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30 unusual facts about Besançon


1972–73 French Rugby Union Championship

Olympique Besançon (Besançon) (promoted from second division)

1995 French Figure Skating Championships

The 1994–1995 competition took place in December 1994 in Bordeaux for singles and pairs and in Besançon for ice dance.

2006 French Figure Skating Championships

The 2005–2006 competition took place between December 9th and 11th, 2005 in Besançon.

Albert Savarus

Rosalie is the only daughter of the Wattevilles, a distinguished family of Besançon.

Aleksander Gabszewicz

Downed the same day, he made it to France where he became the CO of the 5th key of Groupe de Chasse III/10 covering Besançon.

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

His prison experience came to mind in 1772 when he proposed (in a contest sponsored by the Academy of Besançon) use of the potato as a source of nourishment for dysenteric patients.

Auguste Achintre

Achintre was born in Besançon, France, on 19 March 1834 to Guillaume-Auguste Achintre, a pharmacist, and Anne-Marie Duprey.

Band I

The fast growing of digital television in all European countries is accompanied by the progressive closedown of band I analog transmitters, e.g. former French-language Swiss Television transmitter at La Dôle near Geneva on channel E4 or French analog transmitters used by Canal Plus for its Pay-TV VHF network, e.g. Besançon (Lomont) and Carcassonne (Pic de Nore) both on French channel "L-3".

Carcariass

Carcariass is a technical death metal band, formed in 1996 in Besançon, in the center of Europe, making them one of the elder bands of the French underground.

Christian Dornier

Dornier was kept under heavy guard in a hospital in Besançon, to make sure he did not escape, as well as for his own protection, since locals had uttered threats against him.

Cully, Switzerland

The first document involving Cully, saw it given to the King of Besançon.

Dyfed Wyn-Evans

Dyfed Wyn-Evans' operatic work includes appearances for Grange Park Opera, English Touring Opera, Broomhill Opera, and the Buxton Festival, and has performed the role of The Podestat in Bizet's Le Docteur Miracle, one of the most challenging of all baritone roles, at the Voray Festival in Besançon.

Energy Cities

1994-1997 City of Besançon (FR), represented by Robert Schwint, Mayor of Besançon

George Seton, 4th Earl of Winton

Lord Winton was accomplished in the knowledge of arms, and gave proof of his skill and gallantry serving with the French army at the siege of Besançon in 1660.

Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose

Entering the magistracy, he became attorney-general for the district of Besançon in 1830, but having received holy orders at Strasburg, under the episcopate of Jean François Marie Lepappe de Trevern, he was made professor of sacred eloquence in the school of higher studies founded at Besançon by Cardinal de Rohan.

Internationaux du Doubs – Open de Franche-Comté

It was held annually in Besançon, France, as a Satellite from 1996 to 1998 and as a Challenger from 1999 until 2009.

Jacques Bouveresse

Born on 20 August 1940 in Épenoy in the Doubs département of France into a farming family, Jacques Bouveresse completed his secondary education at the seminary of Besançon.

Otto I, Duke of Bavaria

In the Dominium mundi conflict between emperor and pope culminating at the 1157 Reichstag of Besançon (Bisanz), fiery Otto could only be kept from smiting the papal legate Cardinal Rolando Bandinelli by the personal intervention of Frederick.

Pierre Villette

His bad health forced him to move from mountainous Besançon to a warmer climate, and he became director of the Academy at Aix en Provence in 1967.

In 1957 Villette was appointed director of the Conservatoire in Besançon, the capital of the Franche-Comté region.

Pierre-Michel Duffieux

After the war, Duffieux moved to Besançon and became the chair of optics at the university.

Reichsadler

The Reichsadler was widely used by Imperial cities such as Lübeck, Besançon or Cheb to underline their immediacy.

Robert Marie Jean Victor de Chevigny

Chevigny was born in Besançon, France and was ordained a priest on 3 October 1948 in the Holy Ghost Fathers.

Samuel Naumbourg

After having held the office of chazzan and reader at Besançon and directed the choir of the synagogue at Strasburg, he was called, in 1845, to officiate in the synagogue of the Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth at Paris, where he became professor of liturgical music at the Séminaire Israélite.

Sisters of Divine Charity

The Sisters of Divine Charity were founded at Besançon, in 1799, by a Vincentian Sister, and modelled on the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul.

Synagogue of Besançon

A Jewish community formed in Free Imperial City of Besançon in the 14th century, after the expulsion of Jews from the Kingdom of France, but was forced to leave shortly thereafter.

Szymon Konarski

Released, in March 1832 Konarski arrived in Besançon, France, where he took up clock making as a trade.

Tarot of Marseilles

One variant of the Tarot de Marseille, now called the Swiss Tarot or the Tarot of Besançon, removes the controversial Papess and Pope and, in their stead, puts Juno with her peacock, and Jupiter with his eagle.

