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84 unusual facts about Denis


19th century in LGBT rights

October 28 — The Marquis de Custine is beaten and left for dead after propositioning a male soldier in Saint-Denis.

3 Days to Kill

Some scenes were filmed in the new film studios of the Cité du Cinéma founded by Luc Besson in Saint-Denis in France.

A Terrible Night

The film was made with the Méliès-Reulos portable camera in the open air, in the garden of Méliès's home in Montreuil, using natural sunlight and a cloth backdrop.

Action of 25 September 1806

Hood's squadron was spread out, tacking southeast towards the Chassiron Lighthouse at Saint-Denis-d'Oléron with HMS Centaur in the centre, HMS Revenge to the east (or windward) and Monarch to the west.

Appelle mon numéro

On 8 October, some media revealed that the music video was shot on 4 and 5 October in the studios of Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.

Astatic

The Astatic was a French cyclecar manufactured from 1920 to 1922 by Automobiles Astatic, Saint-Ouen, Seine, France.

Béatrice Poulot

Béatrice Poulot (born in 1968 in Saint-Denis, Réunion), who performs as simply Béatrice, is a French singer.

Burchard of Würzburg

With Fulrad of Saint-Denis, he brought to Zachary the famous question of Pepin, whose answer was supposed to justify the assumption of regal power by the Carolingians.

Camusat

Denis-François Camusat (1697–1732), French historian, grand nephew of Nicholas Camusat

Canal Saint-Denis

The Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur, in the basements of the old Abbaye royale de Saint-Denis

Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine

Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine, most usually known as CAMS was a French manufacturer of flying boats, founded in Saint-Ouen in November 1920 by Lawrence Santoni.

Conon de Béthune

L'autrier un jor aprés la Saint Denise (The day after Saint Denis' Day)

Coronation

To legitimate his deposition of the last of the Merovingian kings, Pepin the Short was twice crowned and anointed, at the beginning of his reign in 752, and for the first time by a pope in 754 in Saint-Denis.

Council of Paris

The Préfecture de Police (which also has authority over the fire brigades of Paris), for example, has still a jurisdiction extending to the petite couronne (small corona or halo) of Paris, the three bordering départements (Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts de Seine, and Val de Marne) for some operations such as fire protection and rescue operations, and the Préfecture de Police is still directed by France's national government.

Courrier de Lyon case

During the night of 27 and 28 April 1796, a mail coach was ambushed outside Paris (commune of Vert-Saint-Denis) by several men who stole a large sum of money (7 million livres).

Dany Bill

Right after that he visited RM Boxing Gym in his home town, Saint-Ouen where he met his longtime trainer/manager Rachid Saadi who started training him right away.

Delphine Software International

In 2001, Delphine Software International relocated to Saint-Ouen.

Denis

The medieval and modern French name "Denis" derives from the ancient name Dionysius.

Denis Schneider

In 2002 and 2003, Schneider exhibited his large scale paintings at the Gérard Philipe Theatre of St Denis.

Denis Viger

He worked as a carpenter and also carved wooden objects for the church at Saint-Denis.

Denis-Émery Papineau

He helped found the Revue canadienne, the newspaper L'Avenir and the daily Le Pays.

Denis-Luc Frayssinous

Mathieu-Richard-Auguste Henrion (Paris, 2 vols., 1844) for Vie de Mgr. Frayssinous, évêque d'Hermopolis (biography).

The consecration of Frayssinous as bishop of Hermopolis in partibus, his election to the Académie française, and his appointment to the grand-mastership of the university, followed in rapid succession.

Denis-Nicolas Le Nourry

In 1710 he edited the "Liber ad Donatum confessorem de mortibus persecutorum", and in a special dissertation tries hard to prove that the book was written by Lucius Caecilius and not by Lactantius.

Doom and Gloom

A music video for the song was released on 20 November 2012 and was directed by Jonas Åkerlund at the Cité du Cinéma in Saint-Denis starring Noomi Rapace.

