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8 unusual facts about CHAMPS


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20

The grand finale, as the race entered Paris to complete the eight laps of the traditional circuit around the Champs-Élysées.

Champs-Élysées

The Champs-Élysées was originally fields and market gardens, until 1616, when Marie de' Medici decided to extend the axis of the Tuileries Garden with an avenue of trees.

Château de Champs-sur-Marne

The Château de Champs, at Champs-sur-Marne was built in its present form for the treasurer Charles Renouard de la Touane in 1699 by Pierre Bullet, architecte du roi.

Édouard Batiste

In 1842, he became the organist at Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs church in Paris, where he remained for 12 years, before becoming organist at Saint-Eustache Church.

Saint-Nicholas-des-Champs, Paris

The Church of Saint-Nicholas-des-Champs (Église Saint-Nicholas-des-Champs) is a Catholic church in Paris' Third arrondissement.

Say Somethin'

The video resumes with Carey dressed in a long trench-coat, strutting inside Louis Vuitton's flag-ship store on Champs-Élysées.

Other scenes feature Carey trying on several outfits in Louis Vuitton's flag-ship store on Champs-Élysées, as well as close-up shots of Snoop Dogg.

For the video's primary filming locations, Carey had Louis Vuitton's flagship store on Champs-Élysées, one of the most prestigious avenues in Paris, shut down.


2010 Miami Hurricanes football team

Following Miami's loss to Wisconsin in the Champs Sports Bowl, defensive lineman Allen Bailey, wide receiver Leonard Hankerson, and offensive lineman Orlando Franklin announced they would be returning for their senior seasons despite being considered possible candidates to enter the 2010 NFL Draft.

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Her father, the haberdasher Claude-Edme Labille, owned a shop named 'A La Toilette' situated in the Rue neuve des Petits Champs in the parish of Saint-Eustache.

Andrew Mrotek

Mrotek graduated from Milwaukee High School of the Arts in 2001 while drumming for a band called Last Place Champs.

Anichkov Bridge

Guillaume Coustou's baroque marble horse tamers for Marly-le-Roi, the Chevaux de Marly, were resited at the opening to the Champs-Elysées, Paris, at the Revolution.

Bowery Champs

Bowery Champs is an American film starring the East Side Kids.

Douglas Ewart

In 1992 Ewart collaborated with Canadian artist Stan Douglas on the video installation Hors-champs which was featured at documenta 9 in Kassel, Germany.

Eugenia Tadolini

At first she lived in an apartment on the Champs-Élysées, but worried that her money would run out, she later moved to less expensive quarters on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

Evelyn Lambart

She used this technique in seven award-winning films: Fine Feathers (1968), The Hoarder (1969), Paradise Lost (1970), The Story of Christmas (1973), Mr. Frog Went A-Courting (1974), The Lion and the Mouse (1976) and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse/Le Rat de maison et le Rat des champs (1980).

Ewa Malas-Godlewska

Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute production by Bob Wilson, Paris Opera, L'Opera Comique, Le Theatre du Chatelet, Le Theatre des Champs Elysees, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers and Parisian Bastille Opera, the Houston Grand Opera in Texas

François Nau

He attended primary school at Longwy until 1878, then the "petit séminaire" of Notre-Dame des Champs at Paris, then the "Grand Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice" in 1882.

Gershon Legman

In 1953 Legman left his native United States for a farm La Clé des Champs in the village of Valbonne in the South of France, where he was able to pursue his intellectual interests with greater freedom.

Gustave Bouvet

Millerand and other dignitaries were traveling in a procession of three carriages along the Champs-Élysées after returning from a Bastille Day military review.

Hige Danshaku

His official profile states that he was born on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, and attended the Sorbonne.

Hippias Minor

"Alain", Platon, Champs-Flammarion, 2005, ISBN 2-08-080134-1

Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships

Other top performers at Champs who have gone on to excel on the world stage include Michael Frater, Bert Cameron, Melaine Walker, Winthrop Graham, Beverly McDonald, Maurice Wignall, Juliet Cuthbert, Sandie Richards and Raymond Stewart.

