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38 unusual facts about Blois


Aeroflying Sensation

It was introduced at the French Hombuilders Rally in Blois in 2007.

Aleinu

In Blois, France, in 1171, many Jews—reportedly 34 men and 17 women—were burned at the stake for refusing to renounce their faith.

Antoine Boësset

Born at Blois and baptised there on 24 February 1587, he was made master of the children within the musical household of the Chambre du roi in 1613.

Battle of Pontlevoy

The Battle of Pontlevoy was fought on 6 July 1016 between the forces of Fulk III of Anjou and Herbert I of Maine on one side and Odo II of Blois on the other.

Blois Cathedral

The Cathedral of St. Louis of Blois, commonly referred to as Blois Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Blois; Cathédrale Blois) is a Late Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral in Blois, France.

Blois family

Although the family have lived in the region for several decades they were not given the estate by the landed gentry from Blois following the invasion by the Normans in the 11th century.

Château de Chaumont

The castle was founded in the 10th century by Odo I, Count of Blois.

Corinne Trang

Born in November 1967 in Blois in the Loire Valley of France to a French mother and Cambodian-Chinese father, Trang was raised in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Paris and New York City.

Counts of Blois

The County of Blois was originally centred on Blois, south of Paris, France.

Charles de Blois, son of Guy I, Count of Blois, married Joan of Penthievre, the heiress of John III, Duke of Brittany; together, they became principal protagonists in the War of the Breton Succession.

Upon the death of his only son, Guy II, Count of Blois sold the county to Louis I, Duke of Orléans and the county passed to the French royal family.

Bertha of Blois, the daughter of Odo II of Blois, became Duchess Consort of Brittany through her marriage to Alan II, Duke of Brittany.

Felix Wakefield

When he eventually finished his training he rejoined his father, now in exile in Blois, France.

Florimond III Robertet d'Alluye

In April 1562, he and Robertet de Fresne were sent to Orléans with the Prince of Conde, who after the massacre of Vassy, grabbed Orléans, Blois, Tours, Angers and Le Mans.

Gabriel Sionita

In 1619, the assembly of French clergy at Blois granted 8,000 livres to support the undertaking; but through some malversation of funds, this money was never actually paid; at least, such is the accusation brought by Gabriel in his preface to the Syriac Psalter, which he published.

Hildebert

He sent letters and poetry to Adela of Normandy advising her on clemency, and praised her regency of Blois.

Houde Bimax

The Houde Bimax is a French ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Patrice Houde, introduced at the Blois homebuilt aircraft fly-in in September 2010.

International Association of Visual Semiotics

In its beginnings, the IAVS used the journal EIDOS, Bulletin international de sémiologie de l’image, created previously by the research group with the same name in Blois (François Rabelais University, Tours), as the organ of research.

After the foundational congress in Blois, the second congress of the IAVS was held in Bilbao, Spain, in 1992, while the third congress was integrated with the international congress of the AIS-IASS (International Association for Semiotic Studies) held at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, in 1994.

Jean-Louis Agobet

Jean-Louis Agobet (Blois Loir-et-Cher, 21 April 1968) is a French composer.

LCA LH 212 Delta

The first flight was in 2010 and marketing began in September 2011 at the Blois international ultra light show.

Mame Biram Diouf

On 12 August 2009, Diouf won his first cap for Senegal in a 2–1 friendly win over Congo DR in Blois, France.

Nicolas de Barry

In France he bought the Château de Frileuse near Blois in the Loire Valley where he has set up a perfume Atelier and a garden of scents.

Nicolas Lebègue

He was equally famous as an expert on organ building: in this capacity, Lebègue travelled as far as Bourges, Blois, Chartres, Soissons, and Troyes.

Pascual de Gayangos y Arce

After completing his primary education in Madrid, at the age of thirteen he was sent to school at Pont-le-Voy near Blois.

Revolt of 1173–74

The Young King and his French mentor created a wide alliance against Henry II by promising land and revenues in England and Anjou to the Counts of Flanders, Boulogne, and Blois.

Robert Morison

On Robin's recommendation Morison became director of the Royal Gardens at Blois, Central France, a post which he subsequently held for ten years.

Robert Pipon Marett

He was admitted to the Bar of Jersey as advocate in 1845, but in 1846 the family moved to Blois in France as a result of his mother's ill health.