Duncan Sayre MacInnes

In January 1918 he was appointed inspector of mines at general headquarters in Montreuil, France, and restored to the rank of Brigadier General.

Edith Lefel

In her 14th year, Lefel and her mother left for France, settling in the Saint-Denis suburb of Paris.

Edith of Wilton

Edith built a church at Wilton and dedicated it to Saint Denis.

Eliska Vincent

When she was widowed she inherited land in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis in Paris, giving her a secure income with which she helped promote women's rights and the rights of workers.

Étienne-Alexis Boucher

He was also a municipal councillor for the municipality of Saint-Denis-de-Brompton as well as a school commissionner for the Saint-Hyacinthe School Board.

Fenwick Groupe

The Fenwick Groupe is a French engineering company, established in 1862, located in Saint-Ouen on the northern outskirts of Paris.

Florence Guérin

On 31 May 1998 she was involved in a serious road traffic accident caused by a drunk driver at Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis.

Freddy Kemayo

Frédéric "Freddy" Kemayo (born May 6, 1982) is a French heavyweight kickboxer, fighting out of Faucon Gym in Villepinte, France.

Gare d'Ermont-Eaubonne

It is situated on the railway from Paris to Pontoise, and branch lines towards Valmondois, Argenteuil and Saint-Ouen.

Gare de Saint-Denis-près-Martel

The station is also on the preserved railway of the Chemin de Fer Touristique du Haut Quercy (CFTHQ) which operates between Martel and Saint-Denis-lès-Martel, a distance of 7 km.

Saint-Denis-près-Martel is a railway station in Saint-Denis-lès-Martel, Midi-Pyrénées, France.

Hornec gang

The Hornec clan is led by three brothers, born in the Parisian suburb city of Montreuil.

Hyacinthe-Marie Simon, dit Delorme

He was born in Saint-Denis, the son of seigneur Jacques-Hyacinthe Simon dit Delorme and Marie-Anne Crevier Décheneaux.

Janoir

The Janoir was a French automobile manufactured from 1921 until 1922 by a motorcycle and sidecar company in Saint-Ouen.

John of Valois, Count of Montpensier

#in 1386 at Saint-Ouen to Catherine of France (1378 † 1388), daughter of Charles V and of Joanna of Bourbon

Juliette Dodu

A street bears her name in Paris, Havre, Montreuil, and Saint-Denis de la Réunion, where one likewise counts a public high school named in her honor.

La Grande Chaloupe

La Grande Chaloupe is a village on the island of Réunion, an overseas region of France in the Indian Ocean, located on its northern coast between Saint-Denis and La Possession.

Le Bureau

It takes place in Villepinte, a business park in the northeast suburbs of Paris.

Livia Lancelot

Livia Lancelot (born 11 February 1988, Saint-Denis) is a French women's motocross champion .

Louis Stettner

He went back and forth between New York and Paris for almost two decades and finally settled permanently in Saint-Ouen, near Paris, in 1990.

Medieval architecture

The various elements of Gothic architecture emerged in a number of 11th and 12th century building projects, particularly in the Île de France area, but were first combined to form what we would now recognise as a distinctively Gothic style at the 12th century abbey church of Saint-Denis in Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Midhurst

Formerly standing within the grounds of Midhurst Castle, the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Denys was mentioned in 1291 and later in 1367 as standing, "in a place called Courtgene".

Montjoie

Montjoie (Old French Munjoie) is the historical battle cry supposedly used under Charlemagne and later in the medieval kingdom of France, where it was at some point, presumably in the 12th century (Louis the Fat), extended to Montjoie Saint Denis, in reference to the Oriflamme battle standard which was originally kept in the Abbey of St. Denis.

MP 05

A fleet of trains will also be deployed to line 14 between 2013 and 2017 in order to improve service frequencies and to prepare for the line's northern extension towards Mairie de Saint-Ouen.

