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unusual facts about East France



Malika Benarab-Attou

Malika Benarab-Attou (born 25 March 1963 in Aïn Benian, Algeria) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the South-East France constituency.


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Estérel, Quebec

Around 1920, Belgian Baron Louis Empain acquired substantially all the land around Lake Masson intending to build a resort called Estérel, named after the Esterel massif in Provence, south-east France.

Freygolo

Active members of the rising generation of groups, these musicians from Nice (South-East France) have earned a reputation for being a strong live group, speaking with groups such as: Burning Heads, Uncommonmenfrommars, Satanic Surfers, Mad Caddies, Less Than Jake, Big D and The Kids Table, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Mustard Plug, Authority Zero, and Hot Water Music.

Haestingas

It has been suggested that the Haestingas were of Frankish origin, based on Watt being a sub-king to the South Saxons and there being a place-name of Watten in north-east France.

La Fée Absinthe

Established in 1705, the Cherry Rocher distillery is located in La Côte-Saint-André (Isère), in the Rhone-Alpes region of south-east France.

Léon Vasseur

Vasseur was born in Bapaume in north-east France, the son of Augustin Vasseur, the local church organist and choirmaster.

Malika Benarab-Attou

She mvoed to Chambéry in 2006 in the Savoie region of South-East France.

Paris-Rhône

A 1942 Paris-Rhône can be seen, in 2011, at the Musée Automobile de Provence at Orgon in south-east France.