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unusual facts about Château d'Ancy-le-Franc


French Renaissance architecture

Another castle built by Serlio is the Château d'Ancy-le-Franc in Burgundy who was also lavishly decorated by the Flemish and Italian artists from Fontainebleau.


Alva Belmont

She also purchased the 15th-century Château d'Augerville in Augerville-la-Rivière, Loiret, in the summer of 1926 and restored it as her primary residence.

AM-Franc

With the swift take-over of sovereignty by General Charles de Gaulle, who considered the US occupation franc as “counterfeit money”, the currency rapidly faded out of use in favour of the pre-war French franc.

Bois-Franc, Quebec

Industrial Park "Réjean Lafrenière" is home to the oriented strand board factory Louisiana-Pacific Canada ltd.

Burnin' Sky

Burnin' Sky was recorded in France at Château d'Hérouville in July and August 1976 with future Rolling Stones engineer Chris Kimsey but its release was delayed until March 1977 as to not compete with the band's then-current album Run with the Pack.

Camembert Electrique

The album was recorded at Château d'Hérouville near Paris, France, produced by Pierre Lattès and engineered by Gilles Salle.

Carménère

DNA testing confirmed in 2006 that plantings of Cabernet Franc in the Matakana region were in fact Carménère.

CFP franc

In 1969, the New Hebrides franc was separated from the CFP franc and was replaced by the Vanuatu vatu in 1982.

Château Cheval Blanc

The château remained in the family until 1998, when it was sold to Bernard Arnault, chairman of luxury goods group LVMH, and Belgian businessman Albert Frère, with Pierre Lurton installed as estate manager, a constellation similar to that of the group's other chief property Château d'Yquem.

Château d'Acquigny

The two rivers were dammed and redirected during the twelfth century by the monks of Conches-en-Ouche to power mills in the region.

Château d'Apremont

The Château d'Apremont is a ruined 16th century château in the commune of Apremont in the Vendée département of France.

Château d'Arc-en-Barrois

The Arc-en-Barrois area belonged in 1622 to Nicolas de L'Hospital, Duke of Vitry; it was bought in 1679 from his son by Count Morstein who ceded it in 1693 to Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, whose son Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, inherited the estate.

During World War I the château became the Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, an emergency evacuation hospital for injured soldiers from the French 3rd Army Corps.

Château d'Armailhac

Purchased by Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1934, the estate is currently owned by the Mouton branch of the Rothschild family.

Château d'Artigny

It was also possible to see the actresses Marie Marquet, Edwige Feuillère and Cécile Sorel, the ballet masters Serge Lifar an Serge Diaghilev, the painter Foujita, and the Maharaja of Khapurtala, the Aga Khan.

Château d'Assier

The external and interior decoration is typical of the French Renaissance style, with Classical orders (ionic, doric, Corinthian), scenes from the legend of Hercules, such as the Lernaean Hydra and the Nemean lion, as well as more personal motifs, such as the cannons, swords, the collar of the Order of Saint Michael.

Château d'Autet

Château d'Autet is a château located in the Luberon hills of the commune of Viens in the Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Château d'Azay-le-Ferron

The first château was constructed by Prégent Frotier in the late 15th century, on land which had belonged to Nicolas Turpin de Crissé in the 13th century, then became part of the barronie of Preuilly in 1412.

Château d'Essalois

The Château d'Essalois is a restored castle in the commune of Chambles in the Loire département of France, overlooking a dammed portion of the Loire River, Lake Grangent.

Château d'Étobon

The Château d'Étobon is a ruined castle in the commune of Étobon in the Haute-Saône département of France, 6 km from the town of Héricourt.

Château d'Issy

The sculptor Auguste Rodin repurchased the pediment of the garden façade, as well as the avant-corps columns; he set up these pieces at his property of Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine).

Château d'Ochsenstein

The castle overlooks an old strategic passageway, which rises from the Alsace plain and Reinhardsmunster through the Mosselthal vallley, to reach the Baerenbach valley, the Stambach,Annex and, which finally reaches Lutzelbourg, and Phalsbourg in Lorraine.

Château d'Oiron

After Pascal died, Charlotte Gouffier married Francois d'Aubusson, the duc de La Feuillade, who enhanced the castle with his wealth and connections to Louis XIV.

Château d'Opme

The Château d'Opme (pronounced 'ome') is an 11th-century castle, later converted to an elegant château, located in the commune of Romagnat, in the département of Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France, nine kilometers south of Clermont-Ferrand.

