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3 unusual facts about Cantal


Close encounter of Cussac

On the morning of August 29, 1967, at 8:00 AM, François (13 years old), his sister Anne-Marie (9), and their dog Médor left the French commune of Cussac, Cantal, to lead ten cows approximately 800 m to the west of the village.

The Close encounter of Cussac is the name given to an event which happened to a young brother and sister in Cussac, Cantal, France in August 1967.

Saint-Constant

Saint-Constant, Cantal, a commune in the Cantal département, in France


Alain Marleix

Alain Marleix began his political career as a vice-representative for Georges Pompidou in the Assembléee Nationale, who was then representative for Saint-Flour in the Cantal.

Amandin

Saint-Amandin, a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France

Bernard Brunhes

In 1905, he found that rocks in an ancient lava flow at Pontfarin in the commune of Cézens (part of the Cantal département) were magnetised in a direction almost opposite to that of the present-day magnetic field.

Château de Carbonat

Castle of Carbonat is a French castle located in Arpajon-sur-Cère, in Cantal (Auvergne).

Château de Conros

The Château de Conros is a medieval castle, later heavily modified, situated in Arpajon-sur-Cère in the Cantal département of France.

Château de Vixouze

The Château de Vixouges (or Château de Vixouze) is a medieval castle in the commune Polminhac in the Cantal département of the Auvergne, in France.

Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste

L'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste is a church in Virargues in the Cantal département in the Auvergne Region.

Garabit viaduct

The Garabit Viaduct (Viaduc de Garabit in French) is a railway arch bridge spanning the River Truyère near Ruynes-en-Margeride (Fr), Cantal, France, in the mountainous Massif Central region.

John Hind Farmer

From 15 May 1944 Farmer was responsible for parachuting weapons to the Maquis in their Redoubt of La Truyère (Cantal).

Le Lioran

This prompted a major contributor to the development of the resort with the construction of the Téléphérique du Plomb du Cantal, an eighty place cable car, completed in 1967 with the aid of, and inaugurated by, locally born Georges Pompidou who would shortly succeed Charles de Gaulle as President of France.

Léopold Morice

In 1910 and 1911 he produced two monuments in memory of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, one at Montcalm's birthplace of Vestric-et-Candiac (Cantal) and the other in Québec, where Montcalm died.

Pradier

Pradiers, commune in the Cantal department in south-central France

Villa Marguerite

The Villa Marguerite or Château Marguerite is a mansion in Neussargues-Moissac in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region of France.


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