Muriel Hurtis-Houairi

Muriel Hurtis-Houairi (born March 25, 1979 in Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a track and field athlete from France who specialises in the 200 metres.

Musée Bouilhet-Christofle

The museum's main collection is located in a Parisian suburb at 112, rue Ambroise Croizat, Saint-Denis, France, and is open daily.

Nosfell

Nosfell (born 1 December 1977, in Saint-Ouen in Seine-Saint-Denis) is a rock musician who performs in a group with Pierre Lebourgeois (cellist) and Orkhan Murat (drummer).

Orléans – Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel Airport

Orléans – Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel Airport is a French airport located in the Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel commune in the Loiret département, Centre region, France

Papineau

Denis-Benjamin Papineau, son of Joseph Papineau, was a Joint Premier of the Province of Canada

Paris Métro Line 12

They operate the line today and have plans to extend it south as far as the town of Issy, and north to La Plaine Saint-Denis.

Paris Métro Line 7

In the north, the line begins at La Courneuve in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis at the intersection of National Routes 2 and 186.

Paris Métro Line 9

The line links Pont de Sèvres in Boulogne in the west with Montreuil in the east via the city center of Paris, creating a parabola type shape to its route.

Paul Éluard

Éluard was born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, the son of Clément Grindel and wife Jeanne Cousin.

Pierre-Denis, Comte de Peyronnet

He finally died on 2 January 1854 in the castle of Montferrand in Gironde.

Place Viger

Place Viger was both a grand hotel and railway station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, constructed in 1898 and named after Denis-Benjamin Viger a 19th-century Lower Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, and Patriote movement member.

Ponte, Campania

The territory was ruled by the Count Ranulf Baldwin Norman, who took care of the development, renewing and expanding the ancient church of Denis which he dedicated to St. Benedict.

Raymond Besse

He loved to illustrate the life in and around the capital city, especially in the northern areas of Saint-Ouen, Montmartre, Clichy and around the Canal Saint-Martin.

Recollects

In Newfoundland, Recollect friars established a friary in 1689 at the island's capital, Plaisance (now Placentia), which was staffed until 1701 by friars from Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Records and statistics of the Rugby World Cup

The city of Paris hosted matches in 1991, its adjacent suburb of Saint-Denis hosted matches in 1999, and both cities hosted matches in 2007.

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.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion

The seat of the bishop is Cathédrale Saint-Denis in Saint-Denis.

Rorgue

Founded in 1893 in Clermont-Ferrand as a domestic hotwater and boiler maker, the factory moved to Saint-Denis, next to Paris, at the beginning of the 20th century.

Rouvray-Saint-Denis

It has long been thought that it was the site of the Battle of the Herrings in 1429, when Sir John Fastolf beat off an attack on an English convoy taking supplies to the siege of Orleans; but in his biography of Fastolf, The Real Falstaff, Stephen Cooper argues that the battle is more likely to have taken place at Rouvray-Sainte-Croix.

Rubia tinctorum

The oldest European textiles dyed with madder come from the grave of the Merovingian queen Arnegundis in Saint-Denis near Paris (between 565 and 570 AD).

Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis

The Reggiani family hairdressers' shop was at number 83; Serge Reggiani evoked the spirit of this street in an autobiographical song.

Sakae Ōsugi

1923 - February: Arrives in France; May: Arrested at May Day demonstration in Saint-Denis; June: Deported from France; July: Arrives in Japan.

Seine-Saint-Denis

A number of hip hop artists come from the Seine-Saint-Denis, including one of the first major hip-hop groups in France, NTM, as well as Lord Kossity, or more recent acts such as Tandem or Sefyu.

Serge Provost

He is a professor of composition and analysis at the CMQM where some of his notable pupils have included composers Patrick Saint-Denis and Nicolas Gilbert.

