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30 unusual facts about Chantilly, Oise


Albert Vanhoye

After a stint at the French Jesuit study house of Chantilly, he was called to Rome in 1963 to be Professor of Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, serving as its Rector for 6 years (1984–1990).

Almutawakel

Prior to winning the Dubai World Cup, Almutawakel won the 1998 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly.

Cash Asmussen

While based at Chantilly Racecourse in Chantilly, France, Asmussen also scored victories in a number of important stakes races in England including the 1988 July Cup, 1989 Coronation Stakes, 1990 Coronation Cup, and the 1993 St. James's Palace Stakes.

Chantilly porcelain

Chantilly porcelain is French soft-paste porcelain produced between 1730 and 1800 by the manufactory of Chantilly in Oise, France.

Daniel Dumonstier

An exhibition of all the 30 works by him held at Chantilly and important pieces from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Louvre was organised at musée Condé at Chantilly from 15 March 2006 to 15 June 2006 when Editions Arthéna published a thesis by Daniel Lecoeur on him.

Émilien Amaury

Amaury died after falling from his horse in the forest near Chantilly, Oise.

Fiesole Altarpiece

The side pillars were decorated by ten small panels with saints and blessed, four of which are known today: two are at the Musée Condé of Chantilly and two in private collections.

Haras du Quesnay

In 1958 the farm was acquired by prominent French horseman Alec Head, a descendant of the trainers who founded the English Racing Colony in Chantilly, Oise.

Hatoof

Hatoof (born January 26, 1989 in Versailles, Kentucky) is a Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who competed internationally out of a base in Chantilly, France under trainer Criquette Head for owner Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale

By his will of the June 3, 1884, however, he had bequeathed to the Institute of France his Chantilly estate, including the Château de Chantilly, with all the art-collection he had collected there, to become a museum.

Horse musical

In the following years, Dieter Stéphane Speidel has created and produced other horse musicals, such as Le Prince, a play that tells the story of the legend of Louis Henri de Bourbon, the 7th Prince de Condé (Chantilly 1692 - 1740) who believed he would be reincarnated as a horse.

Ingeborg Psalter

The Ingeborg Psalter is a late 12th century illuminated Psalter now housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly, France.

Jade Kindar-Martin

In the summer of 2004, Jade married fellow Cirque du Soleil performer and stunt woman Karine Mauffrey, high up in the air on a wire stretched over the grounds of the Château de Chantilly in Chantilly, France.

Jean Malouel

A later version in the Musée Condé in Chantilly has been suggested as a copy of the Malouel image type of John.

Jean Neuberth

Jean Neuberth (born November 1915 in Paris, died March 16, 1996 in Chantilly) was a French abstract painter.

Lady Diana Cooper

Following Duff Cooper's retirement in 1947, they continued to live in France at Chantilly, until his death in 1954.

Le concert champêtre

Le Concert Champêtre ("Woodland Music-makers") is a 1857 painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, currently housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly, France.

Le Pacha

Raced by Philippe Gund, Le Pacha was trained by John Cunnington whose family founded the English Racing Colony in Chantilly, Oise.

Musée Condé

The Musée Condé – in English, the Condé Museum – is a museum located inside the château de Chantilly in Chantilly, Oise, 40 km north of Paris.

Oronthée

Oronthée (or Orontée) is a French-language opera by the composer Paolo Lorenzani, first performed by the singers and musicians of the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) at Chantilly on 23 August 1688 as part of the celebrations the Prince of Condé gave for the Dauphin.

Ouï FM

Ouï FM can be heard mainly in the North of France, on 102.3 FM in Paris, 102.1 FM in Melun and 90.7 FM in Chantilly, as well as via the Astra 1H satellite.

Paolo Lorenzani

In 1688, his opera Oronthée, composed in the French style, premiered at the Académie royale in Chantilly.

Pearl Cap

She was trained by Frank Carter, a member of the prominent racing family that began in France with Thomas Carter (1805-1879), who immigrated from Peckleton, Leicestershire in England in 1831 and founded the English Racing Colony in Chantilly, Oise.

