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unusual facts about Bouches-de-la-Meuse


Maarten van der Goes van Dirxland

After France's annexation of Holland in 1810, Van der Goes entered the First French Empire's Corps législatif as the representative of the department of Bouches-de-la-Meuse.


1960–61 Winter General Strike

Also the Dardenne brothers, with for instance Lorsque le bateau de Léon M. descendit la Meuse pour la première fois (1979), Thierry Michel with Hiver 60 Chronique des saisons d'acier etc.

Arboretum de la Pipe Qui Fume

The Arboretum de la Pipe Qui Fume (4 hectares) is an arboretum located in the Forêt Domaniale des Hazelles at Bogny-sur-Meuse, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France.

Barnwell R. Legge

Major Legge subsequently participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and personally lead an attack against a strong enemy position.

Berwinne

From there the Berwinne river flows, generally spoken, in northwestern direction, through places like Val-Dieu Abbey, Dalhem and Moelingen, before joining the Meuse between Visé and the Dutch border.

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.

Bouches-de-l'Èbre

Its prefecture was in Lleida and its subprefectures were Tortosa, Cervera and Tarragona and its only prefect was Alban de Villeneuve-Bargemont, who had previously been auditor to the Council of State and sub prefect of Zierickzée (a subprefecture of the department of Bouches-de-l'Escaut).

Camille Roqueplan

He was born Camille-Joseph-Étienne Roqueplan (sometimes spelled Rocoplan) in Mallemort, Bouches-du-Rhône, and died in Paris.

Canton of Marseille – Notre-Dame-du-Mont

Canton of Marseille – Notre-Dame-du-Mont is a canton located within the commune of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of France.

Canton of Marseille – Sainte-Marguerite

Canton of Marseille – Sainte-Marguerite is a canton of France, located within the commune of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Having secured Longwy and Verdun without serious resistance, he turned back after a mere skirmish in Valmy, and evacuated France.

Claude-Étienne Michel

Exchanged on 3 Messidor year III, he rejoined his regiment, and reported at the vanguard of the army of Sambre and Meuse.

Clerics Regular of Our Savior

The congregation was founded in 1851, at the former Norbertine Abbey of Benoite-Vaux in the Department of Meuse.

CroisiEurope

In France, CroisiEurope sail on the Seine, the Rhône, the Saône, the Gironde, the Meuse, and the Rhine; in Italy, on the Po; in Spain, on the Guadalquivir; in Portugal, on the Guadiana and the Douro; in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, on the Rhine; in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Romania, on the Danube; and in Germany, on the Havel and the Oder.

E. Donald Sterner

He was salvage officer with the 2nd Infantry Division and was engaged in the Second Battle of the Marne, the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Earl J. Atkisson

This regiment arrived in France on March 10, 1918 and eventually participated in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihel, and Meuse-Argonne operations.

Edward F. Younger

Those remaining were interred in the Meuse Argonne Cemetery, France.

Emmanuel Halgan

The French-held fortresses were later ordered abandoned due to the advances of the Allies, and the Meuse flotilla was scuttled in Willemstad.

Etain

Étain, France, a commune in the Meuse département in France

Fontvieille

Fontvieille, Bouches-du-Rhône, a commune in the French département of Bouches-du-Rhône

François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers

He took part in the 1795-1796 campaign with the armies of the Sambre and Meuse, fighting on the Rhine and the Lahn and distinguishing himself alongside Kléber near Neuwied and Sulzbach.

Freddie Stowers

He is buried, along with 133 of his comrades, at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial east of the village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon.

French Senate election, 2008

They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

Hamburg Citizen Militia

During the occupation, the Bouches-de-l'Elbe department formed the 127th Infantry Regiment, which was annihilated in the War of the Sixth Coalition (1812–1814).

Heusden

The bridge across the river Meuse makes Heusden, then still occupied by the Germans, a strategic object.

Jesse N. Funk

He earned the medal while serving as a stretcher bearer during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, when he and another soldier, Charles D. Barger, entered no man's land despite heavy fire and rescued two wounded officers.

Karl von Einem

After suffering severe casualties in battle with Gen. John J. Pershing's Allied Expeditionary Force from September 26-November 11 in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, he was forced to retreat northward shortly before the war's end.

L'Étanche Abbey, Lorraine

L'Étanche Abbey, Lorraine, is a former Premonstratensian monastery founded in the 12th century, the ruins of which are near the modern village of Deuxnouds-aux-Bois, in the commune of Lamorville, Meuse, France.

La Lorraine

The La Lorraine was a French automobile manufactured in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse by Charles Schmid from 1899 until 1902.

Matej Kocak

October 4, 1918, found him taking part in the Allied drive against the enemy in the Argonne Forest between the Moselle and Forest of Argonne in the vicinity of Blanchmont in Champagne, France, and in the attack against the enemy in the St. Mihiel sector in the vicinity of Thiaucourt, France.

He was killed in action on October 4, 1918, and is buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France.

Merwin H. Silverthorn

Subsequently participated in the Battle of Château-Thierry, Aisne-Marne Offensive and Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Meuse-Rhenish

They do mostly not think of the Ripuarian speaking area as Low Rhenish, which includes the South Bergish or Upper Bergish area east of the Rhine, south of the Wupper, north of the Sieg.

The combination of Meuse-Rhenish and Ripuarian, including their overlapping transitional zones of Southeast Limburgish and Low Dietsch, will do.

Meuse–Rhine Euroregion

It comprises 11.000 km² and has around 3.9 million inhabitants around the city-corridor of AachenMaastrichtHasseltLiège.

Oscar F. Miller

Miller, aged 35 at his death, was buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery outside of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon in France.

Patrick Devedjian

After the 2007 legislative elections, Télé Lyon Métropole (TLM) filmed a conversation during which a UMP Deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône introduced new MP Michel Havard to Patrick Devedjian, saying that Havard had beaten Democratic Movement candidate Anne-Marie Comparini.

Petitcollin

In the early 1800s, Nicolas Petitcollin, the company's founder, manufactured horn combs in Étain, Meuse, France.

RAF battle honours

For squadrons participating in bombing operations against crossings of the Meuse during the German breakthrough between Sedan and Dinant, 12–14 May 1940.

Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta

At the Waal, for example, the most landward tidal influence can be detected between Brakel and Zaltbommel.

Robert Lee Howze

During World War I he was promoted to Major General and placed in command of the 38th Infantry Division, which fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in October 1918.

Roland Giberti

Roland Giberti, born in Gémenos (Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region)) in 1951, is a French politician belonging to the Nouveau Centre party.

Saint Mihiel Abbey

Saint Mihiel Abbey is an ancient Benedictine abbey situated in the town of Saint-Mihiel, near Verdun in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.

Salonenque

The Salonenque is particularly common in Provence, especially in the Bouches-du-Rhône.

Schnorbach

This noble house appeared with Count Bruno in 1081, then holding a county in what is now the Netherlands on the Meuse’s left bank between Roermond and Venlo.

Sébastien Briat

Sébastien Briat was an anti-nuclear activist from Meuse, France who gained international media attention in 2004 when he was struck and killed by a train carrying nuclear waste near Avricourt, France, after chaining himself to the tracks while participating in a protest against nuclear power.

Tore Supra

Tore Supra is situated at the nuclear research center of Cadarache, Bouches-du-Rhône in Provence, one of the sites of the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique.

Vauvenargues

Vauvenargues, a commune of the Bouches-du-Rhône département in southern France, near Aix-en-Provence


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