X-Nico

unusual facts about Cerisy-la-Forêt


Wallace McIntosh

On 7 June 1944, he joined a raid of 112 Lancaster bombers in support of the D-Day landings the previous day, attacking a concentration of German tanks in woods near Cerisy-la-Forêt, between Bayeux and St Lô in Normandy.


Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy

Alexandre Louis Lefebvre de Cérisy (14 November 1798 Paris - 1867 le Bouchevilliers, near Gisors was a French entomologist

Anna Maria Dengel

After completing her schooling there, she was offered a position to teach German in Lyons, France.

Arboretum de la Pipe Qui Fume

The Arboretum de la Pipe Qui Fume (4 hectares) is an arboretum located in the Forêt Domaniale des Hazelles at Bogny-sur-Meuse, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France.

Barbara Cassin

In September 2012 a Cerisy symposium about her works will take place, with contributions by Xavier North, Étienne Balibar, Fernando Santoro, Michel Deguy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, Alain Badiou.

Boutigny-sur-Essonne

The nearby villages are La Ferté-Alais (aerodrome of Cerny - Jean Baptiste Salis: Annual international meeting) and Milly-la-Forêt (house of Jean Cocteau, historical village).

Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle

The Château de Cerisy-la-Salle, located in the French commune of Cerisy-la-Salle (in the Manche département, region of Basse-Normandie), hosts the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle (CCIC), a prestigious venue for intellectual and scholarly encounters founded in 1952 by Anne Heurgon-Desjardins.

Château de Fresnay

The Château de Fresnay or Frênay is a French castle, 1.2 km to the north of Le Bourgneuf-la-Forêt in Mayenne.

Daregal

In 1887 Amand Darbonne founded the bases for DARÉGAL in Milly-la-Forêt, the birthplace of aromatic and medicinal plants.

Dassault AVE-D Petit Duc

Manufacturing of the first prototype took eight months and was proceeded in Aviation Design's factory at Milly-la-Forêt, France.

Édouard Dujardin

Édouard Émile Louis Dujardin was born in Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt, Loir-et-Cher, and was the only child of Alphonse Dujardin, a sea captain.

Enguerrand de Marigny

He was born at Lyons-la-Forêt in Normandy, of an old Norman family of the smaller baronage called Le Portier, which took the name of Marigny about 1200.

Francis Hallé

In 2010, he and Luc Jacquet have started to collaborate for a Wild-Touch film project, La Forêt des pluies, a documentary about primary forests.

Jacques Nicolas Bellavène

Louis XVIII, now back in Paris, allowed Bellavène to retire to Milly-la-Forêt on 27 September 1815, where Bellavène died in 1826.

Jacques Nicolas Bellavène (Verdun, 20 October 1770 - Milly, 8 February 1826) was a French general.

Jelle Taeke de Boer

“The Bacchanale” from Puvis de Chavannes, “Dans le Foret” from Monticelli, “L’Homme a Table” from Toulouse-Lautrec and finally the top piece, the “Infanta Margarita” from Manet.

La Lucerne Abbey

La Lucerne was the mother-house of four other Premonstratensian monasteries: Ardenne Abbey, Mondaye Abbey and Belle-Étoile Abbey (at Cerisy-Belle-Étoile) in Normandy, and Beauport Abbey in Brittany.

Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal

The Second World War: Dieppe, L'Escaut, Bourgebus Ridge, Saint-André-sur-Orne, Verrières Ridge—Tilly-la-Campagne, Falaise, Falaise Road, The Liaison, Forêt de la Londe, Dunkirk 1944, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, The Scheldt, Woensdrecht, South Beveland, The Rhineland, The Hochwald, Xanten, The Rhine, Groningen, Oldenburg, North-West Europe 1942 '44-45

Madascincus arenicola

Madascincus arenicola is an extant species of skink described in 2011, and indigenous to the Ampombofofo and Forêt d'Orangea regions of Antsiranana Province, in northern Madagascar.

Milly-la-Forêt

The firm of Daregal is a world leader and began in 1887 under the leadership of the Darbonne family who still run the enterprise.

Milly-la-Forêt is twinned with the German town of Morsbach, situated in the valley of the Sieg to the east of Cologne and with Forest Row in East Sussex, England.

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.

Rafael Barrett

He died December 17 of 1910 at the age of 34 in the Regina Forèt Hotel in Arcachon, assisted by his aunt Susana Barret.

Saint Mary, Jersey

In 1042 Duke William gave "Saint Mary of the Burnt Monastery" to the abbey of Cerisy.

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt

American author Edith Wharton lived in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt from 1919 until her death in 1937.

The surrealist Paul Éluard lived in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, and invited several future surrealists to his home including Max Ernst, André Breton and Robert Desnos.

Saint-Leu-la-Forêt

Wanda Landowska her home in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt became a center for the performance and study of old music.

Samantha Davies

Resident in Kerlin (Trégunc), Brittany, France, Davies trains at "Pôle France, Finistère Course au Large" in Port-La-Forêt (La Forêt-Fouesnant).

Sombre forêt

"Sombre forêt" (Dark Forest) is a soprano aria from Act 2 of the opera William Tell by Gioachino Rossini, to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis.

Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle

Whilst on a trip to Cascia, Klein had designed an aeromagnetic sculpture, partially as a response to Jean Cocteau's assertion when visiting his exhibition La forêt d’éponges, June 1959, that it would be even greater if the sponges hovered without supports.


see also