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31 unusual facts about Billancourt


Alvar Suñol Munoz-Ramos

In 2008, he also created a sculpture of Catalan cellist Pablo Casals, in the Boulogne Billancourt of Paris.

Barbara Cassin

Barbara Cassin (born October 24, 1947) is a French philologist and philosopher, born in 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt.

Come into My World

The accompanying video features Kylie strolling around a city block within the Boulogne-Billancourt suburb of Paris, France.

Delired Cameleon Family

After the release of Clearlight Symphony, the band returned to France to record their next album in March 1975 at the Pathé Marconi studios in Boulogne, Paris under the name Delired Cameleon Family.

Farman F.480 Alizé

The second prototype was certified the same day; ten more Alizés, already built in the Billancourt factory were also approved the following day.

Farman Moustique

The Farman Moustique is a family of French monoplanes built by the Société des Aéroplanes Henry et Maurice Farman and Billancourt.

Felix Pollaczek

Félix Pollaczek (1 December 1892 in Vienna – 29 April 1981 at Boulogne-Billancourt) was an Austrian-French engineer and mathematician, known for numerous contributions to number theory, mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and probability theory.

Georges Cipriani

In the late 1960s, he worked as a milling machine operator in the machine tool workshop of the Renault-Billancourt factory.

Guy Mazeline

Guy Mazeline (12 April 1900 Le Havre - 25 May 1996 Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French writer, who won the prix Goncourt in 1932.

Henri Cogan

Henri Cogan (born 13 September 1924 in Paris; † 23 September 2003 in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French actor and stuntman.

Île-de-France

The most populated towns of the Petite Couronne are Boulogne-Billancourt, Montreuil, Saint-Denis, Nanterre and Créteil.

India Song

Finding the main location took several months; eventually Duras chose the Palais Rothschild in Boulogne, which she had seen during a walk and which had impressed her.

Jacques Boyer

Boyer raced as an amateur in Europe from 1973, after joining the ACBB club in the Parisian suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt.

Jacques Huntzinger

Huntzinger was born on 8 Jan 1943 in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt.

Joseph-Ermend Bonnal

In 1901, Ermend-Bonnard was appointed Organist at Saint-Médard, and subsequently at Notre Dame in Boulogne-sur-Seine.

Keny Arkana

Arkana was born on 20 December 1982 to an Argentine family in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, and raised in Marseille.

Laffly

Founded in 1849, the Laffly company began manufacturing utility vehicles in Billancourt in 1912.

Marie Sara

Marie Sara (born in Boulogne-Billancourt on June 27, 1964) is known for being a female bullfighter.

Michel Suret-Canale

Born in the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt on March 4, 1957, Michel Suret-Canale spent his childhood in the artistic center of Paris, growing up in the home of his grandfather, medalist and publisher of art medals Victor S. Canale (1883–1958) who was also a sculptor, ceramicist, printmaker and inventor.

Musée Albert-Kahn

The Musée Albert-Kahn is a national museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, at 14, rue du Port, including four hectares of gardens, joining together landscape scenes of various national traditions.

Nessbeal

Nabil Sahli better known by his stage name Nessbeal (born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, on 16 August 1978) is a French rapper of Moroccan origin.

Nabil Sahli was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the western suburbs of Paris, to a Moroccan family.

Olivier Rolin

Olivier Rolin (born 14 May 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer.

Paris Métro Line 9

The line links Pont de Sèvres in Boulogne in the west with Montreuil in the east via the city center of Paris, creating a parabola type shape to its route.

Paul Landowski

He died in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris, where a museum dedicated to his work has over 100 works on display.

People in Sorrow

People in Sorrow is a 1969 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in Boulogne for the French Pathé-Marconi label, later reissued in the US on Nessa Records.

Raoul Lachenal

The son of Edmond Lachenal, Raoul Lachenal worked in his father’s studio until 1911, when he established a new workshop at Boulogne-sur-Seine.

Renault Étoile Filante

The car was completely dismantled in the workshops of Renault at the Billancourt factory in Paris, the chassis was resprayed and the engine repaired.

Simon Ghraichy

After a cosmopolitan childhood and teenage life (Lebanon, Mexico, Canada), Simon Ghraichy landed in Paris and enters the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Boulogne-Billancourt at the age of 16.

Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet

Ashbourne Hall was leased in 1814 (parish records show that in 1817 Sir Richard Arkwright's grandson, also Richard, was living there) and he settled in diminished circumstances in Boulogne in 1815 and died there in 1824.

The Scent of Green Papaya

Although set in Vietnam, the film was shot entirely on a soundstage in Boulogne, France.


Adventures of Captain Fabian

Exteriors representing New Orleans were recreated in the city of Villefranche with studio scenes shot at the Victorine Studio in Nice and the Billancourt Studio in Paris.

Boun Oum

He died in Boulogne-Billancourt, France in 1981 and his ashes are buried at the Cimetiere de Trivaux in Meudon France,next to his wife Princess Bouaphanh na Champassak (b. 1920- d. 2013).

Gusztáv Sebes

He then worked as a trade union organiser in both Budapest and later, Paris, where he was employed as a fitter for four years with Renault at Billancourt.

Hélie de Noailles

On 11 March 1972, de Noailles married Cécile Nadèje Marie Paule Gonin (born 25 November 1945, Boulogne-Billancourt) at Épinay-Champlâtreux.

March for Equality and Against Racism

In 1983, the Socialist Prime Minister of France Pierre Mauroy, the Minister of the Interior Gaston Defferre, and the Minister of Labour Jean Auroux said about the strikers of the CGT's syndicate from the factory of Renault-Billancourt, that they are mainly "immigrants workers", and accused them of being manipulated by "integrists".

Meriem Wangari

She has won half marathons in Bristol, Bath, Lille, Boulogne-Billancourt, as well as Gothenburg and Marrakech.

Nessbeal

When his parents divorced he went to live with his mother in difficult conditions in Hautes Noues in Villiers-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne an eastern suburb of Paris, whereas his father stayed in Boulogne-Billancourt.

Revaz Gigauri

Gigauri moved to France, where he has been playing for Montluçon Rugby (2006/07-2007/08), RC Massy (2008/09), GS Figeac (2009/10) and Boulogne-Billancourt, since 2010/11.

Yves Manglou

From the end of 1960 to 1975, Manglou successively held the position of Director of Social & Cultural Institutions in Sainte-Suzanne, Soisy-sous-Montmorency and Boulogne-Billancourt.