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27 unusual facts about Essonne


Alphonse Lavallée

His son developed an arboretum in the park of the Château de Segrez in Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières (Essonne), which was one of the biggest in Europe at this time.

Boris Stark

In 1937 he was consecrated deacon and thereafter priest and worked at the Saint Nicholas Church of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois near Paris.

Boutigny

Boutigny-sur-Essonne, a commune in the Essonne département, a suburb of Paris

Boutigny-sur-Essonne

The nearby villages are La Ferté-Alais (aerodrome of Cerny - Jean Baptiste Salis: Annual international meeting) and Milly-la-Forêt (house of Jean Cocteau, historical village).

Cerny

Cerny, Essonne, a commune in the Arrondissement of Étampes in France

Corbeil Cathedral

The facilities were however inadequate for the needs of an episcopal administration, and the new town of Évry was chosen as a better-situated new episcopal centre, although entirely lacking in any suitable church building.

Ducks Deluxe

On 26 January 2008 they played Centre Culturel de Paul Baillart, Massy, near Paris, France.

Entelodon

Extensive remains of Entelodon deguilhemi were uncovered in Vayres-sur-Essonne, France.

Ernest Menault

Ernest Menault (1830, Angerville -1903) was a French author and zoologist

Essonne

In June 1963 Carrefour S.A. opened the first hypermarket in the Paris region at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (although the word "hypermarché" was first used only in 1966).

Évry Cathedral

Évry Cathedral of the Resurrection (Cathédrale de la Résurrection d'Évry) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the new town of Évry (Essonne), France, designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta.

FISEC

1989, May : The First Food Convention takes place at ENSIA, Massy, France.

French Argentine

Grand Bourg, named after the French village of Grand-Bourg, where the leader of the Argentine War of Independence, General José de San Martín, lived in exile - now a neighborhood of Évry.

Gare de Massy-Palaiseau

Massy–Palaiseau is an RER station, located in the city of Massy, with a junction of the RER B (B4 section) and RER C (C2 and C8 sections).

Gare de Massy-Verrières

Massy-Verrières is a station of the Île-de-France RER, located in Massy, at the junction of RER B (B4 section) and RER C (C2 section).

Heimat-Los

Their first E.P. was recorded in December 1983, in Massy, France.

Hypermarket

In Europe, the first hypermarket was created by Carrefour in 1963, at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France.

Ilan Halimi

He was released and found in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois.

Juliette Dodu

Around 1875, she began a relationship with the baron Félix Hippolyte Larrey, medical chief of the army and son of the celebrated Larrey, and inherited his fortune (including his small château at Bièvres, Essonne).

Les Rayons et les Ombres

La Tristesse d'Olympio ("The Sadness of Olympio", 1837) describes a man returning to Bièvres, Essonne to revisit memories of an old love affair.

Ma vie en rose

Although internationally presented as a Belgian film because of the nationality of Berliner, its director and co-screenwriter, the film is an international co-production between companies in Belgium, the United Kingdom and France — the majority of the production work was done by the French independent film house Haut et Court and the shooting took place south of Paris, France, near the commune of Évry.

Mad in Paris

It was established in 1992 and was composed of eight musicians and one female singer, Ounsa, who respectively came from the southern suburbs of Paris (Créteil, Ivry et Grigny.

Mikhail Osorgin

During the 1930s he spent much of his time in the village of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Essonne, where he owned a cottage.

Prix Herod

It was transferred to Évry in 1973, and from this point its distance was 1,600 metres.

Sainte-Geneviève Sports

Sainte-Geneviève Sports is a French football club based in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne).

ThalesRaytheonSystems

Thales-Raytheon Systems Company LLC (ThalesRaytheonSystems or TRS) is an aerospace and defence company co-headquartered in Massy, Paris, France and Fullerton, California, United States, and a 50:50 joint venture between Raytheon and Thales Group.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The crime takes place at the Chateau du Glandier, located in the forest, near the road leading to Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois and Montlhéry.


Altis Semiconductor

Altis is located on a 55 hectare site in Coudray-Montceaux and Corbeil-Essonnes (southern Paris area), at the heart of the technology campus “Essonne Nanopole”, gathering industry leaders.

Athis

Athis-Mons, a commune in the Essonne département, near Paris, France

Château de Farcheville

The Château de Farcheville is a 14th-century castle in the commune of Bouville near Paris in the département of Essonne.

Château de Mesnil-Voisin

The château de Mesnil-Voisin is a French château, located at the heart of the hamlet of "Mesnil-Voisin" in the commune of Bouray-sur-Juine in the department of Essonne.

CO Les Ulis

They are based in Les Ulis, Essonne and are currently playing in the Division Supérieure Régionale of Île-de-France, the seventh tier of the French football league system.

Didot family

Saint-Léger Didot devoted his attention to papermaking in the famous factory of Essonne, where one of his workers, Louis-Nicolas Robert invented a machine to make "endless" paper, and eventually 'sold' the patent to Didot.

FCF Juvisy

Football Club Féminin Juvisy-sur-Orge Essonne is a French football club based in Viry-Châtillon, a suburb of Paris.

Janémian

Built by a M. Janémian in Bièvres, Essonne, they had rear engines, transversely mounted, with chain drive to the rear wheels which were set closely together.

Jean Chalgrin

??-1778: Hunting lodge, "Rendez-vous de chasse de la Faisanderie" for the comte de Provence (Étiolles, Département Essonne),