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7 unusual facts about Chelles


Abbevillian

Chellean included artifacts discovered at the town of Chelles, a suburb of Paris.

Chelles

Chelles, Seine-et-Marne in the Seine-et-Marne département, 18 km east of Paris

Chelles Abbey, located in the commune until its destruction in 1796

Chelles, Seine-et-Marne

Paleolithic artefacts were discovered by chance at Chelles by the pioneering nineteenth-century anthropologist Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821–1898); he named the corresponding cultural stage of the Paleolithic after the commune: «Chellean», nowadays known as «Oldowan».

Henri Antoine Jacques

Henri Antoine Jacques (1782 Chelles, Seine-et-Marne – 1866) was a French nurseryman specialising in roses, and noted for having introduced the Bourbon rose from Île Bourbon to France.

Lindau

--is twinned with?--> with the French City of Chelles which was initiated by the returned French soldiers after World War II.

Willi Oueifio

Oueifio learned during 1987 and 1993 at the Ecole Grande Prairie in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne.


Berthild of Chelles

When Saint Bathildis, the wife of Clovis II, founded the abbey of Chelles, which Saint Clotildis had first instituted near the Marne, she asked Saint Thelchildis to set up a new community there with the most experienced and virtuous nuns of Jouarre to direct the novices in the monastic order.

Henri Antoine Jacques

Eventually in 1818 he became head gardener to the Duke of Orleans, later to become King Louis Philippe I, at the Château de Neuilly on the banks of the Seine near Paris, as well as Monceau on the outskirts of Paris, and Le Raincy near Chelles.

Louise Diane d'Orléans

The style of Mademoiselle de Chartres had been used by her older sister, Adélaïde (1698–1743) who, by the time of Louise Diane's birth, was a nun at Chelles.


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