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5 unusual facts about Blanquefort


Blanquefort

Blanquefort, Gers, a commune in the Gers department in south-western France

Blanquefort, Gironde, an outlying commune of the Bordeaux agglomeration

Blanquefort, Gironde

Since 1972 Blanquefort has been the location of a Ford transmission plant which occupies a 103 hectare site in the industrial zone.

Ford C3 transmission

The Bordeaux Automatic Transmission Plant, in Blanquefort, France (in the Bordeaux metropolitan area) produces automatic transmissions for a variety of rear-wheel drive vehicles.

House of Roquefeuil-Blanquefort

It was named after its possession at Blanquefort and a inheritance from Catherine de Roquefeuil in 1381, and its members included


Romance of Flamenca

The author was probably not a minstrel, but rather a cleric, most likely in the service of the Roquefeuil family at the court of Alga, and may have written the romance at the Benedictine monastery at Nant, Aveyron, and was erudite and may have even studied at the University of Paris.


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