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unusual facts about Bouvron, Loire-Atlantique



1970–71 Ashes series

Farmers donated barley, wheat, oats, timber, sheep and cattle to be sold for the fund, one town built and sold a house and the racehorse La Loire made $18,000 in a raffle.

36th Operations Group

The group earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for operations on 1 September 1944 when, in a series of missions, the group attacked German columns south of the Loire in order to disrupt the enemy's retreat across central France to Dijon.

Albinus of Angers

Later the tradition was reinforced by a miracle recorded in the 10th century, when the walled town of Guérande, near the mouth of the Loire, prayed to St. Albinus for help and found their attackers miraculously defeated.

Antoine Chanzy

The Loire army won the greatest success of the French during the entire war at Coulmiers, and followed this with another victorious action at Patay; in both engagements General Chanzy's corps performed the best.

Arbel Fauvet Rail

The company's history dates to 1856 when Lucien Arbel in association with the Deflaissieux brothers began business in Rive de Gier in the Loire area of France; in 1869 he founded the Forges de Couzon on the river Couzon in Rive de Gier.

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.

Bourras Abbey

It was situated about 26 km to the north-east of La Charité-sur-Loire on a tributary of the River Nièvre.

Chassy, Saône-et-Loire

It is in April, 1164, that Pope Alexandre III, taken refuge in France, gives a bull to the Abbey of Saint-Martin d'Autun, confirming the patronage of the church to the advantage of this abbey:" Ecclesiam de Chariaco ".

Château d'Essalois

The Château d'Essalois is a restored castle in the commune of Chambles in the Loire département of France, overlooking a dammed portion of the Loire River, Lake Grangent.

Château de Candé

The Château de Candé is a castle located in the commune of Monts, Indre-et-Loire, 10 km (6 mi) to the south of Tours on the border of the département of Indre in France.

Château de Clermont

René Chenu, (1599–1672) was a long-time governor of the fortified towns of Oudon and Champtoceaux which dominated the Loire upstream.

Château de Montreuil-Bellay

The Château de Montreuil-Bellay is a historical building in the town of Montreuil-Bellay, département of Maine-et-Loire, France, first built on the site of a Gallo-Roman village high on a hill on the banks of the Thouet River.

Château de Villandry

The Château de Villandry is a castle-palace located in Villandry, in the département of Indre-et-Loire, France.

Claude Évin

Since being replaced as MP for Loire-Atlantique by Marie-Odile Bouillé, he has moved to chairing the French Hospital Federation (FHF).

Clémentine Autain

Her paternal uncle, François Autain, is a French Senator and member of Parti de gauche (Left Party) for Loire-Atlantique, as well as former Deputy Mayor of Bougue and former Secretary of State for Immigration, then for the Ministry of Defense during the presidency of François Mitterrand.

Denée

Denée, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in France

Easter Drama

In giving directions for public services, the Ritual refers to this custom particularly as observed at Fleury-sur-Loire and Ghent.

Fleury Abbey

Fleury Abbey (Floriacum) in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, France, founded about 640, is one of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries of Western Europe, which possesses the relics of St. Benedict of Nursia.

Florine

Sainte-Florine, a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France

Frédéric Demontfaucon

Frédéric Demontfaucon (born 24 December 1973 in Le Creusot, Saône-et-Loire) is a judoka from France.

Gené

Gené, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in France

Gilbert of St Leonard

Gilbert was probably a native of France, deriving his name from the college of St Liphard at Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans.

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-Claude Frécon

Jean-Claude Frécon (born 3 September 1944) is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Loire department, and has served in the Congress of the Council of Europe since 1994, of which he is the current President of Chamber of Local Authorities (elected in 2010)in the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe having served as a Vice-President in Congress since 2002 and as President of the Congress French Delegation since 2004.

Jeanne de Tramcourt

Jeanne Leocadie de Tramcourt (9 December 1875, Tracy-sur-Loire, France – 2 January 1952 in Stjärnhov, Södermanland) was the French long term girlfriend of Prince Wilhelm of Sweden.

