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unusual facts about Choisy, Haute-Savoie



Adeline André

After her graduation in 1970 she entered the House of Christian Dior as an assistant for Haute Couture collections, working next Marc Bohan.

Alfred Vaucher

Vaucher also taught at Saleve Adventist University, Collonges-sous-Salève, Haute-Savoie, a French biblical college, from 1921-1941 and 1945-1983.

Battle of Méribel

The Battle of Méribel took place at Méribel, above Sallanches, Haute-Savoie, France, on 13 September 1793, when the forces of the Duchy of Savoy were defeated by the French Army.

Bernard Bosquier

Bernard Bosquier (born 19 June 1942 in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie) is a former French international footballer who played as a defender.

Borvo

Many of the sites where offerings to Borvo have been found are in Gaul: inscriptions to him have been found in Drôme at Aix-en-Diois, Bouches-du-Rhône at Aix-en-Provence, Gers at Auch, Allier at Bourbon-l'Archambault, Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Saône-et-Loire at Bourbon-Lancy, in Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Haute-Marne at Bourbonne-les-Bains and in Nièvre at Entrains-sur-Nohain.

Buffet Crampon

In 2008 Buffet Crampon continues to pursue its strategy by the acquisition of the Leblanc clarinet factory in La Couture-Boussey, Département of Eure, Haute-Normandie in France.

Cal Crum

In 1916, Crum again played for two teams: the Terre Haute Highlanders of Terre Haute, Indiana, and the Muskegon Reds of Muskegon, Michigan.

CAMIVA

CAMIVA, an initialism for Constructeurs Associés de Matériels d'Incendie, Voirie et Aviation, (English for Associated Constructors of Fire Equipment, Roads and Aviation) is a French company which specializes in equipment for fire and rescue founded in 1970, near Chambéry, in Saint-Alban-Leysse in the department of Savoie, France.

Château d'Étobon

The Château d'Étobon is a ruined castle in the commune of Étobon in the Haute-Saône département of France, 6 km from the town of Héricourt.

Château de Rochechouart

Château de Rochechouart is a thirteenth-century French castle, located at the top of the confluence of the Grêne and Vayres rivers in the commune of Rochechouart within the département of Haute-Vienne.

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.

Col du Corbier

Col du Corbier is a French Alpine pass located in Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France between the towns of Le Biot and Bonnevaux (Haute-Savoie).

Daniel Vaudd

A chance encounter at the Knightsbridge Haute Parfumerie of the world’s sole ‘ Professeur de parfum’, Roja Dove, led Dove to ask Daniel to be his personal researcher on the project ‘Essence of Perfume’ by Roja Dove.

Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis

The Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis is a rock formation in Pontis, near Embrun in the French Alps, located on the edge of the Lac de Serre-Ponçon.

Édouard-Jean Empain

The rendezvous set by the kidnappers was to take place two days later at Megève, a winter resort in Haute-Savoie.

Entremont

Entremont, Haute-Savoie, a municipality of the Haute-Savoie département in France

Ernest Failloubaz

With this aircraft Failloubaz participated at the flight meeting in Viry, Haute-Savoie, in August 1910 and dared what no one else had ever attempted before: Stopping the engine in flight, gliding and restarting his engine.

Florine

Sainte-Florine, a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France

French Senate election, 2008

They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

Gustave Dutailly

During the same year, he became a deputy (political title) of the arrondissement of Chaumont, and in 1885 was named deputy of the department of Haute-Marne.

Horse training

20th century text by the former director of the Spanish Riding School covering the training of horses from basic dressage through the haute ecole or "high school" movements.

Install Party des Savoie

During a day, people from Pays de Savoie, which is both Savoie and Haute-Savoie departements, is welcomed to get familiar with a new desktop environment, GNU/Linux, renowned for its ability to be reliable and virus-free.

Joseph François Michaud

He was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg-en-Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the rest of his life.

Les Boréades

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

Les Deux Amants

The mountain mentioned in the poem actually exists, near the commune of Pîtres in the Haute-Normandie region of France.

Lorette, Manitoba

The church is surmounted by three bells, which were poured in Haute-Savoie, France.

Marcel Thil

Born in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne in the Champagne-Ardenne Region of France, Thil started boxing at a very young age and turned professional at the age of 16.

Masque d’Or

Established in 1982, the Masque d’Or – Grand Prix (Grand Prize) is jointly organized by the FNCTA and the Charles Dullin Association in Savoie, France.

Moita

Moïta, a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Musée Georges-Garret

Musée Georges-Garret is a muséum located in the city of Vesoul, in the Haute-Saône departement of eastern France.

Nicky Savoie

Nicky John Savoie (born on September 21, 1973 in Cut Off, Louisiana) is a former American football tight end who has a one year career in the National Football League.

Nicolas Felizola

Felizola debuted his spring/summer 2008 collection during Haute Lunch, a charity luncheon benefiting the AROD Family Foundation, hosted by "It" baseball player of the year, Alex Rodriguez and his wife, Cynthia.

Orbigny

Orbigny-au-Mont, a commune in the Haute-Marne department in France

Pierrecourt

Pierrecourt, Seine-Maritime, a commune in the French region of Haute-Normandie

Potentilla delphinensis

It is endemic to France, where it is limited to the southern French Alps (Savoie et Dauphiné: Bauges; Isère; Hautes-Alpes, Col du Lautaret).

Prince Maurice of Savoy

On 4 June 1627 he became the abbot of the monastery at Abondance and in 1637, on the death of his elder brother Victor Amadeus I, he and his brother Thomas claimed the regency of the duchy against Victor Amadeus's widow Christine Marie of France, but the king supported Christine and confirmed her as regent.

René Grandjean

Immediately repaired, his aircraft was in August 1919 damaged again by Georges Cailler during a flight meeting in Viry, Haute-Savoie.

Rich Dickerson

Dickerson worked with Starkey and Evans to provide advance promotion for a KISS concert at the new Hulman Civic-University Center in Terre Haute.

Roc d'Enfer

The Roc d'Enfer (2,244 m) is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, located west of Morzine in the French department of Haute-Savoie.

Rocher Rond

Rocher Rond lies in the foothills of the Alps, straddling the communes of Lus-la-Croix-Haute (in the department of Drôme) and Agnières-en-Dévoluy (in the department of Hautes-Alpes).

Sainte Marie Coal Mine

The Sainte Marie Coal Mine is one of the major Ronchamp coal mines, located in Ronchamp, Haute-Saône, in eastern France.

Seelenluft

"Comme Dans Un Rêve" from the album was featured in the Fall/Winter 2008/9 Haute Couture Fashion Show for Chanel.

Sisteron Cathedral

Sisteron Cathedral, now the Church of Notre-Dame-des Pommiers (Cathédrale or Concathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Thyrse de Sisteron; Église Notre-Dame des Pommiers, or "Our Lady of the Appletrees") is a Roman Catholic church, formerly a cathedral, and national monument of France, in Sisteron, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

Tête de l'Estrop

Administratively the mountain is divided between the French communes of Prads-Haute-Bléone (southern slopes) and Méolans-Revel (vallon du Laverq, northern slopes).

Theophanis Lamboukas

Sarapo died at the side of the road in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, following an automobile accident on 28 August 1970.

Vaudey

Villers-Vaudey, commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Franche-Comté in eastern France

Verziau of Gargantua

The verziau of Gargantua (or vierzeux of Gargantua), also known under the name of Haute-Borne is a menhir at Bois-lès-Pargny in France.

Virginie Guyot

She was assigned to the Mirage F1-CR in the Escadron de reconnaissance 2/33 Savoie.


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