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7 unusual facts about Côte-d'Or


ASC Saint Apollinaire-Talant RC

ASC Saint Apollinaire-Talant RC is a French amateur rugby union club based in Saint-Apollinaire, Côte-d'Or on the outskirts of Dijon in Burgundy, in eastern central France.

Eduard von Fransecky

Under Manteuffel's command Fransecky took part in the operations in the Côte-d'Or and Jura against Bourbaki's Armée de l'Est.

Flacey

Flacey, Côte-d'Or, a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France

Gaston Chevrolet

Born near Beaune, in the Côte-d'Or department of France where his Swiss parents had emigrated to a few years earlier, he was the younger brother of Louis (1878–1941, founder of the Chevrolet car company) and Arthur Chevrolet (1884–1946).

Louis, Duke of Joyeuse

Mentally unstable (imbécile), she was confined to the abbey of Essey only a few years after their marriage.

Theobald of Provins

His relics were translated to the abbey at Sens, and then to Auxerre, at the chapel of Saint-Thibault-en-Auxois (Côte d'Or).

Vix Grave

The area around the village of Vix in northern Burgundy, France is the site of an important prehistoric complex from the Celtic Late Hallstatt and Early La Tène periods, comprising an important fortified settlement and several burial mounds.


Bakayoko

Youssouf Bakayoko (born 1943), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Côte d'Ivoire

Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage

Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage is a 1989 British television comedy drama (transmitted on BBC1), written by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies and directed by Jack Gold, set in France on Brittany's Côte Sauvage.

Bani River

The Bani River has three main tributaries: the Baoulé that rises near Odienné in Côte d'Ivoire and passes just south of Bougouni, the Bagoé River that rises near Boundiali in Côte d'Ivoire and the Banifing-Lotio that drains the region around Sikasso.

Bernard Binlin Dadié

Dadié was born in Assinie, Côte d'Ivoire, and attended the local Catholic school in Grand Bassam and then the Ecole William Ponty.

Bouaké Airport

On June 29, 2007, Guillaume Soro, the prime minister of Côte d'Ivoire, was targeted by rocket and Kalashnikov fire upon his landing at the Bouaké Airport.

Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway

The Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway is twinned with the Chemin de Fer de La Valée de l'Ouche (CFVO), Bligny-sur-Ouche, Côte-d'Or, France.

Brigitte Borghese

During the seventies she had roles in several films, her first being, a part in the adult feature Je prends la chose... du bon côté!, La bonzesse, Tout le monde il en a deux, her first time working with French director Jean Rollin, the fantasy horror Tendre Dracula, with Peter Cushing and Alida Valli, ...et mourir de désir, Les petites saintes y touchent, Les bijoux de famille, Le commando des chauds lapins, and L'hippopotamours.

Château de Châteauneuf

The Château de Châteauneuf, also known as the Château de Châteauneuf-en-Auxois, is a 15th-century fortress in the commune of Châteauneuf, 43 km from Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or département of France.

Château de Commarin

The Château de Commarin in the commune of Commarin in the Côte-d'Or département, Burgundy, France, has passed through 26 generations in the same family; never sold, though it has often passed through heiresses, Commarin today is a seat of the comte de Vogüé.

Christian Lattier

19 pieces of Lattier's sculptures are currently in the collection of "Musée National de Côte d'Ivoire" in Abidjan.

Comblanchien

The Jurassic limestone of the Côte includes a pink-veined marble called Pierre de Comblanchien which was laid down in the Bathonian epoch.

Coté First Nation

The Cote First Nation is a Saulteaux (Ojibwe) First Nation located in southeastern Saskatchewan.

Côte-Rôtie AOC

Around the same time, the British also discovered the wines with the purchase logs of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol providing one of the earliest English records of "Côte-Rôty" (sic) wine.

Crow v Wood

Mrs Edna Crow, Stone House Farm of North Riding, sued Mr Robin Wood, or Wether Cote Farm, Hawnby, for his sheep straying into her land, alleging cattle trespass.

Émile Bouchard

During the Quebec provincial election Independent candidate Kevin Côté made one of his platforms to force Canadiens into retiring the number.

Fly-in

Switzerland's fly-ins include the one from La Côte, near Prangins, which was held each every 2 years since 2007, organized by the local air-club "Club Aéronautique Swissair Genève" (CASG).

Gio people

One notable warrior chief was Grougbay Zobaneeay, who fought and pushed the tribes that once live in the present day Nimba County to as far as Loguatuo in Côte d'Ivoire.

Hovenden Walker

By that time the whole fleet was heading for the “North Shore,” or more accurately, the coast to the westward; ships in the van were already plunging on the edge of the breakers.

Ilija Lončarević

However, after Libya lost to Egypt and Côte d'Ivoire in their first two group matches at the tournament, chairman of the Libyan Football Federation, Gamal Al Gaafari, announced that the coach will be relieved of his duties after the last group match against Morocco, which ended in a goalless draw.

Indian Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire

The Indian Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire is in charge of the Republic of India's diplomatic mission to Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.

Isaac Mendez

On December 11, 2007, the New York Law Journal reported on Mallery v. NBC Universal, quoting from Southern District Judge Denise Cote's opinion that "the line between mere 'ideas' and protected 'expression' is 'famously difficult to fix precisely'", and stating that Heroes was not close to infringing.

L'Abidjanaise

Adopted in 1960 at the country's independence, the song of Abidjan remains the national anthem of Côte d'Ivoire, even though the capital city is now Yamoussoukro.