SOMUA S35

On 17 May the Army had already contacted a subsidiary of Schneider et Cie — the Société d'Outillage Mécanique et d'Usinage d'Artillerie (or SOMUA) based at Saint-Ouen — to build a prototype.

Stade de Paris

The Stade de Paris (usually called Stade Bauer) is a 8,000-capacity football (soccer) stadium in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis in the northern suburbs of Paris.

Stade Grimonprez-Jooris

The delays forced Lille OSC to play their league matches at Stadium Nord Lille Métropole and their 2005–06 UEFA Champions League games at Stade de France in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.

Tchavolo Schmitt

He became influential among his peers, in particular at Porte de Montreuil or Chope des Puces in Saint-Ouen, legendary homes of manouche swing.

Telecommunications in Réunion

The telephone system has its centre in Saint-Denis, and the domestic telephone system uses a modern open wire and microwave relay network.

The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis

The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis is a book about the history of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis by Sumner McKnight Crosby.

Tholomé

Tholomé company was located at Rue Godillot 27 in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis.

Thomas Chapais

Born in Saint-Denis, Quebec (then Canada East), the son of Jean-Charles Chapais, a Father of Canadian Confederation, and Henriette-Georgina Dionne, he received a Bachelor's degree in 1876 from Université Laval and was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1879.

Valentin Roberge

Born in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, Roberge had spells with hometown's ESD Montreuil, Les Lilas FC and Paris FC before joining En Avant de Guingamp for his senior debuts, but he went on to appear only for the reserve side.

Valeo

The Société Anonyme Française du Ferodo was founded in 1923 in Saint-Ouen, a suburb of Paris.

Xing Huina

In 2003, she came in 7th and broke the World Junior Record (30:31.55) in the memorable race of 10,000m at Saint-Denis World Championships.


Afropone

The fossils were first studied by Russian paleontologists Gennady M. Dlussky and Alexandr Rasnitsyn with South African paleontologist Denis Brothers.

Alison Van Pelt

Painters—Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack and Chuck Close among them—would create paintings that appeared to be photographs.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Her father, Denis Brownell Murphy (died 1842), was a miniature and enamel painter.

Brent St. Denis

St. Denis was defeated by Carol Hughes of the New Democratic Party in the 2008 federal election.

Cameca

Also in the early 1950s settles the company in the factory of Courbevoie, boulevard Saint-Denis where it will remain more than fifty years.

Christian Olsson

2004: Turin (Grand Prix) - 17.61 m; Bergen (Golden League) - 17.58 m; Bydgoszcz (European Cup super league) - 17.30 m; Gateshead (Grand Prix) - 17.43 m; Rome (Golden League) - 17.50 m; Paris Saint-Denis (Golden League) - 17.41 m; Zürich (Golden League) - 17.46 m; Brussels (Golden League) - 17.44 m; Berlin (Golden League) - 17.45 m; Monaco (World Athletics Final) - 17.66 m

Denis Aberhart

Denis Charles Aberhart (born 23 March 1953 in Motueka) is a former New Zealand first class cricketer who played for Canterbury and Central Districts between 1976/77 and 1983/84.

Denis Gage Deane-Tanner

One version holds that Edward Sands was actually Denis Tanner, the director's younger brother.

Denis Mackey

Mackey was born at Richmond in Melbourne to commercial traveller Alphonsus Denis Mackey and Dulcie Edith, née Reid.

Denis Rose

Denis Rose (May 31, 1922, London - November 22, 1984, London) was an English jazz pianist and trumpeter.

Denis Shvidki

Denis Aleksandrovich Shvidki (born November 21, 1980) is a Ukrainian professional ice hockey right wing currently playing for Heilbronner Falken of the German 2nd Bundesliga.

Denis Walker

L to R: Denis Walker, Lord Sudeley, El Salvador's Foreign Minister, Andrew Smith (yellow tie), Dr Harvey Ward

Eric Denis

Eric "Roach" Denis' films have played in festivals such as Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, in Tver (Russia), DocsDF (Mexico City) and Nemo (Paris).