Iron Tail

Chief Iron Tail was an international personality and appeared as the lead with Buffalo Bill at the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France and the Colosseum in Rome, Italy.

Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu

The plot revolves around Jackie Chan with his sister Josephine being supreme kung fu champs, guarding the country against evil until the Prince of Sorcerers, a green-skinned villain with magical powers attacks Jackie and kidnaps his sister.

Jacques Ignace Hittorff

Hittorff also designed the Circus of the Empress, the Rotunda of the panoramas, the Gare du Nord (1861–63), many cafés and restaurants on the Champs-Élysées, the facades forming the circle round the Arc de Triomphe in Place de l'Étoile, besides many embellishments in the Bois de Boulogne and other places.

Laurent Marqueste

Among his commissions are a large number of allegorical architectural figural sculptures, historical portraits (Victor Hugo, and Geographie for the Sorbonne, 1901) and others for the monumental Gare d'Orsay (now the Musée d'Orsay), the Collège des Beaux-Arts, the Grand Palais for the 1900 Exposition, and the Hôtel Dufayel, Avenue des Champs-Élysées (1906, demolished).

Le Chat

It was most recently (March–October 2006) at Les Champs Libres in Rennes.

Ledoyen

The Ledoyen is one of the oldest restaurants in Paris, situated in the square gardens in the eastern part of the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement.

Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy

At his brother's death (1658), Louis-Isaac then began with his friends at Port-Royal (including Blaise Pascal, Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, Pierre Nicole, and Pierre Thomas) a revision of his Biblical translation, complete with additional books, Greek texts, and the New Testament.

Ma'anshan

Maanshan has been identified by the Economist Intelligence Unit in the November 2010 Access China White Paper as a member of the CHAMPS (Chongqing, Hefei, Anshan, Ma'anshan, Pingdingshan and Shenyang), an economic profile of the top 20 emerging cities in China.

Maratha Light Infantry

On the occasion of 221st Storming of the Bastille day celebrations, the Maratha Light Infantry lead the parade at the Parisian boulevard of Champs Elysses on 14 July 2009.

Maxime Brunerie

Maxime Brunerie (born 21 May 1977) is a man who attempted to assassinate French President Jacques Chirac on July 14, 2002 in Paris, during the Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Élysées.

Mike Sanford

The next year, the Utes repeated as conference champs and finished the season 12–0, including a win over Pittsburgh in the Fiesta Bowl.

New York Herald Tribune

In Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960), the student and aspiring journalist Patricia (Jean Seberg) sells the New York Herald Tribune along the Champs-Élysées.

Nick Mondo

He fought Justice Pain on June 25, 2000, in a field in the Champs Arena, titled They Said It Couldn't Be Done, A few months later he teamed up with Ric Blade and fought The Backseat Boyz (Trent Acid and Johnny Kashmere), which saw Blade at the end of the match after a Senton bomb off the Champs Arena wall through two stacked tables with Acid on top, and Kashmere under.

Ogden Codman, Jr.

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission later described the facade of number 7 as being "full of gaiety and frivolous vitality" and further, "on approaching the house, Paris and the Champs-Élysées immediately come to mind."

Oswego Speedway

Oswego Speedway Supermodified class track champions have included multi-time champs Nolan Swift (eight times, 1953–71), Bentley Warren (seven times, 1983–93), Jim Shampine (seven times, 1967–79), Greg Furlong (four times, 2000–07), Eddie Bellinger, Sr. (three times, 1957–60), and Doug Didero (three times, 1994–96).

Saint-Avertin Sports

They are based in the town of Saint-Avertin and their home stadium is the Stade des Grands Champs.

Springfield Giants

The Springfield Giants won three consecutive championships in 1959, 1960 (co-champs) and 1961 under manager Andy Gilbert, all leading the way to San Francisco's National League pennant in 1962.

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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