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3 unusual facts about Deux-Ponts


Deux-Ponts

Breguet Deux-Ponts, a family of 1940s and 1950s French double-deck transport aircraft produced by Breguet

Philippe Guillaume Vicomte de Deux-Ponts (1754–1807), officer of the Frencharmy and later general of the Bavarian Army

Régiment de Royal Deux-Ponts, a German-French infantry regiment, predecessor of the 99e régiment d'infanterie de ligne


Achille Bocchi

— « Des délais de l'intervention divine : grâce et salut dans deux emblèmes d'Achille Bocchi », in J. Pigeaud (éd.), « Les Grâces », Littératures Classiques, n°60, automne 2006, p.

Actant

Étienne Souriau, Les deux cent mille situations dramatiques, in French 1950.

Beatriz Stix-Brunell

Stix-Brunell trained at the School of American Ballet from 2000 to 2005, when she was admitted to L'Ecole de Danse de l'Opera de Paris where she danced in the Demonstrations de l'Ecole de Danse, Serge Lifar's Entre deux Rondes and Rudolf Nureyev's La Bayadère with the Paris Opera Ballet.

Brigitte Borghese

During the seventies she had roles in several films, her first being, a part in the adult feature Je prends la chose... du bon côté!, La bonzesse, Tout le monde il en a deux, her first time working with French director Jean Rollin, the fantasy horror Tendre Dracula, with Peter Cushing and Alida Valli, ...et mourir de désir, Les petites saintes y touchent, Les bijoux de famille, Le commando des chauds lapins, and L'hippopotamours.

Café de Flore

In his essay "A Tale of Two Cafes" and his book Paris to the Moon, American writer Adam Gopnik mused over the possible explanations of why the Flore had become, by the late 1990s, much more fashionable and popular than its rival, Les Deux Magots, despite the fact that the latter cafe was associated with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and other famous thinkers of the 1940s and 1950s.

Café de Paris

Café de Paris (Cubzac-les-Ponts), wine-making enterprise founded in 1967 and located around and within limestone caves at Cubzac-les-Ponts commune in Aquitaine region of Southwestern France

Colombey-les-Deux-Églises

A memorial museum was inaugurated in October 2008 by Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel.

This joint Franco-German act marked the fiftieth anniversary of talks in Colombey on 14 September 1958 between Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, as part of the process of post-war reconciliation.

De Gaulle withdrew repeatedly to Colombey when his political fortunes waned, first on the establishment of the Fourth Republic in 1946, and then between 1953 and 1958, before he became President again at the height of the Algerian Crisis.

Conseil général des ponts et chaussées

The Conseil général des Ponts et Chaussées (CGPC "Civil Engineering General Council") is one of the oldest institutions in France and the direct heir of the assembly of inspectors general of bridges and roads, which met regularly from 1747 under Daniel-Charles Trudaine.

Denys Puech

1881 and 1883 saw his first successes, when he twice won the second prize in the prix de Rome contest, for his Tyrtaeus singing the Messanians (Tyrtée chantant les Messéniennes) and Diagoras dying for joy on learning of his two victorious children's triumph at the Olympic Games (Diagoras mourant de joie en apprenant le triomphe de ses deux enfants vainqueurs aux Jeux Olympiques) respectively.

Deux Mamelles

Deux Mamelles, Collines des Mamelles, or simply Mamelles are twin hills located in Ouakam, a suburban commune of Dakar, in the Cap-Vert peninsula, Senegal.

Dinorah

The story takes place near the rural town of Ploërmel and is based on two Breton tales by Émile Souvestre, "La Chasse aux trésors" and "Le Kacouss de l'Armor", both published separately in 1850 in the Revue des deux mondes.

Doudou Gouirand

With the very successful Nino Rota/Fellini album (Deux Z/Harmonia Mundi, 1995), acclaimed arrangement and composition work done around Nino Rota's film music, he explored a more European and typically Mediterranean idiom, while keeping a lot of improvisation.

Élysée Treaty

The first meeting between the two heads of state took place at the private home of General de Gaulle at Colombey-les-Deux-Églises in September 1958.

ENSAE ParisTech

ENSAE is member of ParisTech, the excellence engineering cluster gathering the best parisian Grandes Ecoles in each area of engineering: X, AgroParisTech, ENGREF, Ponts, ESPCI, Mines, ENSTA, ENSAM, Télécom Paris, Chimie ParisTech).

Entre Deux Guerres

L'Entre Deux Guerres is a French expression (~ between two wars) which refers to the interwar period between World War I and World War II (1918 - 1939).

Evelyn Hart

She was the first Canadian to win gold at the Varna International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria in 1980 for the Belong Pas de Deux choreographed by Norbert Vesak.