Pearl Diver

As a two-year-old, Pearl Diver was sent into training at the Chantilly stable of Percy Carter, an Englishman who had been based in France for many years.

Pierre-Joseph Candeille

He worked at the Opéra as choirmaster from 1800 to 1802 and again from 1804 to 1805, before retiring to live in Chantilly.

Princess Marguerite Adélaïde of Orléans

Marguerite married Prince Władysław Czartoryski, second child of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski and his wife Princess Anna Zofia Sapieha, on 15 January 1872 in Chantilly.

Rayon d'Or

Rayon d'Or was conditioned for racing by Tom Jennings, Sr., a member of the pioneering English Racing Colony at Chantilly, Oise.

Séraphine Louis

They only reestablished contact in 1927 when Uhde – back in France and living in Chantilly – visited an exhibition of local artists in Senlis and, seeing Louis's work, realized that she had survived and her art had flourished.

Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton

Simon was the third son of Laudri de Senlis, sire of Chantilly and Ermenonville (in Picardy), and his spouse, Ermengarde.

World Polo Championship

In 2004, the Sixth World Championship was held in Chantilly, France.


Arise the Republic

The party also claims 3 general councillors, and Mayors in four communes: Yerres, Cambrai, Saint-Prix and Ancinnes.

Arnold Horace Santo Waters

On 4 November 1918 near Ors, France, Major Waters, with his Field Company, was bridging the Oise-Sambre Canal under artillery and machine-gun fire at close range, the bridge being damaged and the building party suffering severe casualties.

Auvers-sur-Oise

During the 19th century, a number of painters lived and worked in Auvers-sur-Oise, including Paul Cézanne, Charles-François Daubigny, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and, of course, Vincent van Gogh.

Blossoming Chestnut Branches

Blossoming Chestnut Branches was painted by Vincent van Gogh during the artist's Auvers-sur-Oise period in May 1890, the final year of his life.

Claude Gewerc

In March 1998, he was elected to the Picardie Regional Council to represent the Oise, and was President of the Socialist group in the regional council from 1998 to 2004, at which date he defeated the incumbent UDF administration to become Regional president.

Costas Evangelatos

He has presented sections of his works in solo exhibitions in Athens, Rochester, New York, Thessaloniki, Arezzo, Avignon, Chantilly, Paris, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Nicosia.

Emilio Boggio

He returned to France in 1920 and soon thereafter died on 6 July 1920 at Auvers-sur-Oise in France.

Épône

Hérault de Séchelles (1759–1794), former lord of Épône, representative of Seine-et-Oise in the National Convention, beheaded in 1794, and author of Théorie de l'ambition, codicille politique pratique d’un jeune habitant d’Épône

François Louis, Prince of Conti

He was buried alongside his mother at his property in L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, near Paris.

Gare de Balagny-Saint-Épin

The Gare de Balagny-Saint-Épin (Balagny-Saint-Épin station) is a railway station located in the commune of Balagny-sur-Thérain in the Oise department, France, it is also located near the settlement of Saint-Épin in the commune of Bury.

Gare de Cramoisy

The Gare de Cramoisy (Cramoisy station) is a railway station located in the commune of Cramoisy in the Oise department, France.

Gare de Franconville – Le Plessis-Bouchard

Franconville - Le Plessis-Bouchard is a station in Franconville, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.

Gilles de Roye

He was afterwards professor of theology in Paris and abbot of the monastery of Royaumont at Asnières-sur-Oise, retiring about 1458 to the convent of Notre Dame des Dunes (Ten Duinen) at Koksijde, near Veurne, and devoting his time to study.

Girl in White

Girl in White (also known as Young Girl Standing Against a Background of Wheat and Woman in a Cornfield) was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, during the last months of his life.

Goussainville, Val-d'Oise

Goussainville was the site of the crash of the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 during the 1973 Paris Air Show which led to the deaths of all six people on board and eight more on the ground and is less than 6km from Gonesse, the site of the crash of the supersonic Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000.

