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9 unusual facts about Carignan


Acadia River

The course of the river flows through seven municipalities (or cities): Hemmingford, Saint-Patrice-de-Sherrington (where it flows eastward) Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, Napierville, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Saint-Luc and Acadia sector), Carignan and Chambly.

Carignan-Salières Regiment

After requiring that the Company of One Hundred Associates (Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France) relinquish its monopoly on trade in 1663, Louis XIV and his minister finally had the control they needed to develop the colony's economic potential.

Carignan, Ardennes

It changed hands between the Habsburg Netherlands and France several times, until it was assigned to France by the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees.

Gaugericus

He was born to Roman parents, Gaudentius and Austadiola, at Eposium (present Carignan).

Les vins skalli

In the 1920s, Robert-Elie Skalli starts working in wine-making and chooses land in the Oran, Mascara and Aïn Témouchent regions of Algeria to plant Southern French variety vines such as Carignan, Cinsault, Grenache, Alicante, and so on.

Matilda of Frisia

Their marriage was arranged by Conrad during a meeting in Yvois.

Mékinac Lake

Mekinac lake covers 23 km² in the townships of Carignan, Hackett and Mekinac.

Michel Blavet

In 1726 he joined the Duke of Carignan and took part in the newly formed Concert Spirituel for the first time.

Samsó

Carignan, which is known as both Samsó and Samso in north-east Spain


Claude Carignan

Senator Carignan was created Government Leader in the Senate on 30 August 2013 by virtue of his caucus leadership, upon the resignation of his predecessor as Leader, Senator Marjory LeBreton.

Jean-Baptiste van Loo

He was patronized by the prince of Carignan, who sent him to Rome, where he studied under Benedetto Luti.

Jean-Guy Carignan

With the Quebec East riding boundaries redistributed in 2003, Carignan contested the Louis-Saint-Laurent electoral district in the 2004 federal election as an independent candidate but finished in sixth place while Bernard Cleary of the Bloc Québécois won the riding.

Further controversy ensued following a mailing of 2000 Christmas cards featuring a picture of Carignan with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Linda Lapointe

She campaigned on behalf of local Conservative candidate Claude Carignan during the federal election of 2008.

Moroccan wine

The traditional red grapes planted in Morocco are Carignan (which once dominated), Cinsaut (almost 40 per cent in 2005), Alicante, and Grenache.

Pierre Gingras

He campaigned on behalf of local Conservative candidate Claude Carignan during the federal election of 2008.

Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein

In Vienna on 24 October 1713 Maria Theresia married Thomas Emmanuel, Count of Soissons and Governor of Antwerp (born on 8 December 1687), second son of Louis Thomas of Savoy-Carignano and his wife Uranie de La Cropte de Beauvais.

Saint-Claud

The commune is partly the ancestral home of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911 (Laurier's ancestor was François Cottineau, who left his home named Champlaurier, located between the villages of Saint-Claud and Nieuil, for New France in 1677 as the member of the Régiment de Carignan-Salières).


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