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unusual facts about Estrée-Blanche



Abbaye Blanche

The Abbaye Blanche ("White Abbey"), was a nunnery founded in 1112 in Mortain, France.

Alan Lund

Lund trained as a dancer in his native Toronto and first established a performance reputation as a dance team with his wife Blanche, appearing during World War II in the revue Meet the Navy.

Association Nationale pour le Développement des Arts de la Mode

The ANDAM says Pierre-François Letué, graphic artist, book design and gives carte blanche to fashion photographer Jean-François Lepage to create a photographic series on the creation of the 80 winners.

Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan

Yvette Labrousse was born Yvonne Blanche Labrousse in the town of Sète, France on 15 February 1906.

Bianca e Falliero

The libretto was based on Antoine-Vincent Arnault's play Les Vénitiens, ou Blanche et Montcassin.

Bianca Maria

Bianca Maria is a feminine given name, a combination of the Italian name Bianca, which means "white" and is a cognate of the medieval name Blanche and of Maria, a Latin form of the Greek name Μαριαμ or Mariam or Maria, found in the New Testament.

Blanche Atkinson

Born in Aigburth, Blanche Atkinson was the daughter of a prosperous Liverpool soap manufacturer, Jonathan Atkinson.

Blanche Barrow

Buck was severely wounded in the withering gunfire, shot through the head and Blanche took shards of glass in her eyes, but all five gang members escaped to an abandoned amusement park near Dexter, Iowa.

Blanche Ely High School

Blanche Ely High School offers medical and engineering magnet programs and vocational programs such as the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) and the LPN nursing

Blanche of Artois

After Henry's death, Blanche married Edmund Crouchback (1245–1296), in 1276, an English prince who was a younger son of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence.

Blanche of Lancaster

However, through his marriage to Blanche, John of Gaunt became Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Earl of Lincoln and Earl of Leicester (although Gaunt did not receive all of these titles until the death of Blanche's older sister, Maud, in 1362).

Blanche of Namur

As a wedding gift Blanche received the province of Tunsberg in Norway and Lödöse in Sweden as fiefs; Tunsberg was exchanged in 1353 to Bohus, Marstrand, Elvyssel, Ranerike and Borgsyssel.

Blanche on the Lam

Barbara Neely draws upon these societal oppressions to be the foundation of Blanche on the Lam.

"They view the stereotypical roles as their performance in a larger satire about misperception. They slip into and out of the Mammy and Uncle Tome stereotype as they see fit." "A cleansing construction: Blanche White as domestic heroine in Barbara Neely's Blanche on the Lam".

Bovis scale

Simoneton's scale was in turn developed into a "modern Bovis scale" by Swiss "geobiologist" and former Vaud cantonal parliament member Blanche Merz (1919–2002), who founded an Institut de recherches en géobiologie at Chardonne in 1979 and whose self-published books appeared from the 1980s.

Charles Gosse

On 11 May 1880 he married Mary Blanche Hawker (1858 – 10 December 1945), daughter of George Charles Hawker M.P.

Courmayeur

Courmayeur also shares access to the famous glacial ski run of the Vallee Blanche with another French town, Chamonix, which sits at the other side of the peak known as the Aiguille du Midi.

Cruse family

Other famous châteaux owned at some time by members of the Cruse family include Château la Dame Blanche, Château Haut-Bages-Libéral, Château Giscours, and Château Rauzan-Ségla.

Ebbert

Blanche Gould Ebbert was a renowned composer, pianist, and musician in Brooklyn; she was a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and the National Conservatory of Music in Manhattan.

France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970

At the final, Guy Bonnet won with "Marie-Blanche" over Daniel Beretta and Isabelle Aubret's "Olivier, Olivia".

Frances Cave-Browne-Cave

Frances Cave-Browne-Cave was the daughter of Sir Thomas Cave-Browne-Cave (1835–1924) (see Cave-Browne-Cave baronets for earlier history of the family) and Blanche Matilda Mary Ann Milton.

Frank Stephen Baldwin

Together they had seven children: Frank Pardee Baldwin (1873–1946) who was born in Philadelphia; Emma Virginia Baldwin (1877–1952) who was born in St. Louis, and worked as a librarian at the public library; Eugene Denniston Baldwin (1880–?) who was born in St. Louis, and worked as an insurance clerk; George Howard Baldwin (1890–1950); Lillian Isabel Baldwin (1886–1916); and Blanche Baker Baldwin (1891–1969) who was born in New Jersey, and worked as a clerk at the YMCA.

Guilhem de la Tor

The tor (tower, castle) that was Guilhem's birthplace does not survive, but it was in the vicinity of the modern town of La Tour-Blanche, Dordogne.

Henry Cave-Browne-Cave

Henry Cave-Browne-Cave was the son of Sir Thomas Cave-Browne-Cave (1835–1924) (see Cave-Browne-Cave baronets for earlier history of the family) and Blanche Matilda Mary Ann Milton.