Yutaka Sado

Sado won first prize and became the third Japanese winner (after Seiji Ozawa in 1959 and Yoko Matsuo in 1982) at the 39th annual International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in Besançon, France in 1989.

Zacharias Chrysopolitanus

Zacharias Chrysopolitanus, also known as Zachary of Besançon, was from Besançon (Chrysopolis) and died about 1155.


Arguel inscription

It was claimed to have been discovered by a student of law, Robert Milliat, next to a spring at the foot of a cliff at Arguel in the French Doubs department, just south of Besançon.

Besançon Hugues

Besançon Hugues (b. 1487 - d. 1532) was a member of the Grand Council of Geneva and participated in the rebellion against the rule of the Savoy dynasty, which led to the independence of Geneva in 1526.

Casimir Freschot

Born in Morteau around 1640, he became a novice in the benedictine Saint-Maur congregation, and was ordained on Marc 20, 1663 in the Saint-Vincent de Besançon monastery.

Claude-Max Lochu

French artist, painter and designer, Claude-Max Lochu was born in 1951 in Delle in Territoire de Belfort, Franche-Comté and completed his degree at the École des Beaux-Arts of Besançon.

Dominique Avon

He is also the author of La Fragilité des clercs ("The Frailty of the Intellectuals", untranslated), an essay in which he analyses the thought of Samuel P. Huntington, Tariq Ramadan, Georges Corm, Alain Besançon and Alain Finkielkraut.

Franche-Comté

The principal cities are the capital Besançon, Belfort, and Montbéliard (Aire Urbaine Belfort-Montbéliard-Héricourt-Delle).

Free City of Besançon

Besançon became part of the Holy Roman Empire in 1034 and in 1134, as the Archbishopric of Besançon, it gained autonomy as a free imperial city under the Holy Roman Emperor.

French nobility

High positions in regional parlements, tax boards (chambres des comptes), and other important financial and official state offices (usually bought at high price) conferred nobility, generally in two generations, although membership in the Parlements of Paris, Dauphiné, Besançon and Flanders, as well as on the tax boards of Paris, Dole and Grenoble elevated an official to nobility in one generation.

Hugues Sambin

As an architect, he worked on the designs for temporary festive structures for the Royal entry into Dijon of Henri II and that of Charles IX (1564), for which Sambin was coordinator; in more lasting commissions, he built the Parlement of Besançon and the structure that is palais de Justice at Dijon, built to house the Parlement of Burgundy (1572).

Jean Le Moal

Several retrospectives have been dedicated to Le Moal’s work, including at Musée de Lubeck and Musée de Wuppertal (1961), Musée de Metz and Musée de la Ville de Luxembourg (1963), Musées de Rennes, Chartres, Rouen, Dijon, Lille and Caen (1970–1971), "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" and Musées de Besançon, Esch-sur-Alzette, Dunkerque and Nantes (1990–1992).

Jean Minjoz Hospital

The Jean Minjoz Hospital is a large hospital in Besançon in the French region of Franche-Comté.

Leilei Tian

She has been awarded the Prix de Rome, and other awards from the Besançon Composition Competition for orchestra in France, the Contemporary Music Contest "Citta' di Udine" in Italy, Composition Competition of GRAME in Lyon, Gaudeamus Competition in Amsterdam and International Society of Contemporary Music Cash Young Composer's Award.

Lomont

A high power sound broadcasting and television transmitting station is operated by TDF in the forest near the village to serve Besançon and the Franche-Comté county.

Mamirolle

It is situated at the foot of a wooded hill and is crossed by the railroad from Besançon to Le Locle.

Marcelle de Lacour

Marcelle de Lacour was born Marcelle Schaeffer at Besançon, France, the capital of the department of Doubs, France.

Paulin J. Hountondji

After two years teaching in Besancon (France), in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi (Republic of the Congo), he accepted a post at the Université Nationale du Bénin in Cotonou, where he still teaches as Professor of Philosophy.

Philippe Nys

Function of Aesthetic in Modern Society (1962) from Joachim Ritter, translated from German by Gérard Raulet (1978), with “The Mont Ventoux Ascension” from Petrarch, the poem of Schiller “The Walking”, a commentary of Massimo Venturi Ferriolo and a general introduction of Philippe Nys,Paris-Besançon, Editions de l’Imprimeur, collection Jardins et Paysages.

Pierre Hétu

He studied in Paris with Marcel Ciampi (piano) and Edouard Lindenberg (conducting), and in 1961, following studies with Sergiu Celibidache, he won the Concours International des Jeunes Chefs d'Orchestre in Besançon.

Pierre-Adrien Pâris

Pâris was born at Besançon, the son of an architect and official surveyor at the court of the Prince-Bishop of Basel.

TER Franche-Comté

Besançon-Morteau-La Chaux-de-Fonds : this line has been certified by French normes in 2005.