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13 unusual facts about Choisy


Argyreia

Moorcroftia Choisy, Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 6: 431.

Bertrada of Laon

Bertrada of Laon, also called Bertha Broadfoot (cf. Latin: Regina pede aucae i.e. the queen with the goose-foot), (between 710 and 727 – July 12, 783, Choisy) was a Frankish queen.

Choisy Cathedral

Choisy Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Louis-et-Saint-Nicolas de Choisy), otherwise known as the Church of St. Louis and St. Nicholas (Église Saint-Louis Saint-Nicolas), located at Choisy-le-Roi, was the first cathedral of the diocese of Créteil, from 1966, when the diocese was created, to 1987, when the present Créteil Cathedral was inaugurated.

Choisy, Haute-Savoie

It lies between "les petites Usses" brook on the west side at an altitude of 390 m, and the Mandallaz mountain on the east side.

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, sometimes spelled de l'Isle, (10 May 1760, Lons-le-Saunier – 26 June 1836, Choisy-le-Roi), was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars.

Créteil Cathedral

Before the consecration of the present building, the cathedral of the diocese was the church of Saint Louis and Saint Nicholas at Choisy-le-Roi.

Davy Dona

Davy Dona (born October 13, 1981 in Choisy-le-Roi, France) is a French karateka who won a gold medal in the men's kumite -60 kg weight class at the 2003 European Karate Championships.

Demon One

Hakim Sid was born Choisy-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne of an Algerian father and a French mother started rapping at a very young age.

Georges Bontemps

Georges Bontemps was a director of a French glass manufacturer based at Choisy-le-Roi until 1848.

Imprimerie nationale

2005 : the state resold the sites at Bondoufle and Schiltigheim, closed the Paris site and installed the printing on paper works at Choisy-le-Roi.

Les Boréades

The work was in rehearsal in 1763 at the Paris Opéra, probably for a private performance at the court at Choisy.

Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse

He designed the patterns of the Faïencerie (earthenware factory) from Choisy-le-Roi, where he was artistic director.

UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole

Alfortville plays its home matches at the Parc Départemental des Sports in the nearby commune of Choisy-le-Roi.


Jacques Caffieri

A large proportion of his brilliant achievement as a designer and chaser in bronze and other metals was executed for the crown at Versailles, Fontainebleau, Marly, Compiègne, Choisy and the Château de La Muette, and the crown, ever in his debt, still owed him money at his death.