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unusual facts about Clermont-en-Auvergne



Adrienne de La Fayette

In 1807, during a trip to the Auvergne region, Adrienne became ill; she became delirious but recovered enough on Christmas Eve to gather the family around her bed; her last words to Lafayette were: "Je suis toute à vous" ("I am all yours").

Aix, Corrèze

To the south-east of the town about 1.5 km in a direct line is the railway station of La Marsalouse which is served by TER Limousin and TER Auvergne trains which link Clermont-Ferrand to Gare de Limoges-Bénédictins and Gare de Brive-la-Gaillarde.

André Michel Lwoff

Lwoff was born in Ainay-le-Château, Allier, in Auvergne, France, the son of Marie (Siminovitch), an artist, and Solomon Lwoff, a psychiatrist.

Anne Lascaris

At 11 and a half years old, Anne married Louis de Clermont-Lodève, then on 28 January 1501 she married René of Savoy.

Antoine de Vignerot du Plessis

A first cousin was Marie Charlotte, Princess of Beauvau, wife of Charles Juste de Beauvau and daughter of the Duke of Bouillon.

Austromoine

At Clermont he is said to have converted the senator St. Cassius and the pagan priest St. Victorinus, to have sent St. Sirenatus (Cerneuf) to Thiers, St. Marius to Salers, Sts.

Bracchio

:For the dog breed, see Braque d'Auvergne

Charles Albanel

Charles Albanel (1616 – 11 January 1696), born in Auvergne, was a French missionary explorer in Canada, and aJesuit priest.

Charles I, Duke of Bourbon

He was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis from 1424, and Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne from 1434 to his death, although due to the imprisonment of his father after the Battle of Agincourt, he acquired control of the duchy more than eighteen years before his father's death.

Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne

Château de Clermont

The Château de Clermont, built between 1643 and 1649, is located in the commune of Le Cellier, 27 kilometres (17 mi) from Nantes in France.

Château de Montbillon

The Château de Montbillon is a château in Saint-Sornin in the Allier départment in the Auvergne region of France.

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.

Clermont Estates Historic District

Clermont Estates Historic District was a national historic district located near Germantown in Columbia County, New York.

Clermont-d'Excideuil

Until the end of the 18th century, there was a number of megaliths in Clermont, aligned like those in Carnac.

Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport

On 27 October 1972, Air Inter Flight 696, Vickers Viscount 724 F-BMCH, en route from Lyon to Clermont-Ferrand, crashed 4 km west of Noirétable during bad weather; 60 on board died, 8 survived.

On 28 December 1971, Vickers Viscount F-BOEA of Air Inter was damaged beyond economic repair when it departed the runway on a training flight during a simulated failure of #4 engine.

Colmar – Meyenheim Air Base

The air base hosts a meteorological station maintained by Météo-France; the station is the sixth driest in France (after MarignaneMarseille Provence Airport, Perpignan, Clermont-Ferrand, Chartres and Évreux) of the French meterorological service network.

Cornelius Carman House

When steam-powered vessels began to be used following Robert Fulton's voyage up the river on the Clermont in the 1820s, he began building them.

Countess Elisabeth of Nassau

Marie de La Tour d'Auvergne (1599 – 24 May 1665) married Henri de La Trémoille, Duke of Thouars, Prince of Talmont and had issue;

D'Estaing family

Lucie Madeleine d'Estaing (Paris 1743 - Clermont-Ferrand 1826), viscountes of Ravel in Auvergne, illegitimate half-sister of the admiral, mistress of Louis XV; married, she had numerous descendants including two daughters of Louis XV.

Emmanuel Maurice, Duke of Elbeuf

She was a niece of the vicomte de Turenne.

FC Cournon-d'Auvergne

They are based in the town of Cournon-d'Auvergne and their home stadium is the Stade Joseph Gardet, which has a capacity of 437 spectators.

French bagpipes

In the northern regions of Occitania:Auvergne, is found the (generally) bellows blown cabreta, and in Limousin the mouth blown chabreta.

Genesius, Bishop of Clermont

After serving as bishop for five years, fearing for his own soul, he left Clermont secretly and went to Rome in the garb of a pilgrim.