Château d'Orion

Week of reflection with Julian Nida-Rümelin: Nachdenken über Rationalität, Freiheit und Verantwortung (Moderation: Ulrike Schneiberg) (2005)

Château d'Ussé

In 1802 Ussé was purchased by the duc de Duras; as early as March 1813, low-key meetings were held at Ussé among a group of Bourbon loyalists, who met to sound out the possibilities of a Bourbon Restoration: such men as Trémouille, duc de Fitzjames, the prince de Polignac, Ferrand, Montmorency and the duc de Rochefoucault attended.

Civil list of the July Monarchy

This law decreed that its amount be 12 million francs annually, along with 1 million annually for the King's eldest son, Prince Ferdinand Philippe, who was The Prince Royal and Duc d'Orléans.

Elzéard Auguste Cousin de Dommartin

Elzéard Auguste Cousin de Dommartin (26 May 1768, Dommartin-le-Franc – 9 August 1799, Rosetta) became a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars, fought in Italy under Napoleon Bonaparte, and commanded the artillery division of the Armée d'Orient during the French invasion of Egypt in 1798.

Fouchy

The southern part of the village rests on the dividing ridge between the valleys of the Giessen and of the River Liepvrette: this ridge rises from 690 meters in the east to 830 meters at the Schnarupt peak, dominating the hamlet of Hingie in the adjacent commune of Rombach-le-Franc.

French post offices in Egypt

The first issue appeared in 1899; it consisted of the post office name (as described above) overprinted on the current "Type Sage" stamps, a total of 15 values ranging from one centime to five francs.

Honky Cat

The album title "Honky Chateau" is a reference to where it was recorded, the Château d'Hérouville, about 30 miles outside of Paris.

Honky Château

It was titled after the 18th century French chateau where it was recorded, Château d'Hérouville.

Jakopin

Primož Jakopin (born 1949), Slovene computer scientist and linguist, son of Franc and Gitica

Jean Goujon

In 1544-1547 he was occupied with considerable works at the Château d’Ecouen for the connétable de Montmorency.

Joan I, Countess of Auvergne

Joan I of Auvergne (8 May 1326 – 29 September 1360, Chateau d'Argilly) was the daughter of William XII, Count of Auvergne and Boulogne, by his wife Marguerite d'Évreux (the sister of Philip III of Navarre).

Kari Innerå

In the morning of May 2, 2011 thieves broke into Cru vine & kjøkken and stole 100 bottles of expensive wine and champagne worth 40.000-50.000 USD, including a Romanée-Conti, La Tâche Grand Cru 1972 and top wines from Château d'Yquem, Liger-Belair, Jacques Selosse and Dom Pérignon.

Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge

Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge (c. 1612, Ancy-le-Franc – May 31, 1660, Montreal) was the French governor of New France from 1648 to 1651 and acting governor from 1657 to 1658.

He was born at Ancy-le-Franc into a noble family, the son of Antoine d'Ailleboust and Suzanne Hotman.

Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet

His home was the family seat, the Château d'Anet, which stood in a royal hunting preserve in the valley of the Eure.

Louis Sauer

Bois-Franc, a new 8000-dwelling community on 202 hectares in the Saint-Laurent Borough of Montreal.

Marble House

There she divided her time between a Paris townhouse, a villa on the Riviera, and the Château d'Augerville, which she restored.

Martin le Franc

Martin le Franc is famous in music history for penning the phrase "la contenance angloise", the English countenance, a much-debated phrase referring to a characteristically English sound found in the music of composers such as John Dunstaple.

Million Franc Race

The Million Franc Race, or ‘Prix du Million’, was an effort in 1937 by the French Popular Front to induce French automobile manufacturers to develop race cars capable of competing with the incredibly advanced German Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union racers of the time, which were backed by the Nazi government in a (largely successful) attempt to dominate the sport, in order to 'prove the superiority of the Aryan race'.

Oliver Belmont

His mausoleum, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, is an exact replica of the Chapel of St. Hubert at Château d'Amboise in France.

Pays de France

Successive Dukes constructed numerous castles and forts, for example the Château d'Écouen, which dates to the sixteenth century.

The Château d'Écouen, built for Anne de Montmorency, became the National Museum of the Renaissance in 1977.

The Slider

On the recommendation of Elton John, The Slider was recorded outside of Paris at Château d'Hérouville to avoid British taxing laws.

Yugoslavia at the 1968 Winter Olympics


Forwards: Franc Smolej, Bogomir Jan, Boris Renaud, Albin Felc, Viktor Tišler, Rudi Hiti, Slavko Beravs, Miroslav Gojanovič, Roman Smolej, Janez Mlakar, Ciril Klinar.


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