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5 unusual facts about Buc, Yvelines


1915 in aviation

June 17 – Shortly after a ceremony in Paris in which he receives the French Légion d'honneur for shooting down the Zeppelin LZ 37 on June 7, Royal Naval Air Service Flight Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Warneford dies along with American journalist Henry Beach Newman in the crash of a new Farman biplane during takeoff from Buc, France.

Farman Moustique

In 1923 three powered Aviettes were entered for the competition at Buc, Yvelines.

In July 1923, three powered Aviettes competed at Buc, Yvelines for the Grand Prix de Motoaviette against eighteen other entrants.

Three months before the Lympne Trials several Aviettes competed in an equivalent French meeting for moto-aviettes at Buc.

Reginald Warneford

Following a celebratory lunch, Warneford travelled to the aerodrome at Buc in order to ferry an aircraft for delivery to the RNAS at Veurne.


A12 autoroute

This project, started back up in 2004 by the Transport Minister Gilles de Robien, caused significant concern among locals, such as the inhabitants of South of Yvelines.

Adventures in Paradise

"Adventures in Paradise", song by Robie Porter, credited as "Rob E. G.", on B-side of "Tim-buc-too"

Albert Bartholomé

Paul-Albert Bartholomé (1848 in Thiverval-Grignon, Yvelines, France – 1928 in Paris), was a French painter and sculptor and is inhumed in the 4th division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Amaury

Montfort-l'Amaury, a French commune in the Yvelines département in the southwestern suburbs of Paris

Anne de Gaulle

In October 1945, Yvonne de Gaulle bought the Château de Vert-Cœur at Milon-la-Chapelle (Yvelines), where they installed a private hospital for handicapped young girls: the Fondation Anne de Gaulle.

Aubert Aviation

In 1938, it flew a light monoplane, the Cigale, and continued to develop this design after World War II at Buc, building some 30 production examples before ceasing operations in 1959.

Aubette de Meulan

Aubette de Meulan is a French river that begins at Avernes in Val-d'Oise, flows through Vigny, and empties into the Seine in Meulan-en-Yvelines.

Bouygues

The American architect Kevin Roche worked on this building, as well as the previous head office location, the Challenger complex in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

Buc Wheats cereal

There have been reports stating that the cereal may have been originally produced but the Ralston Purina Company and when General Mills purchased Ralton's cereal line in 1994 Buc Wheats had disappeared from the grocery stores.

Buc-ee's

Buc-ee's travel centers are large stores that typically cover over 60,000 of square footage with large restrooms that contain over 40 urinals and toilets, fueling areas that range from 32-64 pumps, and a full-service deli that features a wide selection of beef jerky, pastries, prepared sandwiches, tacos, Dippin' Dots and homemade fudge.

Château de Groussay

The Château de Groussay is located in the town of Montfort-l'Amaury, in the Department of Yvelines, in France.

Château de la Celle

The château de La Celle, also named château de La Celle Saint-Cloud or the petit château, is located in the commune of La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in the French département of Yvelines (France), south-west suburbs of Paris, six kilometers north of Versailles.

Château de Pontchartrain

The Château de Pontchartrain is located in the municipality of Jouars-Pontchartrain in the department of Yvelines in France .

Colette Deréal

Colette Deréal (born Colette Denise de Glarélial, 22 September 1927 in Saint-Cyr-l'École, Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines), France and died 12 April 1988 in Monaco) was a French actress and singer.

Émile Lambinet

A student of Horace Vernet then Corot, he spent most of his life in Yvelines, at first in his birthplace of Versailles, then at Bougival from 1860.

Georges Guibourg

Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.

Goupy No.2

The Goupy No.2 was an experimental aircraft designed by Ambroise Goupy and Mario Calderara and built in France in 1909 at the Blériot factory at Buc.

Guy Lacour

He became a professor at the Ecole Nationale de Musique Edgar Varèse in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, France and in the same year was named Director of the Conservatoire Municipal de Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, France.

Ile de France International Piano Competition

The Society Opus Yvelines organizes annually this contest with the support of the city of Maisons-Laffitte and the General Council of the Yvelines.

Lebanese American University

In 1987, based on the amended charter, BUC opened its northern branch on a hill above the historical port-city of Byblos and in rented buildings in Amsheet.

Léon Krier

As projects get bigger, he goes on to argue, the buildings should not get bigger, but divide up; thus, for instance, in his unrealised scheme for a school in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (1978), France, the school became a “city in miniature”.

Louis-Martin Berthault

Château de Jouy-en-Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, Yvelines: Reconstruction of the château for the chemist and ammunition manufacturer Armand Seguin, who bought the estate in 1801

Marcel Marc Dhôme

On 16 November, he reported to the aviation school at Buc.

Miesque

The annual Prix Miesque at the Hippodrome in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines and the Miesque Stakes at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California are held in her honor.

Nicolas Bay

He was one of the two MNR municipal councillors elected in Sartrouville (Yvelines) in the French municipal elections, 2001 when his list won 11.3% of the votes.

Olof Aschberg

At the end of the 1920s Aschberg moved to France, where he bought Château du Bois du Rocher at Jouy-en-Josas, in 1950 offered to the Unesco and subsequently sold to the Yvelines department.

Pavillon du Butard

The Pavilion du Butard is a hunting lodge in the Forêt de Fausses-Reposes in the territory of La Celle-Saint-Cloud in Yvelines, France.

Pecq

Le Pecq, Yvelines is a commune in the Yvelines département of the Île-de-France region of France

Pierre Fichet

His funeral was held on January 13, 2007 at Saint-Léonard's church in Croissy-sur-Seine (Yvelines, France).

Rosny

Rosny-sur-Seine commune in the Yvelines département in France

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Every four years, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines serves as the start and finish point of the famous Paris–Brest–Paris bicycling endurance event.

Voisins-le-Bretonneux

The closest station to Voisins-le-Bretonneux is Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines station on Paris RER line C, on the Transilien La Défense suburban rail line, and on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail line.

Yvelines

Since then the château has continued to welcome the parlement when called upon to sit in a congressional sitting, jointly with the upper house in order to enact constitutional changes or, as happened most recently in June 2009, to listen to a formal declaration by the president.


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