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3 unusual facts about Boulevard Saint-Germain


Boulevard Saint-Germain

The Boulevard Saint-Germain today is a thriving high-end shopping street with stores from Armani to Rykiel.

This area around the boulevard is also referred to as the Faubourg ("Suburb") Saint-Germain which developed around the abbey.

Fontaine de l'Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés

In the middle of the 19th century, the construction of Boulevard Saint-Germain by Baron Haussmann required the destruction of the site where the fountain was located.


2010 Coupe de la Ligue Final

On 1 March 2010, it was revealed that the French government was considering moving the final to another venue in response to the fan violence that occurred during the annual Le Classique match in which the supporters of both Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille clashed resulting in a supporter being hospitalized, going into a coma, and later dying due to severe head injuries.

Aimoin of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Both of these were first edited in the second volume of Historiae Francorum Scriptores, published at Paris in 1639–49.

Anne d'Arpajon

Her father, Louis de Sévérac, Marquis of Arpajon-sur-Cère (1667–1736), bought the Marquisat of Saint-Germain-lès-Châtres in 1720, and was granted permission by Philippe d'Orléans (régent for Louis XV), to rename it Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon, and its seat Arpajon.

Automobiles Lambert

Lambert was a French automobile manufacturer established by Germain Lambert in 1926 at Mâcon.

Blanche Lazzell

She attended lectures by Florence Heywood and Rossiter Howard, avoided the cafe life, and joined the Students Hostel on Boulevard Saint-Michel.

Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury

In 1694 he again became Secretary of State; but there is some evidence that as early as 1690, when he resigned, he had gone over to the Jacobites and was in correspondence with James at his court in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, though it has been stated on the other hand that these relations were entered upon with William's connivance for reasons of policy.

Chateau-Neuf de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

The French garden, spread out by the Seine on five terraces, was designed by landscape designer Étienne Dupérac and by gardener Claude Mollet.

Châtillon, Hauts-de-Seine

This manor was owned by the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés until 1600, when it was sold to Richard Tardieu.

Childeric II

He was buried in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, near Paris, where the tombs of him, Bilichild, and his infant son Dagobert were discovered in 1645; the contents were pilfered.

Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain

On the death of Frederick in 1766 he returned to France, bought a small estate in Alsace near Lauterbach, and devoted his time to religion and farming.

Clement Wilks

After being engaged for a short time on the Paris to Saint-Germain-en-Laye railway, which opened in 1837, he went to England and was articled to Sir Charles Fox, then of the London works and Resident Engineer of the London and Birmingham Railway.

Codex Corbeiensis I

The St. Germain Library was suffered severely during the French Revolution, and Peter Dubrowsky, Secretary to the Russian Embassy at Paris acquired some of manuscripts stolen from the public libraries.

Count of St. Germain

His name has occasionally caused him to be confused with Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain, a noted French general, and Robert-François Quesnay de Saint Germain, an active occultist.

David Germain

After leaving Shadows Fall in 2001, Germain joined Boston, Massachusetts based punk/ska band Jaya the Cat, who have recorded three studio albums (Basement Style, First Beer of a New Day and the latest, More Late Night Transmissions) as well as performing on the live album Ernesto's Burning.

Germain joined Shadows Fall prior to recording their first album Somber Eyes to the Sky, replacing Adam Dutkiewicz (who was only there to temporarily help start Shadows Fall) and left a year after the tour supporting Shadows Fall's second album Of One Blood.

Edmond Tarbé des Sablons

Tarbé obtained by decree of 13 June 1889 the concession for a tram line between Saint-Germain and Marly-le-Roi, and between Rueil and Courbevoie, where it was connected with the tram from there to the Place de l'Etoile.

Fernand St. Germain

St. Germain was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1989).

Francis V de Beauharnais

François V de Beauharnais (16 January 1714, La Rochelle - 18 June 1800, Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French nobleman, soldier, politician, colonial governor and admiral.

François de Troy

François de Troy (1645 – 21 November 1730) was a French painter and engraver who became principal painter to King James II in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Director of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture.

Gerry St. Germain

After his riding's boundaries were changed to create the new riding of Mission-Coquitlam, St. Germain was defeated in the 1988 general election by Joy Langan.

