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10 unusual facts about Charenton


Amyraldism

The national Synods at Alençon, 1637; at Charenton, 1645; and at Loudun, 1659 (the last synod permitted by the French government), decided against the excommunication of Amyraut but delimited his views in order to avoid further variance with historic Reformed orthodoxy.

Charenton

Charenton-le-Pont, in the Val-de-Marne département, a commune which has a common border with Paris

Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, a neighboring commune that was called Charenton-Saint-Maurice until 1842

Charenton-le-Pont

In 1929, the commune of Charenton-le-Pont lost about a third of its territory when the city of Paris annexed the Bois de Vincennes, a small part of which belonged to Charenton-le-Pont.

On that occasion, half of the commune of Bercy was annexed to the city of the Paris, and the remaining half was annexed to Charenton-le-Pont.

Charenton, Louisiana

Frere, a native of Paris, reportedly exclaimed on his deathbed that "anyone choosing to move to that part of Louisiana belonged in Charenton!" Charenton was the name of a notorious insane asylum outside of Paris.

Eddy Ferhi

Eddy Ferhi (born 26 November 1979 in Charenton-le-Pont) is a professional French ice hockey goaltender who participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the France National men's ice hockey team.

Jean-Joseph Mouret

Jean-Joseph Mouret (April 11, 1682, Avignon - December 22, 1738, Charenton-le-Pont) was a French composer whose dramatic works made him one of the leading exponents of Baroque music in his country.

Jean-Pierre Jarier

He was born at Charenton-le-Pont, near Paris, and is regarded as one of the finest drivers never to win a Grand Prix.

Louise Geneviève de La Hye

She was born in Charenton, France, daughter of Charles-Louis Rousseau and grand niece of philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.


Charles Bertheau

He was admitted to the ministry at the synod held at Vigan in 1681, and shortly afterwards became one of the pastors of the then important church of Charenton, Paris.

Fort de Charenton

The is located at a strategic point that was contested in 1814, where forces under Frederick of Württemberg attacked the bridges of Charenton, defended by veterinary students and some regular troops, and the bridges of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, obligatory passages on the Marne.

François Devienne

Devienne died in Charenton-Saint-Maurice near Paris on September 5, 1803.

French Cathedral, Berlin

The French Church was modelled after the destroyed Huguenot temple in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France.

Gendarmenmarkt

The cathedral was modelled after the destroyed Huguenot church in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France.

Jules Baillarger

He studied medicine at the University of Paris under Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772–1840), and while a student worked as an intern at the Charenton mental institution.

The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse

The chorus of "We Are Normal" features the lyric "We are normal and we want our freedom", a reference to a line from the 1963 play "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade," or "Marat/Sade" a line also quoted in "The Red Telephone", a song by American band, Love, on their 1967 album "Forever Changes".

The Skull

In real life the Marquis de Sade's body was exhumed from its grave in the grounds of the lunatic asylum at Charenton, where he died in 1814, and his skull was removed for phrenological analysis.

Voguéo

After 15 minutes of travel from its base, it reached the second stop at the twin Nelson Mandela Bridges which connect the communes of Ivry-sur-Seine and Charenton-le-Pont via the D154 autoroute.

The fleet of four catamarans had their operational and maintenance base at Charenton-le-Pont, between the two Nelson Mandela Bridges.