Alain Marguerettaz (born August 31, 1962 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice) is a French Paralympian who started in alpine skiing.
He was of mixed Burmese, Irish and French ancestry, with his grandparents on his father's side coming from Bourg-Lastic in France,
Septimius Severus, passing through that region, had him put to death; his head was stabbed with a gladius on May 1, 208, at Bergoiata, a Gallic settlement on a rocky peak over the Rhône River which would be later known as Bourg-Saint-Andéol.
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His sarcophagus was rediscovered in 1865 during excavations in the St. Polycarp chapel of the eleventh-century church of in Bourg-Saint-Andéol (Ardèche).
Due to the rapid increase in membership, the mother-house was moved to larger premises in Bourg-Saint-Andéol in 1815.
A monument to Joubert at Bourg-en-Bresse was razed by order of Louis XVIII, but another memorial was afterwards erected at Pont de Vaux.
This church was previously the collegiate church of Notre-Dame-du-Bourg, which in 1992 was raised to the status of co-cathedral of the Diocese of Belley-Ars, as the bishop and diocesan administration of Belley, later Belley-Ars, had been resident in Bourg-en-Bresse since 1978.
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Bourg-en-Bresse Cathedral (Concathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation de Bourg-en-Bresse) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Bourg-en-Bresse, France.
The French ski mountaineer Bertrand Blanc was born in Bourg-Saint-Maurice on October 29, 1973.
One particularly noticed the cabinet in gallery of the appartement du roi (angle du pavillon du midi, à l'étage) and the grand salon, decorated by Louis-Claude Vassé with royal portraits and ducal emblems.
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Mme de Pompadour saw it while living in Étiolles - before being raised by the royal favour, and dreamed of this splendid residence.
The pianist Dinu Lipatti is buried in the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine.
Lipatti is buried at the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine (1915-1982), a noted piano teacher.
Born in Lyon in the center of the silk manufacturing district where his father was an exporter, Edouard studied piano at the lycée of Bourg-en-Bresse, after which he returned to Lyon and turned his attention to organ and harmony.
Motor engineer Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (1856–1901), who, in February 1884, together with Léon Malandin, built and drove a motor car fitted with a 4 stroke internal combustion engine from here to Cailly.
The fossil record shows that it once ranged across Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, and Îles des Saintes, but in most recent times it was restricted to Grand Ilet, just offshore of Petit-Bourg.
He served as subdirector of the institute for the deaf and mute in Bourg from 1875 until 1876 then as Professor of dogmatic theology, Scriptures, and ecclesiastical history at the Seminary of Belley from 1876 until 1889 and was its rector from 1889 to 1891.
They were soon being recommended for children, weak and anaemic adults, as well as people suffering from gastritis.
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The thermal baths were soon famous even beyond Réunion - together with other spas at Cilaos, in the island's south, and Antsirabe at Madagascar, they became a goal of travellers from as far as South Africa, Kenya or Mozambique, as well as a vacation spot for rich vanilla plantation owners from the island's east.
Jacques Prost, born in 1946 in Bourg-en-Bresse, is a French physicist, General director of École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Jacques-Melchior Villefranche (b. at Couzon-sur-Saône, 17 December 1829; d. at Bourg, 10 May 1904) was a French editor, writer, and publicist working for Roman Catholic causes.
He continued composition studies with George Benjamin (King's College London) and organ studies with Louis Robilliard (Conservatoire de Lyon, Prix de Perfectionnement), Odile Bailleux (Conservatoire de Bourg-la-Reine, Prix de Perfectionnement), and Marie-Claire Alain (regional conservatory of Paris).
After capturing the notorious Chemin des Dames, he succeeded, with 10 soldiers, to capture the bridge over the Aisne at Bourg intact.
He was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg-en-Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the rest of his life.
Julien Tiersot (5 July 1857, in Bourg-en-Bresse (Rhône-Alpes) – 10 August 1936, in Paris), was a French musicologist, composer and a pioneer in ethnomusicology.
Part of the A40 autoroute crosses through a spectacular portion of the southern Jura between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, which is known as the "Highway of the Titans."
Luc Jacquet (5 December 1967 in Bourg-en-Bresse) is a French film director from Paris.
She is buried at Bourg-en-Bresse, in the magnificent mausoleum that she ordered for her second husband and herself.
Nicolas Faret (Bourg-en-Bresse, c.1596 – 8 September 1646) was a French statesman, writer, scholar and translator.
Paul Arpin (born February 20, 1960 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice) is a retired long-distance runner from France, who represented his native country in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in seventh place.
The data from those various sensors is sent to the Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory, located in Bourg-Murat, northwest of the volcano.
The Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory is a volcano observatory in the village of Bourg-Murat on the Island of Réunion that monitors the large basaltic Piton de la Fournaise shield volcano.
On that day, during a battle in the city of Noroy-le-Bourg, France, Zussman repeatedly went forward alone to scout enemy positions and exposed himself to enemy fire while directing his tank's action.
Dupre is also in the supermarket business as owner of the independent Bourg Supermarket in Bourg, Louisiana.
Salah Hamouri was born on 25 April 1985 in Jerusalem to a French mother, Denise Hamouri-Guidoux, from Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain), who teaches French in Jerusalem, and from a Palestinian father, Hassan Hamouri, who manages a restaurant in Eastern Jerusalem.
Plans were then drawn up for the reproduction of San Martín's erstwhile home in Le Grand-Bourg, France.
The team produced the film's first four minutes at the Folimage studios in Bourg-lès-Valence.
In 1360, he was fighting in France in the campaign led by Edward III, who also knighted at Bourg-la-Reine.
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Surrounded by the towns of Bourg-du-Bost, Germans, and Petit-Bersac, Comberanche-and-Épeluche is located 37 km northwest of Perigueux.
This vehicle travelled for the first time on the little road from Fontaine-le Bourg to Cailly, Normandy in early February 1884.
In 2008, after his election as senator, he had resigned his post as major of the commune of Bourg-de-Peage, which is the chef-lieu of the canton of the same name, represented by Guillaume in the General Council.
At the close of his university career at Geneva, Louis was in 1816 appointed pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church at Satigny near Geneva, where he formed a close relationship with J. E. Cellrier, who had preceded him in the pastorate, and also with the members of the dissenting congregation at Bourg-de-Four, which, together with the Église du témoignage, had been formed under the influence of the preaching of James and Robert Haldane in 1817.
Grand Bourg, named after the French village of Grand-Bourg, where the leader of the Argentine War of Independence, General José de San Martín, lived in exile - now a neighborhood of Évry.
He filled notebooks with details of his relationships with Francine Camus, René Char, Louis Guilloux, Jean Giorno, André Malraux and Manès Sperber and with the editorial team of the Nouvelle Nouvelle Revue française, as well as his conversations with numerous contemporary artists who visited him at his home in Bourg-la-Reine.
Jean-Bernard Gauthier was born in a family of jurists in Bourg-en-Bresse (now Ain département) of France.
Lebourgneuf got its name as a portmanteau from the last letters of Charlesbourg and the first letters Neufchatel because Charlesbourg-Ouest was located between Charlesbourg and Neufchâtel.
Until 1959 he submitted colourful market scenes, and views of the lively fishing harbours located between Pornichet and Bourg-de-Batz.
Little St Bernard Pass lies between Mont Blanc and the Graian Alps, connecting Bourg St Maurice, France to Courmayeur, Italy
L’US romanaise and péageoise was founded in 1908 as the sport association of two town on both side of the Isère, Romans-sur-Isère and Bourg-of-Péage.