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8 unusual facts about Compiègne


AFC Compiègne

L'Association Football Club de Compiègne or AFC Compiègne is a French football club based in the commune of Compiègne.

They play their home matches at the Stade Paul Cosyns in Compiègne.

Bernard Stiegler

He has been a Director at the Collège international de philosophie, and is a Professor at the Université de Technologie at Compiègne.

Carola of Vasa

In 1871, she accompanied Albert to Compiègne after the defeat of France, where she entertained the officers of the victorious armies as a popular hostess.

Henry Drysdale Dakin

Due to a request for a chemist by Alexis Carrel to the Rockefeller Institute, Dakin joined Carrel in 1916 at a temporary hospital in Compiègne.

Just de Noailles

Louis XVIII treated him extremely well with Compiègne, created him Knight of the Order of Saint-Louis and commander of the Légion d'honneur on 13 August 1814 and named him ambassador to Saint Petersburg, where he remained until 1819; persona grata with the czar, he was the only foreign minister allowed at the imperial table on the dinner of 24 December 1814.

Louis de Crevant, Duke of Humières

Louis de Crévant, Duc d'Humières (1628 – August 30, 1694) was a Marshal of France and Governor of Compiègne, Bourbonnais and Lille.

Vassal

According to Eginhard's brief description, the commendatio made to Pippin the Younger in 757 by Tassillo, Duke of Bavaria, involved the relics of Saints Denis, Rusticus, and Éleuthère, Saint Martin, and Saint Germain, which had apparently been assembled at Compiègne for the event.


Altfrid

In the years that followed it is possible to trace a great deal of travelling on Altfrid's part: in 862 he was in Asselt, later in Compiègne and Savonnières, in 864 in Pitres, in 865 at the Synod of Thousey and in 867 in Metz.

Bertrand de Poulengy

He was also the squire who accompanied Joan Of Arc to Chinon with Jean De Metz and other appointed escorts, and (along with De Metz) continued to accompany Joan on her adventures throughout her military career, until her capture at Compiègne in March of 1430.

Bradbury Robinson

In France, he became an instructor at the Inter-Allied Tank School in Recloses, until his battalion was ordered to the front on November 1, 1918, ten days before the Armistice.

Charles Grisart

Charles Jean Baptiste Grisart (29 September 1837, Paris – 11 March 1904, Compiègne) was a French operatic composer.

Charles Percier

They also worked at Josephine's Château de Malmaison, at the Château de Montgobert for Pauline Bonaparte, and did alterations and decorations for former Bourbon palaces or castles at Compiègne, Saint-Cloud, and Fontainebleau.

Chauny

The railway station in Chauny is part of the Paris - St Quentin - Maubeuge line, and is well serviced by Corail and TER trains towards Paris, Compiègne and Saint Quentin.

Gare de Castel

The station was closed in the 1980s, when the line from Longueil-Ste-Marie to Creil was closed, and the line Amiens-Compiègne was turned into single track.

The station was situated at km 8.325 of the Amiens-Montdidier-Creil (via Longueil Ste Marie) line opened in 1853 by Compagnie du Nord and the Amiens-Compiègne line via Estrées-Saint-Denis.

The station was served by local trains on the line from Amiens to Compiègne.

Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy

With her husband, and accompanied by the Countess of Namur, Jeanne de Harcourt, Isabella then travelled through the main territories of Burgundy: from Ghent (16 January) to Kortrijk (13 February) to Lille, and then to Brussels, Arras, Péronne-en-Mélantois, Mechelen and, by mid-March Noyon, where Isabella, now pregnant, chose to rest through the spring, only leaving when Joan of Arc led a campaign against the nearby Compiègne.

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.

Notre Dame High School, Sheffield

The school has four houses: Picardy, Compiègne, St Julie, Cuvilly, all having roots in places associated with St Julie Billart, the founder of the Order of Notre Dame.

Robert le Coq

He ran great danger at the estates of Compiègne in May 1358, where his dismissal was demanded, and he had to flee to Saint-Denis, where Charles the Bad and Étienne Marcel came to find him.

Ruins of the Reich

Part 3 - Warsaw Ghetto, Gestapo headquarters, Pawiak Prison, Palmiry massacre site, Oskar Schindler's Deutsche Emalia Fabrika, Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Fermont, Immerhof and Hackenberg on the Maginot Line, Compiègne, tomb of Napoleon and the German submarine pens and Cross-Channel guns in Normandy and the Pas-de-Calais.

Selsey Bill

There have been many wrecks off Selsey Bill over the years; probably one of the first recorded was Saint Wilfrid who when appointed Archbishop of York went to Compiègne in France, to be consecrated.

Vergilius of Salzburg

After spending two years at Cressy, near Compiègne, he went to Bavaria, at the invitation of Duke Odilo, where he founded the monastery of Chiemsee, and within a year or two was made Abbot of St. Peter's at Salzburg.

Walter of Compiègne

Walter of Compiègne was a French poet who lived in the first half of the 12th century and was a monk at Tours.


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