Information broker

An example of an information broker in contemporary fiction would be DC Comics' superheroine, the Oracle, Edward G. Robinson's character Sol in the film Soylent Green, the Shadow Broker in the video game series Mass Effect, Nicholas Wayne, Rachel, Elean Duga, Gustav St. Germain, Carol, and the President of the Daily Days newspaper company in Baccano!, or Izaya Orihara in the anime Durarara!!.

Jacques Debat-Ponsan

urban planning and reconstruction of Cambrai, with fellow architects Pierre Leprince-Ringuet and Marc Germain Debré (beginning 1919)

Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny

Fialin was born at Saint-Germain-Lespinasse (Loire), the son of a receiver of taxes, and was educated at Limoges.

Jean-François-Théodore Gechter

Battle between Charles Martel and Abd er Rahman, King of the Saracens, 1849 : completed by Nicolas-Germain Charpentier

Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet

Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet (18 November 1777, Béziers - 10 July 1868, Le Val-Saint-Germain) was a French politician, playwright and poet.

Kenza Dali

Kenza Dali (born 31 July 1991 in Sainte-Colombe) is a French football player who currently plays for French club Paris Saint-Germain of the Division 1 Féminine.

Kevin De Bruyne

De Bruyne also played the first half against French Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain at Yankee Stadium, New York.

Léon Germain Pelouse

Léon Germain Pelouse (October 1, 1838 – July 31st,1891) was a French painter born in Pierrelaye (Val-d'oise, France).

Louis de Noailles

Louis de Noailles, 4th Duke of Noailles (21 April 1713, Versailles – 22 August 1793, Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French peer and Marshal of France.

Louis, Count of Clermont

"He was a curious character: prince of the blood, abbé of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, military officer, libertine, man of letters (or at least a member of the Academy), anti-Parlement, religious during his final years, he was one of the most striking examples (and one of the most amusing on certain days) and also one of the most shocking (although not at all odious), of the abuses and disparities pushed to scandal, under the Old Order, of pleasure and privilege." (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve).

Lucien Génin

Lucien Génin (Rouen, 9 November 1894 - Paris, 26 August 1953) was a French painter in the milieu of pre-World War I, and 1920s Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Marie Christine de Pardaillan de Gondrin

When her father found out about the affair between the King and her mother, Montespan decided to take his children away to his country estate before raising a scandal at court, challenging the king one day at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and decorated his carriage with antlers (like horns, these were traditional symbols of the cuckolded husband).

Milton Semer

He was lawyer for Fernand St. Germain, Democratic U.S. Representative from Rhode Island, during an ethics investigation; St. Germain was cleared of all charges in 1987.

Paris Saint-Germain Youth Academy

33 players live at CFA Omnisports and 26 players live in or around Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Primitive Scottish Rite

According to Robert Ambelain, an esotericist who "awakened" it in 1985, it was the rite used by the St. John of Scotland Lodge in Marseille, which was introduced to France in Saint-Germain-en-Laye from 1688; these claims are disputed by historians.

Roquette Freres

Founded and headquartered in Lestrem, France in 1933 by the brothers Dominique and Germain Roquette, Roquette has grow to become the leader in starch production in Europe and the number four ranked producer of starch worldwide.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Egyptian writer Albert Cossery spent the later part of his life living in a hotel in this district.

Many writers have written about this Parisian district in prose such as Boris Vian, Gabriel Matzneff (see La Nation française), Jean-Paul Caracalla or in Japanese poetry in the case of Nicolas Grenier.

Saint-Germain-en-Coglès

In the twelfth century, it belonged to the abbey of Saint-Florent de Saumur before being united to the diocese of Rennes XIV.

Sport in Chad

According to one source, "Nambatingue Tokomon, known as "Toko," played for renowned French soccer clubs, including Paris St. Germain, in the 1970s and 1980s. Abdoulay Karateka also played for Paris St. Germain. Ndoram Japhet played for Nantes and Monaco in the 1990s."

Théâtre de la foire

Théâtre de la foire is the collective name given to the theatre put on at the annual fairs at Saint-Germain and Saint-Laurent (and for a time, at Saint-Ovide) in Paris.

Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1570) - terminated the third phase of the French Wars of Religion

William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis

He remained in Ireland until the king's flight back to France after the Battle of the Boyne, and settled again at the exiled Jacobite Court at St Germain.

Zazou

The two most important meeting places of the Zazous were the terrace of the Pam Pam cafe on the Champs-Élysées and the Boul’Mich (the Boulevard Saint-Michel near the Sorbonne).


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