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7 unusual facts about Elbeuf


Agglomeration community of Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe

The Agglomeration community of Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe (French: Communauté d'agglomération Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe) is the intercommunal structure gathering the commune of Rouen and that part of the Rouen metropolitan area that lies in France.

Clearing the Channel Coast

The advance to the Seine had outstripped the preparations of the Royal Canadian Engineers for bridging equipment and assault boats, but with hard work, newly assembled assault boats carried the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division across the Seine at Elbeuf on 27 August.

To this end, the US Third Army advanced northwards to Elbeuf, across the British 2nd Army's line of advance, to cut off the route towards Paris.

Elbeuf

David Vigor was born here and was a member of the Australian Senate, representing the Australian Democrats and the Unite Australia Party

Gaston Noury

Noury grew up in Elbeuf where his grandfather was founder and director of the local museum.

History of the Ursulines in New Orleans

The names of some are known: Sister Saint-Augustin (Marie Tranchepain, the mother superior), Sister Angélique (Marie le Boullanger), and Dame Jude, all from Rouen; and Mother François-Xavier from le Havre, Madame Cavelier from Elbeuf, two other cities in Normandy.

Transports en Commun de l'Agglomération Rouennaise

TCAR is a subsidiary of Veolia Transport and covers 45 communes of the CREA.


Charles Thomas, Prince of Vaudémont

Charles Thomas was the only son of Charles Henri de Lorraine, prince de Vaudémont and Commercy and Anne Élisabeth de Lorraine-Elbeuf, and a grandson of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine.

Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat

Although the Lorraine-Elbeufs were reckoned among the princes étrangers at the court of France, as a cadet branch (Elbeuf) of a non-reigning cadet branch (Guise) of the House of Lorraine, it was not their custom to marry crowned heads.

Natalie Victurnienne, Marchioness of Rougé

In 1789 she and her sons left France for Switzerland, and in 1790 they returned and lived in seclusion at the Château de Moreuil with her husband's aunt, Innocente-Catherine-Renée, Duchess d'Elbeuf and Princess de Lorraine (1707–94; widow of Emmanuel-Maurice de Lorraine).


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