Laurent Chambertin

Laurent Chambertin (born September 29, 1966 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or) is a retired volleyball player from France, who earned a total number of 336 caps for the Men's National Team.

Litavis

Her name is found in inscriptions found at Aignay-le-Duc and Mâlain of the Côte-d'Or, France, where she is invoked along with the Gallo-Roman god Mars Cicolluis in a context which suggests that she might have been his consort.

Losna

Losne, a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France

Louis Marie Florent du Châtelet

Louis Marie Florent de Lomont d'Haraucourt, duke of Châtelet (20 November 1727, Semur-en-Auxois, Côte-d'Or - 13 December 1793, Paris), was a French army officer, nobleman and diplomat.

Lucybell

Francisco Gonzalez then left in 2005, leading to the immediate arrival of Cote Foncea (drums), of the now defunct Chilean rock band Dracma.

Marcus Tulio Tanaka

Three minutes later, he injured Côte d'Ivoire attacker Didier Drogba's elbow which was fractured by high challenge from Tulio.

McCord Museum

The documents come from families (the Dessaulles, McCord, Armstrong-Deligny-Philips and Bacon families); from well-known individuals (Sir George-Étienne Cartier, Maurice-Régis Blondeau, Hélène Baillargeon Côté); from companies and associations (Women's Art Society of Montreal, Victoria Rifles of Canada, Gibb & Co.); and from collections (New France, British Empire, Concert and Theatre Programs, Valentines).

McGill Executive Institute

Recent guest speakers of note have included business leaders Daniel Lamarre, Larry Smith, Jim Cherry, Alan Allnutt, Paul Côté and Pierre Boivin.

Meite

Ibrahim Meité (born 1976), Côte d'Ivoire sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres

Minganie Regional County Municipality

Minganie and the neighbouring Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality are grouped into the single census division of Minganie—Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent (known as Minganie–Basse-Côte-Nord before 2010).

Musée du Pays Châtillonnais

The Musée du Pays Châtillonnais, or Trésor de Vix, formerly called the musée archéologique de Châtillon-sur-Seine (Côte-d'Or), was created in the late nineteenth century and is managed by the community of communes of the Pays Châtillonnais.

N'Guessan

Pascal Affi N'Guessan (born 1953), former Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire

Quebec Route 385

The highway runs from the junction of Route 138 in Forestville and ends over 80 kilometers further north into large wooded areas which the main purpose of the road is for the wood industry in the Côte-Nord region.

Renaud-Bray

The chain was founded in 1965 by Pierre Renaud and Edmond Bray, with the opening of its first store on Côte-des-Neiges Road in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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.

Rover Light Six

The act to promote the new Rover Light Six in a headline-grabbing campaign was the brainchild of former motorcycle tester and pioneer publicist Dudley Noble, in which a Light Six was to race the Blue Train across France from Calais to St Raphael on the Côte d'Azur.

S. A. Agulhas

Included in the itinerary were visits to Tema and Abidjan to take on additional cadets from Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, while en route to London, UK.

Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality

Sept-Rivières (French for "Seven-Rivers") is a regional county municipality of Quebec, Canada, in the Côte-Nord region.

SNCF Class Z 23500

They are mainly used on stopping services around the French Riviera (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), Lille (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) and Lyon (Rhône-Alpes).

Tanya Donelly

Included on the tour were husband Fisher on bass, keyboardist Lisa Mednick (formerly of Juliana Hatfield's group), drummer Stacy Jones (formerly of Letters to Cleo and Veruca Salt), and Madder Rose guitarists Mary Lorson and Billy Coté.

Théophile Alajouanine

The Laboratoire Théophile-Alajouanine, Centre hospitalier Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal is named after him.

Young Patriots

Congrès Panafricain des Jeunes et des Patriotes, a pro-government youth movement in Côte d'Ivoire


see also

Belan

Belan-sur-Ource, a commune in the Côte-d'Or department of eastern France

Caroline Aigle

She was assigned to the Mirage 2000-5 in the escadron 2/2 "Côte-d'Or" in 2000, and promoted to the rank of Commandant (roughly equivalent to Major) in 2005.

Château de Bussy-Rabutin

The Château de Bussy-Rabutin, also known as Château de Bussy-le-Grand, is a château which developed from a 12th-century castle, located in the commune of Bussy-le-Grand, in the Côte-d'Or department, Bourgogne, eastern France.

Château de la Rochepot

The Château de la Rochepot is a 13th-century castle, later converted into a château, in the commune of La Rochepot in the Côte d'Or département in Burgundy, France.

Chorey-les-Beaune

The soils are composed mostly of quaternary detrital and alluvial fills, and the wines tend to be thinner and less complex than those grown on the Jurassic limestone, gravels, and marls of the slopes from which the better quality wines of the Côte d'Or come.

Harper University Hospital

It remained at Le Havre until July 28, when it proceeded by rail to its final destination, Dijon, Department Cote D'or, in the advance section, arriving there July 29, 1917.

Stade Dijonnais Côte D'Or

The Stade dijonnais Côte D'Or, commonly know also as "Dijion" is a French rugby union based a Longvic, a suburb od Dijon and is participating at the championship "Fédérale 1" (the third level of French rugby union system)

Vertillum

Vertillum is a Gallo-Roman site in the modern commune of Vertault in the Côte-d'Or department of eastern France.