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13 unusual facts about Christophe


1710 in art

October 11Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, French sculptor in the neoclassical style (died 1795)

1795 in art

Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, French sculptor in the neoclassical style (born 1710)

Air Vallée

The airline previously had its head office on the propertty of Aosta Airport in Saint-Christophe.

Christophe

Christophe (Georges Colomb (1856–1945), French comic strip artist and botanist

Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique

In 1635, France's Cardinal Richelieu charged François Fouquet, the head of a small group of his councilors, with revitalizing the less than dynamic Compagnie de Saint-Christophe in which the Cardinal was a shareholder.

The Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique, French for Company of the American Islands, was a French chartered company that in 1635 took over the administration of the French portion Saint-Christophe island from Compagnie de Saint-Christophe which was the only French settlement in the Caribbean at that time, and was mandated to actively colonise other islands.

Gare de Cergy – Saint-Christophe

Buildings have soon followed the station and the area is now Cergy's second shopping centre.

Guiers

Saint-Christophe-sur-Guiers, a commune in the Isère department in south-eastern France

Henry II of Rodez

Beatrix, lady of Scorailles and Saint-Christophe, married (1295) Bernard III (died 1325), lord of La Tour

Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon

He is the son of Prince Charles Napoléon and his first wife Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, daughter of the late Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon, Duke of Castro, a claimant to Headship of the former Royal House of the Two Sicilies.

Count Andrzej Przemysław Zamoyski

S.C. Vallée d'Aoste

Saint-Christophe Vallée d’Aoste (usually referred to as Vallée d'Aoste) is an Italian association football club, based in Saint-Christophe, Aosta Valley, but playing in Aosta.

Saint-Christophe, Aosta Valley

Air Vallée had its head office on the grounds of Aosta Airport.


178008 Picard

The asteroid (178008) Picard was discovered by Bernard Christophe in Saint-Sulpice on 30 August 2006.

Broken Dimanche Press

You Are Here, Ann Cotten / Anna Bro / Agnieszka Drotkiewicz / Martin John Callanan / Volha Martynenka / Francesca Musiani / Christophe Van Gerrewey /Urszula Wozniak, 2009

Christophe Bassons

It's true that he refused to 'load the cannon' (the pretty expression used by those who take EPO) these past years, it's true that Christophe Bassons doesn't belong to the family of cheats and the corrupted.

Christophe Bigot

Christophe Bigot (born December 23, 1965) in Neuilly-sur-Seine France, is the current French ambassador to Israel.

Christophe Clement

Christophe Clement initially acquired his training skills from father Miguel, a leading trainer in France, Christophe later worked for the prominent French racing family of trainer Alec Head.

In the US, Christophe studied under Hall Of Fame conditioner Shug McGaughey before returning to Europe to work as assistant to trainer Luca Cumani in Newmarket, England.

Christophe Cuvillier

Christophe Cuvillier (born December 5, 1962 in Etterbeek) is a French businessman and current chief executive officer of the European real-estate group Unibail-Rodamco.

Christophe Hurni

Christophe Hurni (born 1 December 1962, Switzerland) is a Swiss racing driver.

Christophe Laudamiel

Christophe Laudamiel (born 1969, Clermont-Ferrand, France) is a contemporary French perfumer, osmocurator, writer and lecturer with a Master's Degree in Chemistry, Valedictorian.

Christophe Le Menu de Saint-Philbert

Christophe Le Menu de Saint-Philbert (c.1720- Paris 1774) was a French music publisher who also composed some short cantatas in the rococo style known as cantatilles.

Christophe Luquet

Christophe Luquet is a French slalom canoer who competed in the 1990s and 2000s together with his brother Pierre.

Christophe Pognon

Christophe Pognon (born 11 October 1977 in Cotonou) is a former tennis player from Benin.

Christophe Rousset

Christophe Rousset also has a career as guest conductor (Liceu Barcelona, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera of Wallonia, Orquesta Nacional de España, among other orchestras) as well as the active pursuit of musical research, producing critical editions and the publication by Actes Sud of a study on Rameau in 2007.

Cockos

Christophe Thibault, who joined Cockos in 2005, is a French programmer and was the founder of the Kaillera and K-Meleon projects.

Company of the Blessed Sacrament

Finally, it was instrumental in bringing about the ordinance establishing the General Hospital of Paris where Christophe du Plessis, the magistrate, and St. Vincent de Paul organized medical care for the indigent.

Eifert

Johann Christophe Eifert, a free Jäger working for the famous German theologian Herr Carl Melchoir von Böse, introduced his son Karl Traugott Eifert into the clergy when he married Margarethe Eliz.

