigne in the Austrian Netherlands (now Walloon Brabant, Belgium) in 1725, Beaulieu joined the Austrian army in 1743 and fought in the War of the Austrian Succession.

John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu

During his first marriage Beaulieu had a daughter by his mistress and secretary Eleanor Thornton.

Lettice Mary Tredway

In July 1616, Tredway entered the novitiate of the Canonesses Regular of the Lateran at their Priory of Notre-Dame-de-Beaulieu in the village of Sin-le-Noble, near Douai, in the County of Flanders, which had been established in the 13th century as a hostel for travellers and the sick.

Lord Lovat

(Fraser was also created Duke of Fraser, Marquess of Beaufort, Earl of Stratherrick and Upper Tarf, Viscount of the Aird and Strathglass and Lord Lovat and Beaulieu in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart (titular King James III of England and VIII of Scotland) in 1740.)

Lucas Waldin

A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Waldin has performed with L'Orchestre du Festival Beaulieu-sur-Mer (Monaco), Staatstheater Cottbus (Brandenburg), and Bachakademie Stuttgart.

Lynn Flewelling

Lynn Flewelling (born Lynn Elizabeth Beaulieu on October 20, 1958 in Presque Isle, Maine) is a fantasy fiction author, best known for two award-winning fantasy series: the Nightrunner books and Tamír Triad.

Martin Ruzé de Beaulieu

Martin Ruzé de Beaulieu, Lord of Beaulieu of Longjumeau and Chilly (c. 1526, Tours – November 6, 1613, Paris) was a French politician of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, who was Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi (or King's Secretary) under Henry III of France, Henry IV of France and Louis XIII.

Palais de Beaulieu

The Palais de Beaulieu is a convention centre and the venue of the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Paul-Alain Beaulieu

In contrast to the previous book by Raymond P. Dougherty, Beaulieu's book downplays the role of Nabonidus' heterodox religious beliefs in causing his split rule with his son Belshazzar, instead highlighting political and economic factors.

Rainer Kuhlmey

He has won several national titles (including the 1968 German Team Championships with Eintracht Frankfurt), took part in several international tournaments, such as Beaulieu and Cannes Championships, and represented Germany in the main draw of the 1971 French Open – Men's Singles competition at Roland Garros, Paris.

Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal

Richmond was established in 1850 as Beaulieu-on-Illovo by British Byrne Settlers who were originally from Beaulieu, the seat of the Duke of Buccleuch in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

St Augustine's Priory, Ealing

Lettice Mary Tredway, C.R.L., was a member of a French community of Canonesses Regular of the Lateran at the Priory of Notre-Dame-de-Beaulieu in the village of Sin-le-Noble, near Douai, in the County of Flanders, which provided nursing care to the region.

Upton Grey

Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as ‘by far the best house’ in Upton Grey, it is built on the site of a religious house called Edyndon, a monastery affiliated to the Abbey of Beaulieu in the New Forest.

Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Beaulieu served as a teacher of literature at the National Theatre School of Canada from 1972 to 1978, and also wrote for the Radio-Canada broadcasts "Documents", "Petit théâtre", "Roman", "La Feuillaison".