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unusual facts about Bergerac, Dordogne


Battle of Bergerac

An Anglo-Gascon Army commanded by Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, defeated a French force under Henri de Montigny, Seneschal of Périgord, outside the walls of Bergerac, leading to the loss of the town.


7 Valleys Pas de Calais

Depicted by The Sunday Times, UK, as Northern France’s best kept secret, the Seven Valleys is also called the Artois Valleys abounding in “rolling contours, as green and bushy as anything you will come across in Dordogne”.

Abri de la Madeleine

The Abri de la Madeleine (The Magdalene shelter) is a prehistoric shelter under an overhanging cliff situated near Tursac, in the Dordogne département and the Aquitaine Région of South-Western France.

Albert Guillaume

Albert Guillaume died during the occupation in the rural village of Faux in the Dordogne département of France in 1942.

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.

Brian Finch

He also contributed several episodes to prominent British detective programmes such as The Gentle Touch, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Bergerac and The Bill.

Cabanes du Breuil

The designation Cabanes du Breuil is applied to the former agricultural dependencies of a farm located at the place known as Calpalmas at Saint-André-d'Allas, in the Dordogne department in France.

Castang

Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang, a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France

Château de Bellegarde

The Château de Bellegarde is a 14th-century château located at Lamonzie-Montastruc in Dordogne in France.

Château de Gageac

On the wine trail between Bergerac (18 km) and Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (12 km), this castle is one of the most charming of South Bergerac, overlooking the Dordogne valley and surrounded by vineyards whose wine has an international reputation.

Château de la Brangelie

It is on the western edge of the département of Dordogne, 500 metres north-northwest of the town of Vanxains.

Château de la Roque

Château de la Roque, or the château de la Roque des Péagers, is a château located in Meyrals in the Périgord in the Dordogne, Aquitane, France.

Château de Pécany

The Château de Pécany is a castle located in the commune of Pomport, in the Dordogne Valley in France.

Château de Puymartin

The Château de Puymartin is a castle in the commune of Marquay, France, located between Sarlat (8 km) and Les Eyzies (11 km), in the Dordogne department.

Duc de La Force

The title of Duc de La Force, pair de France was created in 1637 for members of the Caumont family, who were lords of the village of La Force in the Dordogne.

Faucher

La Chapelle-Faucher is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.

François Jaffrennou

He retired to Le Mans and then to Bergerac, where he died on March 23, 1956.

French News

French News was a monthly newspaper, based in Périgueux, Dordogne, France, published in English and distributed mostly in France.

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).

German submarine U-547

U-547 was damaged by a mine on 13 August 1944 in the Gironde (where the mouths of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers merge), near Pauillac in western France; she then retraced part of the route of her first patrol, arriving at Marviken in Kristiansand on 29 September and moving on to Flensburg on 4 October.

Guilhem de la Tor

The tor (tower, castle) that was Guilhem's birthplace does not survive, but it was in the vicinity of the modern town of La Tour-Blanche, Dordogne.

Harry Landis

More characteristically, he was cast in Jack Rosenthal's one-man show Bar Mitzvah Boy (BBC, 1976); played one of Arthur Daley's crooked cronies in Minder (1982), and has had roles in Bergerac (1987); Howards' Way (1985); You Rang, M'Lord? (1990) and Jeeves and Wooster (1991).

Ian Garrow

Garrow was arrested by Vichy French police in October 1941 and later interned at Mauzac (Dordogne).

Jean Carzou

Jean Carzou (1907, Aleppo, Syria – August 12, 2000, Marsac-sur-l'Isle, Dordogne, France), born Karnik Zouloumian, was a French Armenian artist, painter and illustrator, whose work illustrated the novels of Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus.

Jean-Baptiste Lemire

After the outbreak of the first world war he leaves the Union, only to be found again for six months in 1916 as the head of the Harmonie de Lalinde (Dordogne).

Jill Meager

She had a role in the 'unofficial' James Bond film Never Say Never Again in 1983 and has also appeared in several television shows, including Taggart, Bergerac and Hannay.

Laurence Moody

Subsequently, he has originated and worked such television drama serials as Shoestring, Bergerac, Boon, Taggart, Soldier, Soldier, Chancer, and (more recently) Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.

Lill Roughley

Roughley had minor roles in the 1970s and 1980s in programmes including All the Fun of the Fair, Tales of the Unexpected, Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, Bergerac and Inspector Morse.

Magdalenian

It is named after the type site of La Madeleine, a rock shelter located in the Vézère valley, commune of Tursac, in the Dordogne department of France.

Marie Clotilde Bonaparte

Anne de Witt (b. 28 September 1953 in Bergerac, France) married Henry Robert de Rancher (1949–1995) on June 7, 1975, in Cendrieux, France, and had two sons.

Montravel

Lamothe-Montravel, a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in south-western France

Nontron knife

The Nontron knife is a traditional wooden-handled knife manufactured in the village of Nontron in the Dordogne area of southern France, in a tradition said to date back to the 15th century.

Order of Interbeing

Plum Village Buddhist Center in the Dordogne region of France is established by TNH and Sister Chan Khong

Peyre-Brune

Peyre-Brune is a Neolithic dolmen situated near Saint-Aquilin in the Dordogne, France.

Philippe de Culant

He accompanied the heir to the throne, the future King Louis XI of France, on campaign in Germany in 1444 and served in many of the successful sieges which brought the Hundred Years' War to an end, including those of Taillebourg, Le Mans, Château Gaillard, Rouen, Bayeux, Caen, Cherbourg, and Bergerac.

Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia

During the 1970s Xenia and Geoffrey Tooth (b. 1 September 1908) settled at Rouffignac, in the Dordogne, France.

Sébastien Bonetti

Sébastien Bonetti (born 22 September 1977 in Bergerac), is a French rugby union player.

Simon Cadell

Other television credits include, Minder, Bergerac, The Kenny Everett Television Show and Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected.

The Duellists

The main locations used for shooting the film were in and around Sarlat-la-Canéda in the Dordogne region of France.

The Plains of Passage

The Plains of Passage describes the journey of Ayla and Jondalar west along the Great Mother River (the Danube), from the home of The Mammoth Hunters (roughly modern Ukraine) to Jondalar's homeland (close to Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France).

The Riff Raff Element

The Riff Raff Element was a 1990s British television series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock, who also directed Dressing for Breakfast and episodes of The Bill and Bergerac.

The Wishing Tree

When Marillion were recording Brave at Miles Copeland's Chateau Marouatte in Dordogne in 1993, Copeland offered Rothery "a substantial sum" for recording an instrumental solo album on his label No Speak.

Thiviers-Payzac Unit

The Thiviers-Payzac Unit, sometimes still called Thiviers-Payzac Nappe or Bas-Limousin Group, was named after Thiviers and Payzac, two small towns in the northeastern Dordogne situated within the unit's outcrop area.

Just northwest of Terrasson in the eastern Dordogne there is an upfaulted basement high, that is also included within the main unit.

The unit starts just west of Thiviers in the northern Dordogne and then follows for 70 kilometres a semicircular arc segment, passing through Lanouaille, Payzac, Orgnac, Donzenac and finishing just east of Brive in the Corrèze.

Walter Manny, 1st Baron Manny

Manny also took part in the campaigns of the Earl of Derby in Guyenne, being present at the battles of Bergerac and Auberoche.


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