Gare d'Épinay-sur-Seine

The Gare d'Épinay-sur-Seine (Épinay-sur-Seine station) is one of the two railway stations in the commune of Épinay-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis department, France (the other being the Gare d'Épinay-Villetaneuse).

Georgina Verbaan

In 2002, she released her debut studio album Sugar Spider that resulted in a number of radio hits including "Ritmo", "Yo quiero bailar" a cover of Sonia & Selena and "Denis" a cover of Blondie.

Helen Caldicott

Helen Caldicott is featured along with foreign affairs experts, space security activists and military officials in interviews in Denis Delestrac's 2010 feature documentary Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space.

Helikopter-Streichquartett

The performers were: first violinist Irvine Arditti and pilot Marco Oliver; second violinist Graeme Jennings and pilot Lieutenant Denis Jans; violist Garth Knox and pilot Lieutenant Robert de Lange; cellist Rohan de Saram and pilot Captain Erik Boekelman (Stockhausen 1996, 216).

Jérôme Anthony

He was also a host of Nouvelle Star, a French version of Idol on W9 and later M6 with Estelle Denis and in Nouvelle Star, ça continue with Camille Combal.

John Kernan Mullen

Mullen was born to Denis Mullen (1806–86) and Ellen Mulray (1816–88) in the town of Ballinasloe, County Galway, in June 1847.

Michaël Niçoise

Michaël Joseph Niçoise (born 19 September 1984 in Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis) – commonly known as Dawood Nicoise – is a French football player from Guadeloupe, who is currently playing for Putrajaya SPA F.C. in the Malaysia Premier League.

Morris Engines

The Hotchkiss company of France, who were makers of the famous machine gun, hurriedly transferred production to England during World War I when it looked as if their St. Denis factory near Paris was going to be overrun by the Germans.

Movement director

Michel Saint-Denis taught movement in London and was an influential associate director alongside Peter Brook at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1962–1966, introducing influences from his work in Paris with his uncle Jacques Copeau.

Nicholas Alexander

Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon (born 1955), son of Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon

Óscar Denis

Oscar Denis Sánchez (born 2 October 1946, in Concepción) is a Paraguayan politician and the current Vice President.

Patrick Denis O'Donnell

Patrick Denis O'Donnell died in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, after a long illness, and his remains were interred in Glasnevin Cemetery, following a funeral with military honours and a pall-bearer party from the 5th Infantry Battalion, whose insignia he designed, and in the presence of the Chief of Staff, Lt. General James Sreenan, and accompanied by surviving family members, relatives and friends.

Renée Gailhoustet

Gailhoustet's works are to be found mainly in the Paris suburbs, first and foremost at Ivry-sur-Seine and Aubervilliers, but also in Saint-Denis (renovation of the Ilot Basilique, 1981–1985), Villejuif, Romainville and Villetaneuse.

Richard Pigott

As a young man he supported Irish nationalism and worked on the Nation and the Tablet before acting as manager of The Irishman, a newspaper founded by Denis Holland.

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.

Souarata Cissé

Souarata Cissé (born January 16, 1986 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France) is a French basketball player who played for French Pro A league clubs Pau-Orthez, Paris, Rouen and Hyères-Toulon Var Basket.

Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora

In only 10 years, "Little Jaffna", located at the last stretch of the winding street of Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis in the 10th arrondissement, between metros Gare de Nord and La Chapelle, has sprung to life and begun to truly flourish.

St. Brendan's College

Groundbreaking for the school started on 8 October 1939 and presided by Bishop Romuald Denis Hayes of Rockhampton.

Steven Horsford

In August 2011, Horsford appointed Senator Mo Denis to lead the caucus election efforts during for the 2012 election cycle, garnering criticism from some in his party due to Denis's sub-par fundraising.