Floc'h

on a collection of cartoons inspired by the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jamais deux sans trois.

Gare de Parthenay

The Gare de Parthenay, or Parthenay railway station, is the railway station in the town of Parthenay, in the department of Deux-Sèvres in western France.

Gregoria

Cyril Mango in Deux études sur Byzance et la Perse Sassanide (1985) speculated they were descendants of Heraclius of Edessa, a general under Leo I and Zeno.

Guiers

Entre-deux-Guiers, commune in the Isère department in south-eastern France

Guillaume de Tonquédec

He was made famous in 1991 as school-boy and Claude Jade's son Jules in Tableau d'honneur, followed by his Serge along with Juliette Binoche in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue and Claude Zidi's Deux starring Gérard Depardieu.

Jamel Debbouze

In 1996, he played a small part in Les Deux papas et la maman, a film by Jean-Marc Doval with Smaïn and Arielle Dombasle.

Léo Marjane

During this period she toured extensively in the United States, Canada and South America, and also had small roles in two films: Les deux gamines (1951) and Jean Renoir's Elena et les hommes (1956).

Léon Boëllmann

Suite gothique, op. 25, Deuxième Suite, op. 27, Offertoire sur des noëls, Carillon et Choral des Douze Pièces op. 16, Deux esquisses, Fantaisie, Heures mystiques (extraits), op. 29 & 30, Helga Schauerte-Maubouet, Kuhn organ of Minden cathedral (Germany), Syrius SYR 141374.

Les deux aveugles

A complete performance of Les deux aveugles (followed by Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins) forms part of the 1996 television film Offenbachs Geheimnis, directed by István Szabó.

Les Deux Plateaux

Les Deux Plateaux, more commonly known as the Colonnes de Buren, is a highly controversial art installation created by the French artist Daniel Buren in 1985–1986.

Mallaury Nataf

She also played in the movie Les Deux Papas et la Maman with Smaïn, Arielle Dombasle and Antoine de Caunes.

Maria Kochetkova

Kochetkova performed the Grand Pas de Deux in San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker which was broadcast by PBS in 2008 and won the solo gold medal in the NBC series Superstars of Dance which was watched by over 10 million viewers.

Maurice Dekobra

Philippe Collas "Maurice Dekobra: gentleman entre deux mondes", Paris, Seguier, 2001, ISBN 2-84049-264-4

Médaillon Des Deux Épées

His three Médaillon Des Deux Épées and his Légion d'Honneur are visible in this 1788 portrait by Antoine Vestier, which was modified in 1804 to include the Légion d'Honneur.

Phạm Xuân Ẩn

He told his friend Stanley Karnow, in Karnow's book Vietnam: A History, that his love for America and Vietnam was like the French song "J ai Deux Amours", but Ẩn felt obliged, like many other Vietnamese, to had to see Vietnam free.

Phyllis Zouzounis

In 1987, Zouzounis and her Jim Penpraze, began their operation at Dry Creek, Deux Amis Winery, which specializes in Zinfandels.

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

At this time, he added the name of the Nemours district south of Paris to his name to distinguish himself from other du Ponts in the Assembly.

Plastered in Paris

The two return to the Commissioner admitting defeat when it is revealed the X is actually the Sûreté's new physical training instructor who was giving the Inspector and Deux Deux a workout.

The Inspector and Deux-Deux trail him up the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro where they find X at the edge of a mountain cliff.

Poèmes

#Henri Dutilleux Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou: I. "II n'y avait que des troncs déchirés" 2:19

Quebec Autoroute 10

The A-10 in Montreal is jointly owned by the city of Montreal, the Société Les Ponts Jacques Cartier, and Federal Bridge Corporation (an agency of the Government of Canada).

Qui de nous deux

Qui de Nous Deux (2003) is an album by French singer-song-writer Matthieu Chedid in his persona as -M-.

Rupert Pennefather

He was promoted to principal status alongside his pas-de-deux partner Lauren Cuthbertson in June 2008, following well-received performances in Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Opera House.

Two Mountains

Lake of Two Mountains, Lac des Deux Montagnes, lake in the Greater Montreal Area

Two Years' Vacation

Deux ans de vacances is the first book Shiori Shiomiya reads from the shelves of the school library during a flashback to her childhood in the anime The World God Only Knows.

Under the Bridges of Paris

"Under the Bridges of Paris" is a 1914 popular song with music written by Vincent Scotto, the original French lyrics (entitled "Sous les ponts de Paris") by Jean Rodor (1914), and English lyrics by Dorcas Cochran (1952).

Yves Lapierre

He also composed music for several Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television dramas; including the Guy Fournier TV serials Jamais deux sans toi (1977–80) and L'Or et le papier (1988-9) and Lise Payette's La Bonne aventure.


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