Eugène Christophe

Christophe rode for Peugeot and his team attacked from the start to demoralise the rival Alcyon riders and, in particular, Defraye.

Garifuna people

Cardinal Richelieu of France gave the island to the Saint Christophe Company, in which he was a shareholder.

Georges Colomb

Under the pseudonym Christophe (playing on "Christophe Colomb", the French name for Columbus), Colomb created comics that were popular among the French intelligentsia, yet were published in Le Petit Français illustré, a children's paper.

Isigny-sur-Mer

The earliest known ancestor of Walt Disney, with a similar name, was Jean-Christophe d'Isigny ("of Isigny").

Ivor Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne

He has also worked on tracks with French artists such as Jaques Higelin, M, Christophe, Bertrand Cantat, Arno, Alain Souchon, Philippe Katerine, and Emanuelle Seigner with Brigitte Fontaine.

Jean-Christophe Cambadélis

Jean-Christophe Cambadélis (born August 14, 1951) is a member of the National Assembly of France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Karel de Nerée tot Babberich

Christophe Karel Henri (Karel) de Nerée tot Babberich (March 18, 1880 – October 19, 1909) was a Dutch symbolist artist who worked in the decadent and symbolist style of Aubrey Beardsley.

La fille de Monaco

Audrey Varella (Louise Bourgoin), a beautiful local TV weather girl, who is highly promiscuous, and whose previous lovers include Christophe, enamors Beauvois, hoping to make a better life with him.

Les Poppys

The small singers of Asnières, as they were, consisted of the first generation of Poppys: Bruno Polius, Harry Trowbridge, Philippe and Gabriel Képéklian, Thierry and Philippe Sellier, Philippe and Jean-Pierre Herman, Philippe Magnan, Jean-Jacques Gallard, Pascal Buffenoir, Pierre Puyhardy, Olivier Dubrez, Benoit Cabane, Christophe Normand, Bernard Carayon, Olivier Antignac.

Noritoshi Hirakawa

Noritoshi Hirakawa has exhibited his work in a variety of galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, the Pompidou Centre, Paris, MoMA PS1 in New York City, multiple galleries in New York, Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, the Art & Public Contemporary Art Gallery, Geneva, the Gallerie Ferdinand van Dieten in Amsterdam, the Christophe Guye Galerie in Zurich, and in Köln.

Orchestre des Pays de Savoie

Guest conductors include Reinhard Goebel, Christophe Coin, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Ton Koopman, Arnold Oestman, Pascal Rophé, Pascal Verrot, Christopher Warren-Green, François-Xavier Roth, Jean Deroyer, Kenneth Weiss, Henning Kraggerud, Christoph Poppen or Sigiswald Kuijken.

Paul Noël Lasseran

These include Chapelle des Carmélites, Lectoure (1889), Église paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Goutz (1901–1903), Église Sainte-Blandine, Castet-Arrouy (1901) and Église Saint-Christophe, Masseube (Gers) 1932-1933.

Pierre Luquet

Pierre Luquet is a French slalom canoer who competed in the 1990s and 2000s together with his brother Christophe.

Princess Henriette of Belgium

Prince Charles Philippe Emmanuel Ferdinand Louis Gérard Joseph Marie Ghislain Baudoin Christophe Raphaél Antoine Expédit Henri d'Orléans (4 April 1905 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France – 10 March 1970 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France), Duc de Nemours, de Vendôme et d'Alençon, married Marguerite Watson (12 Feb 1899 Richmond, Virginia - 27 Dec 1993) on September 24, 1928, in Paris, without issue.

Rally for Congolese Democracy

Sporadic fighting reported between Mai Mai elements led by commander Christophe of the 8th Military Region's 4th Brigade and ex-Armee Nationale Congolaise (former armed wing of the RCD-G) soldiers from the 8th Military Region's 11th Brigade headed by Colonel Bonne-Annee in the North Kivu localities of Bwerema, Bishange, and Bitonga (Masisi territory) beginning the week of October 24th and continuing periodically until November 5th.

Sahpresa

Christophe-Patrice Lemaire took the ride when Sahpresa attempted to win her third Sun Chariot Stakes on 24 September.

The Toyes

Mawg (Jean-Christophe Kay) and his brother Sky (Michael Kay) were living together in Waikiki.

Titof

Titof (short for Christophe), born on October 5, 1973 in Lunéville, is the pseudonym of a French pornographic film actor who began performing in 1999.

Une petite française

The song was composed by Olivier Toussaint and Paul de Senneville, a very successful team whose compositions were recorded by major French singers such as Michel Polnareff, Christophe, Dalida, Petula Clark, Claude François and Mireille Mathieu all through the 60s and 70s.