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3 unusual facts about Chêne-Bougeries


Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle

Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle (20 February 1836, Geneva – 3 October 1918, Chêne-Bougeries) was a Swiss botanist, the son of Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle.

Chêne-Bougeries

Alain Delon, the famous French actor has a villa in Chêne-Bourgerie and lives there with his two youngest children Anoushka, and Alain Delon Jr.

Alain Delon, the famous French actor received his Swiss citizenship by naturalisation, in Sept. 1999 after having lived there since 1985.


Barbara of the House of Grebe

Chene Manor, in reality Canford Manor, is a house in Canford Magna.

Chêne chapelle

The Chêne chapelle (lit. "chapel oak") is an oak tree located in Allouville-Bellefosse in Seine-Maritime, France.

Chêne-Bourg

The pianist Dinu Lipatti is buried in the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine.

Dinu Lipatti

Lipatti is buried at the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine (1915-1982), a noted piano teacher.

Eugène Green

Declamation of Jean de La Fontaine, Le chêne et le roseau ; Torquato Tasso, La mort de Clorinda (La Gerusalemme liberata); Théophile de Viau, La Mort de Pyrame ; William Shakespeare, The Death of Kings (Richard II), To be or not to be (Hamlet); Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Qu'est-ce que notre être (excerpt from Sermon sur la mort); Jean Racine, Je ne croiray point?

Maggi Sietsma

Choreographer and solo dancer in the Theatre du Chene Noir (France), Senior Artist in the Avignon Opera Ballet (France), Guest Artist in the Queensland Ballet, Danced in The Australian Ballet, Soloist with the London Festival Ballet (now the English National Ballet),


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