Kofi Yamgnane

He became well known in France in 1989 after being elected mayor of a village of Brittany, Saint-Coulitz (less than 400 inhabitants), and at this time, one out of only two black mayors in Metropolitan France (and the only black man in his city), the other was Auguste Senghor, mayor of Le May-sur-Èvre, a town (3,891 inhabitants) in the Maine-et-Loire département, from 1989 to 2008, when he became mayor of another town, Saint-Briac (Ille-et-Vilaine).

La Baule-Escoublac

The nearby region has long been an area of contact and conflict between Breton culture and that of the neighbouring Loire valley, and consequently is rich with historic places, castles (Nantes castle), walled cities (Guerande), not to mention 19th century seaside resorts, such as Quiberon, and many typical Breton fishing villages (Pornichet).

La Vallon Airfield

La Vallon Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in France, which is located approximately 6 km north-northeast of Montbrison (Departement de la Loire,Rhone-Alpes); about 385 km south-southeast of Paria.

La Varenne

La Varenne, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in France

Leipzig–Altenburg Airport

Two aircraft are currently on display there, an ex-Soviet Air Force MiG-21, and an ex-Luftwaffe Breguet 'Atlantique' maritime patrol aircraft.

Lignon

Lignon du Velay, a river in south-central France, right tributary of the Loire

Lourinhã Municipality

The name Lourinhã may be related to the origin of its feudal lord, since Jordan was from the Loire region in France.

Maillé massacre

The principal bibliographic resources are the memoirs of abbot André Payon, published for many years by the Conseil Général of the Indre-et-Loire (Payon, 1945).

The Maillé Massacre refers to the murder on 25 August 1944 of 124 of the 500 residents of the commune of Maillé in the department of the Indre-et-Loire.

Mathuedoï I, Count of Poher

Subsequent to the invasion of the Loire Viking fleet led by Rognvaldr in 919, he exiled himself and his son Alan, to England.

Maurice Fleuret

Born in La Talaudière in the département of Loire, Maurice Fleuret received his secondary education at the École normale d'instituteurs in Montbrison.

Meinerzhagen

On April 12, 1987 the documents were signed for the partnership with the French city Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire.

Meung-sur-Loire

Also in fiction, Meung-sur-Loire is the country home of Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, Georges Simenon's classic crime fiction character.

Mornen noir

In 1902, L. Rougier, an ampelographer writing for Pierre Viala and Victor Vermorel's catalog of grape varieties speculated that Mornen noir was indigenous to the western Rhône-Alpes region in the area between the Rhone and upper Loire rivers.

Pablo de Olavide

In 1791 he moved to a castle in Meung-sur-Loire, but he was arrested in 1794 as a suspicious foreigner and he was imprisoned until the fall of the Jacobins.

Pierre Pinoncelli

Pierre Pinoncelli (born 15 April 1929, Saint-Étienne, Loire, France) is a performance artist most famous for damaging two of the eight copies of Fountain by Marcel Duchamp with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value.

Redones

After the bloody fight on the Sambre (57 BCE) Julius Caesar sent Publius Licinius Crassus with a single legion into the country of the Veneti, Redones, and other Celtic tribes between the Seine River and the Loire, all of whom submitted.

Saint-Valérien

Saint-Valérien, Vendée, a commune in the French region of Pays-de-la-Loire

Sancé

Sancé, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in France

Sermaise

Sermaise, Maine-et-Loire, a commune of the Pays de la Loire region of France

SIVU des Inforoutes de l'Ardèche

The organisation includes almost all of the Ardèche department town councils and some town councils of the adjacent departments of Drôme and Loire, for a total of more than 300 town councils.

Stéphane Sessègnon

Sessègnon began his career with Benin Premier League side Requins de l'Atlantique, which means the Sharks of the Atlantic, in Cotonou, the largest city in Benin.

Taizé Community

He eventually settled in Taizé, which was a small desolate village just north of Cluny, the site of a historically influential Christian monastic foundation.

Torfou

Torfou, Maine-et-Loire, a commune of the Pays de la Loire region of France


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