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2 unusual facts about Blanquefort, Gers


Blanquefort

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

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


Armagnac-Ténarèze

This area lies between Bas-Armagnac and Haut-Armagnac, covering the northwestern part of the department of Gers and the southern part of Lot-et-Garonne.

Blanquefort

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.

Borvo

Many of the sites where offerings to Borvo have been found are in Gaul: inscriptions to him have been found in Drôme at Aix-en-Diois, Bouches-du-Rhône at Aix-en-Provence, Gers at Auch, Allier at Bourbon-l'Archambault, Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Saône-et-Loire at Bourbon-Lancy, in Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Haute-Marne at Bourbonne-les-Bains and in Nièvre at Entrains-sur-Nohain.

Chalicotherium

Later on, limbs found in strata located at Sansan in the department of Gers, Southwestern France, were first described as Macrotherium by Édouard Lartet in 1837.

Chris Gulker

Gulker, anticipating the work of Jorn Barger, was the first to propose a network of bloggers and pioneered two of the most effective means through which blogging emerged as a social medium, the blogroll and link attribution.

Flaran Abbey

In 1913, the Archaeological Society of Gers intervened so that the abbey would not end up in the architectural collection of George Grey Barnard that resulted in The Cloisters museum in New York City.

Floc de Gascogne

The production area is spread across three regions: Gers, Lot-et-Garonne and the Landes.

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.

François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac

Abbé François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac (château de Marsan, Gers, 3 August 1757 – château de Cirey-sur-Blaise, Haute-Marne, 4 February 1832) was a French clergyman and politician.

Gers

A horse race at the Auteuil Hippodrome has been named after André Boingnères, a notable local race-horse owner and the successful mayor of Termes-d'Armagnac between 1951 and 1976.

Haut-Armagnac

It includes the eastern part of the department of Gers and a small part of Lot-et-Garonne.

Jean-Claude Sensemat

Sensemat was born in Fleurance in the Gers, and from 1970 to 2000, he founded and directed an import/export group of hand and power tool companies that bears his name.

Jerome Armstrong

In 2001, he founded MyDD, a blog which covered politics with an openly Democratic partisan perspective, making him one of the first political bloggers.

Paul Lacôme

Lacôme was born in Le Houga, Gers, in Gascony, the only child of an artistic and musical family.

Paul Noël Lasseran

These include Chapelle des Carmélites, Lectoure (1889), Église paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Goutz (1901–1903), Église Sainte-Blandine, Castet-Arrouy (1901) and Église Saint-Christophe, Masseube (Gers) 1932-1933.

Point After

In 2008, NFL Network cancelled this program and replaced it with Team Cam, which has a similar format but which also includes contributions from beat writers and bloggers.

Polastron

Polastron, Gers, a commune in the Gers département, in France

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.

Saint Lycerius

As Saint Lizier he is the patron of a number of places in south-western France, notably Saint-Lizier, where the cathedral is also dedicated to him; Saint-Lizier d'Ustou (Ariège); and Saint-Lizier-du-Planté (Gers).

Vincent Contenson

Vincent Contenson (born at Altivillare as Auvillar (Gers), Diocese of Condon, 1641; died Creil-sur-Oise, 26 December 1674) was a French Dominican theologian and preacher.

You're with me, leather

"You're with me, leather" or YWML as it is also known, is a phrase popular with sports website Deadspin, its readers and fellow sports bloggers, and has grown into an Internet phenomenon.


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