Head in Flames

Van Gogh finds himself standing in a field in Auvers-sur-Oise in July 1890, debating whether or not to commit suicide.

Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale

Elected deputy for the Oise département, he returned to France, and succeeded to the fauteuil of the comte Montalembert in the Académie française.

Hugues Portelli

Portelli is also the mayor of Ermont, a city located in the North of Paris (Val d'Oise department) as well as a Professor of Political science and Constitutional Law at the prestigious Panthéon-Assas University.

Jacques Vallée

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.

Joan II of Navarre

Later on she exchanged Angoulême for three estates in Vexin:- Pontoise, Beaumont-sur-Oise, and Asnière-sur-Oise.

Le Grand Blond avec un show sournois

Le Grand Blond avec un show sournois (the title a pastiche of the title of the film Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire) was a Québecoise late night comedy television show presented by Marc Labrèche, shown from 2001 to 2003 (2 seasons of 114 episodes) on TVA.

Léon Germain Pelouse

Léon Germain Pelouse (October 1, 1838 – July 31st,1891) was a French painter born in Pierrelaye (Val-d'oise, France).

Louis Till

Till was buried in Grave 73, Row 7 of Plot E in Oise-Aisne American Cemetery.

Maxime Dethomas

Born in Garges-lès-Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, Maxime Dethomas came from a long line of painter-printers on one side of his family and of lawyers on the other.

Montmorency, Victoria

Montmorency was named after a local farm, Montmorency Estate, which in turn was named for the town of Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, where the French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived briefly.

Nakajima J1N

Today, Gekko 7334 is fully restored and on display in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia the sole remaining example of Japan's innovative line of night-fighting Gekkos.

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

In order to have an operation done and also to settle his inheritance, in 1715 the travelled to Paris, where he stayed with his friend, the patron and collector Pierre Crozat, whose cabinet in his Parisian house and chapel in his country retreat at Montmorency Le Gros decorated (both destroyed).

Pittsworth, Queensland

Items include a chantilly lace wrap which once belonged to Florence Nightingale, a love letter written by Governor Bligh's mother, an outdoor display of carts and farm equipment and memorabilia connected with Arthur Postle who, in 1906, was proclaimed 'the fastest man in the world' when he won the 220 yards World Championship Cup.

Portraits by Vincent van Gogh

The twelve-year-old Adeline Ravoux was the daughter of Arthur-Gustave Ravoux, whose inn is where Van Gogh lodged in Auvers-sur-Oise.

Sainte-Geneviève, Quebec

At the heart of the conflict that led to the separation of Sainte-Geneviève was the famous lawyer Joseph-Adolphe Chauret, who in 1902 built a stately home reminiscent of homes in Pierrefonds, France, in the Department of Oise.

Société de Transport Interurbains du Val d'Oise

The company was created in 1974 by Cars Giraux and Cars Lacroix with the task of transporting the increasing population of the new town of Cergy-Pontoise.

The Town Hall at Auvers

Along with other canvases from his short period in Auvers-sur-Oise, such as The Church at Auvers and paintings of houses with thatched roofs, this painting seems reminiscent of scenes from the northern landscapes of Van Gogh's childhood and youth.

Trophée des Grimpeurs

The Trophée des Grimpeurs, called Polymultipliée until 1970, is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in the region of Val-d'Oise, France, between Argenteuil and Sannois.

View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Rémy

The painting was originally thought to be a view of the church at Labbeville, near Auvers, where he moved following his stay at the asylum, but it is now accepted to be a view of the asylum and church at Saint-Rémy.

Villarceau

Domaine of Villarceaux, a château, water garden, and park in the commune of Chaussy in the Val d'Oise Department of France

Viromandui

However historical records of their military movements and military strength suggests that they were a much larger tribe than could be supported in this area and it is predicted by some scholars that, “…Although their lands included at least the diocese of Noyon, they almost certainly extended into Laon and parts of northern Oise”.