Sawt el Atlas

The group first came together in the late 1980s in the French city of Blois, when most of its members were teenagers or even younger.

Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement

Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement (Gonneville-la-Mallet 1840- Blois 1905) is a French architectural photographer specialized in monument historique.

Sivan

On 20 Sivan, 1171, tens of Jewish men and women were burned alive in the French town of Blois on the infamous accusation that Jews used the blood of Christian children in the preparation of matzah for Passover.

The forty-five guards

After the Catholic League revolt in Paris, King Henry III was forced to flee to Blois, there, he staged a coup, regaining control of the Estates-General by employing the Forty-five to kill Henry I, Duke of Guise when he came to meet the king at the Château de Blois on 23 December 1588, and his brother, Louis II, Cardinal of Guise, the following day.

Theobald VI, Count of Blois

The northern part of Blois was erected into the County of Chartres for Isabelle; Margaret received the remainder of the County of Blois, and he sold Clermont to the crown before he died.

Theobald VI of Blois (French: Thibaut) (died 1218) was count of Blois and Clermont-en-Beauvaisis from 1205 to 1218.

After living withdrawn in his castle in La Ferté-Villeneuil for a few years he died in 1218, leaving his possessions to his aunts Margaret and Isabelle.

Thibaud Gaudin

Born to a noble family in the area of Chartres or Blois, France, he entered the Knights Templar well before 1260, because on that date he was taken prisoner during an attack on Tiberias.

Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans

Valentina outlived her husband by only a little over a year, dying at Blois at the age of 40.

Vandalism of art

The term vandalisme was coined in 1794 by Henri Grégoire, bishop of Blois, to describe the destruction of artwork following the French Revolution.


Andon, Alpes-Maritimes

In 1384 and between January and October 1385, a gang leader called Vita de Blois was present at Thorenc who seized the lordship on behalf of the Count of Savoy.

Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne

In the 1230s, in order to settle with Alice, Theobald IV had to sell his overlordship over the counties of Blois, Sancerre, and Châteaudun to Louis IX of France.

Château de Beauregard, Loire Valley

It is located on the territory of the commune of Cellettes, a little south of the city of Blois and a few miles from other famous Loire châteaux such as Cheverny.

Congregation of Jesus and Mary

After his death, directors were appointed for the Seminaries of Valognes, Avranches, Dol, Senlis, Blois, Domfront and Séez.

Denis Pyramus

In the 19th century the original story of Parthénopéus de Blois served as a broad basis for Alfred Blau's libretto Esclarmonde, later turned into an opera by Jules Massenet.

Guy I of Montlhéry

Milo I the Great, (also called Milon I) lord of Monthléry, married Lithuaise, sister of Stephen of Blois.

Guy II, Count of Blois

Guy II of Blois-Châtillon (died December 22, 1397), the youngest son of Louis I of Châtillon and Joan of Avesnes, was count of Blois and lord of Avesnes, Schoonhoven, and Gouda 1381–1397, and lord of Beaumont and Chimay.

Interloire

The Interloire is a French train service run by TER Centre and TER Pays de la Loire linking Orléans to Le Croisic via Blois, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, Saumur, Angers and Nantes.

Italian War of 1499–1504

If the King Louis XII were to die without producing a male heir, Charles of the House of Habsburg would receive as dowry the Duchy of Milan, Genoa and its dependencies, the Duchy of Brittany, the counties of Asti and Blois, the Duchy of Burgundy, the Viceroyalty of Auxonne, Auxerrois, Mâconnais and Bar-sur-Seine.

Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet

In 1814, after the Six Days Campaign, Bachasson accompanied Empress Marie Louise all the way to Blois, and then retired to his property in Montmeyran.

Paul Delaroche

His dramatic paintings include Strafford Led to Execution, depicting the English Archbishop Laud stretching his arms out of the small high window of his cell to bless Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, as Strafford passes along the corridor to be executed, and the Assassination of the duc de Guise at Blois.

Robert Bemborough

He was challenged to single combat by Jean de Beaumanoir, the captain of Josselin, the nearest stronghold controlled by the French-supported Blois faction.

Robert of Winchester

He was author of De actibus Willelmi et Henrici episcoporum Wintoniæ, printed in Henry Wharton's Anglia Sacra, biographies of William Giffard and Henry of Blois.

William of Blois

William, Count of Sully (c.1085–c.1150), count of Blois from 1102–07, brother of King Stephen of England