Guillaume Bouzignac

He studied at the Cathedral of Narbonne until 1604, and was choirmaster at the Cathedrals of Angoulême, Bourges, Tours, and Clermont-Ferrand.

Humbert II of Viennois

It is with these latter titles that his death is recorded in a necrology of Vauvert: in Clermont-en-Auvergne, at forty three years of age in 1355.

Joan de Munchensi

Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and Wexford in 1296 (c. 1270 – June 23, 1324), married firstly to Beatrice de Clermont and married secondly to Marie de Châtillon

John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach

John Christian was married with Marie Anne Henriëtte Leopoldine de La Tour d'Auvergne, marquise of Bergen op Zoom and a grandniece of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne.

Jus Spolii

Councils (Tribur, 895; Trosly, 909; Clermont, 1095; II Lateran, 1139) of the Church legislated against these abuses, finally obtaining a renunciation of this so-called right.

Kate DiCamillo

At age five, she moved to Clermont, Florida for her health (warmer climate) with her mother and her older brother Curt DiCamillo, who would become a noted architectural historian.

Laura Mancini

#Marie Anne (1649–1714) married Maurice Godefroy de la Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, nephew of Turenne.

Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons

His maternal cousins included the Duke of Vendôme as well as the Duke of Bouillon and Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne.

Martine Blanc

Martine Blanc (born 16 September 1944 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme) is a French author and illustrator of ten books for children including The story of Timothy, the Two Hoots series in collaboration with Helen Cresswell, and All about Jesus.

Montmarault

The Petite Valette campground has been named the best camping of the Auvergne by the German ADAC.

New York State Route 9G

In Columbia County, NY 9G passes the Clermont State Historic Site and the Stone Jug in Clermont before proceeding north into the town of Germantown and the hamlet of the same name contained within.

Nicetius of Provence

He received, as constituting his duchy, the cities of Rodez, Clermont, and Uzès.

Northanger Abbey

:"I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocket-book. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time."

Pablo Caliero

He came from Brassac-les-Mines (Auvergne, France), and wrote some of the most famous pieces of French Tango music, with international notice, and recognised by his Argentine peers.

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

The animated marble figures of the cardinal's parents, Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne and his wife, together with a Battle Relief and a winged Genius are today installed at the Hôtel-Dieu in Cluny, a fragment of the heraldic Tower in a granary of the abbey.

Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus

When consul in 121 BC he campaigned in Gallia Transalpina (in the modern day Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes regions) with Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus against the Gallic tribes of the Allobroges and Arverni whom he defeated.

Randol Abbey

Randol Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Randol) is a Benedictine monastery situated at Randol near the village of Saint-Saturnin, Puy-de-Dôme department, in the Auvergne mountains of France.

Ranks in the French Army

Six marshals of France have been given the even more exalted rank of "marshal general of France" (maréchal général de France): Biron, Lesdiguières, Turenne, Villars, Saxe and Soult.

Rooster Run

Rooster Run is a famous country store halfway between Bardstown and Clermont in Nelson County, Kentucky It is world famous for its caps, where tourists for decades have bought, thanks to Jack Kerouac.

Saint Martial

All that is known about him may be summed up thus: Under the Emperors Decius and Gratius (AD 250-251), Pope Fabian sent out seven bishops from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel: Gatien to Tours, Trophimus to Arles, Paul to Narbonne, Saturnin to Toulouse, Denis to Paris, Austromoine to Clermont, and Martial to Limoges.

Saint-Michel de Grandmont Priory

This 12th-century priory is one of the best-preserved of the 160 Grandmontine monasteries, a religious order, founded by Étienne of Thiers, son of Viscount of Thiers from the Auvergne).

St. Julian of Brioude

Gregory's attempts to enlarge the St. Julian's cult from the Auvergne to Touraine and Aquitaine were unsuccessful, however, and Julian is now only remembered through his basilica in the town of Brioude itself.

Villa Marguerite

The Villa Marguerite or Château Marguerite is a mansion in Neussargues-Moissac in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region of France.

William of Auvergne

William VII the Young of Auvergne (1143 – c. 1155) (also called William IV or VIII) (remained Count-Dauphin of Auvergne)


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