Ilchester Nunnery

Ilchester Nunnery, in Ilchester, Somerset, England, was founded around 1217-1220 as the "White Hall Hospital of the Holy Trinity", (Latin: Alba Aula, French: Blanche Halle/Blanchesale) after the gift of a house and other property by William "The Dane" of Sock Dennis manor, Ilchester (Norman-French: Le Deneis etc., Latinised to Dacus (the adjectival form of Dacia being mediaeval Latin for Denmark) modernised to "Dennis").

Japanese minelayer Okinoshima

In January 1942, under the overall command of Admiral Sadamichi Kajioka, Okinoshima participated in "Operation R" (the invasion of Rabaul) landing Japanese troops at Blanche Bay, Rabaul on the night of 22/23 January 1942.

Jean Daive

His first book, Décimale blanche (Mercure de France, 1967) was translated into German by Paul Celan, and into English by Cid Corman.

Joan I

Joan I of Navarre (1271–1305), daughter of King Henry I of Navarre and Blanche of Artois

Lady Blanche Addle

Lady Blanche Addle was a fictitious character created by the British author Mary Dunn (1900–1958) First published in the 1930s Dunn's Lady Addle books amusingly parody and satirise the then British upper classes, and particularly the works of Walburga, Lady Paget; Daisy, Princess of Pless and Adeline, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre.

Les Halles

Part of the actual demolition of the site is featured in the 1974 film Touche pas à la femme blanche (Don't Touch the White Woman!), which iconoclastically restages General Custer's 'last stand' in a distinctly French context in and around the area.

Manor of North Molton

He is the son of Lt William Greville Worthington (d.1942), RNVR, by Lady (Mary) Diana Duncombe (1905–1943), daughter of Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham (d.1916) by Lady Mary Blanche Eva Greville (d.1964), daughter of Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick.

Margaret of Bohemia

Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary, daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Blanche of Valois, married Louis I of Hungary

Mia Slavenska

One of her most highly regarded roles was as a strongly dramatic Blanche DuBois in Valerie Bettis' modern choreography of A Streetcar Named Desire, premiered in Her Majesty's Theatre in Montreal in 1952.

Philip Wroughton

Wroughton was born at Ibstone, Buckinghamshire, the son of Philip Wroughton (1805-1862) of Woolley Park, Berkshire, and his wife Blanche Norris, daughter of John Norris of Hughenden House.

Piaggio P.108

Nonetheless, in Algeria they struck targets in Bône (now called Annaba), Algiers, Blinda, Philippeville (now called Skikda), Maison Blanche and Oran.

Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe

(Played by Laura Esterman, credited as "Blanche Blackwell" from Ruby 3 on)

Rudolf I of Bohemia

On May 25, 1300, King Albert I arranged his marriage with Blanche, daughter of King Philip III of France by his second wife Marie of Brabant.

Sonya Butt

On 28 May 1944, Sonya was parachuted into the department of the Sarthe in the area of Le Mans to work as a Courier, under the codename "Blanche".

Ten Mile Road Race

In 1968, the first female competitor ran in the Ten Mile Road Race: Frances Blanche of Marathon, Ontario.

Thomas George Coventry

He was born in London, the son of the Earl of Coventry and Lady Blanche Craven, and was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College in Camberley.

Thomas Hyde Page

His eldest daughter Mary Albinia (d. 1835) married Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, third baronet (1769–1847); their third daughter Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey married businessan William Gibbs, both becoming religious philanthropists and supporters of the Oxford Movement.

Toupie Lowther

The brothers Reginald and Hugh Laurence Doherty invited her to write a chapter entitled "Ladies' Play" for their book "Lawn Tennis" published 1903 and George Whiteside Hillyard 1864–1943, the All England Tennis Club Secretary for many years and husband to Blanche Hillyard in his book "Forty Years of First Class Tennis" (1924) was glowing in his appreciation.

Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller

Tryphosa believed she had a good singing voice and was encouraged by friends and relatives, eventually studying classical singing with several famous teachers, including Giovanni Sgambati, Blanche and Mathilde Marchesi, Sir George Henschel, B. T. Lang, as well as Veda, Bimboni, and Giraudet.

Viens l'oublier

It was the fifth song to be performed at the contest, following Yugoslavia's Eva Sršen with "Pridi, dala ti bom cvet" and preceding France's Guy Bonnet with "Marie-Blanche".

Vincent de Moor

"Carte Blanche" by Veracocha, a collaboration between de Moor and Ferry Corsten, reached #22 in the UK chart.

Walter Page

Walter Sylvester Page was born in Gallatin, Missouri on February 9, 1900 to parents Edward and Blanche Page.

War of the Succession of Champagne

Blanche then joined with Emperor Frederick II to besiege the castle of Amance.


see also

Rely, Pas-de-Calais

Many villages on or near this Brunehaut road have the same origins, such as Blessy, Estrée-Blanche, Ligny, Auchy-au-Bois and Ferfay.