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6 unusual facts about Beauvais


Abbeyshrule

Abbeyshrule is Growing popular for midland business affairs, being geographically well situated, between major urban centres such as Athlone, Longford, Mullingar, permitting business swift access to Paris Beauvais.

Ernulf

Ernulf studied under Lanfranc at the monastery of Bec, entered the Benedictine Order, and lived long as a brother in the monastery of St-Lucien, Beauvais.

Fermilab

The design of the administrative building (Wilson Hall) harks back to St. Pierre's Cathedral in Beauvais, France, and several of the buildings and sculptures within the Fermilab reservation represent various mathematical constructs as part of their structure.

Henri Frémart

Henri Frémart (Beauvais, Picardy c.1595 – 1651) was a French priest and composer.

James de Givenchy

Born and raised in France, Givenchy grew up in Beauvais, a small town in the suburbs of Paris where the Parfums Givenchy has its factory and where his Father, Jean Claude Taffin de Givenchy (1925–2009) and his uncle, Hubert James Marcel Taffin De Givenchy, the famous fashion designer (b. 1927), were born.

Lucian of Beauvais

Nevertheless, the foundation of the diocese of Beauvais is traditionally attributed to him.


1358

May 28 – The Jacquerie: A peasant rebellion begins in France during the Hundred Years' War, which consumes the Beauvais and allies with Étienne Marcel's seizure of Paris.

Andrea Hewitt

Hewitt did not take part at Beauvais and Paris, where Hollie Avil was the best triathlete of her club.

Thus in 2010 again Beauvais owes its first place in the overall ranking of the French Club Championship to Andrea Hewitt and Hollie Avil, Anja Dittmer, and Vickie Holland.

Battle of Mello

This army moved into the Beauvais, preparing to strike at the peasants who had set up camp at the plateau above Mello near Silly-le-Long.

Charlotte Morel

Morel and the several times National and European champion Frédéric Belaubre, who is also part of the elite centre CREPS PACA in Boulouris and also represented the elite team of Beauvais (until 2011), are a couple.

Counts and dukes of Valois

It was, along with the counties of Beauvais, the Vexin, Vermandois, and Laon, part of the "Oise line" of fiefdom which were held often by one individual or by an individual family as a string of defences against Viking assault on Paris.

Delphine Py-Bilot

Since 2003 Delphine Py represented the club Beauvais Triathlon in the prestigious French Club Championship Series Lyonnaise des Eaux and, apart from Charlotte Morel and Delphine Pelletier she was the only French triathlete in the female team of this club, which almost exclusively relied on its international guest stars like Andrea Hewitt and in 2009 won both the Club Championship Series and the national Club Championship at Gruissan.

Emmie Charayron

The winning club, Beauvais, however, owed its success almost exclusively to the international stars Hollie Avil, Anja Dittmer, Andrea Hewitt and Vickie Holland.

Galon

Galon or Gallon - bishop of Beauvais (c. 1099-1104) and Paris (1104-1116).

Germain Louis Chauvelin

In the same year, he married the rich heiress Anne Cahouet de Beauvais, daughter of the 'Premier président du bureau des finances de la généralité d’Orléans'.

Guillaume d'Ercuis

He derived his name from his small seigneurie of Ercuis (Old French Arcuys or Erquez; Latin Arquetum) in the Beauvaisis between Neuilly-en-Thelle and Cires-lès-Mello, about 55 km from Paris.

Jacquerie

The bourgeoisie of Beauvais, Senlis, Paris, Amiens and Meaux, sorely pressed by the court party, accepted the Jacquerie, and the urban underclass were sympathetic.

Jeanne Hachette

All that she is currently known for is an act of heroism on 27 June 1472, when she prevented the capture of Beauvais by the troops of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

Mauron

Many corpses were left on the field of battle, including the marshal of Offemont, the comte of Marche, the lords Bricquebec, Beauvais, Alain VII (11th vicomte Rohan), Tinténiac and a significant number of knights (around 140).

Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein

In Vienna on 24 October 1713 Maria Theresia married Thomas Emmanuel, Count of Soissons and Governor of Antwerp (born on 8 December 1687), second son of Louis Thomas of Savoy-Carignano and his wife Uranie de La Cropte de Beauvais.

Stephen of Alinerre

Stephen of Alinerre or Stephen of Beauvais was a student of Gilbert de la Porrée and canon of Beauvais.

William Beauvais

More recently Beauvais has devoted much time to his own creative output writing music for The Montreal Guitar Trio, the Canadian Music Centre, Jeffrey McFadden and the Echo Women's Choir.


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