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5 unusual facts about Fère


Eddie Slovik

Slovik was buried in Plot "E" of Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial in Fère-en-Tardenois, alongside 95 American soldiers executed for rape and/or murder.

Fère-en-Tardenois

It contains the graves of 6,012 American soldiers who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I including the poet, Joyce Kilmer and, until 1987, Eddie Slovik, a deserter and the first American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War.

Fershampenuaz

Like several other Ural villages, among them Parizh (Paris) and Berlin, it was named to honor the feats of Cossacks in the war against Napoleon—in this case, a victorious battle of Fère-Champenoise that took place on March 25, 1814.

Gymnasium Wertingen

The school offered student exchanges with a school in Fère-en-Tardenois in France, with the Texas City High School and the Highland Park High School in Dallas, USA.

Paul Claudel

He was born in Villeneuve-sur-Fère (Aisne), into a family of farmers and government officials.


Algolagnia

In 1892, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing introduced the term algolagnia to describe "sexual" masochism, to differentiate it from Fere's earlier term called "algophilia"; Schrenck-Notzing's interpretation was that algolagnia involved lust, not love as Fere interpreted the phenomenon.

Ballad of the Goodly Fere

Charles Elkin Mathews expressed his concerns that readers would find Fere's humanization of Jesus offensive.

Enguerrand VI, Lord of Coucy

He was the son of his predecessor William, Lord of Coucy, Marle, Fère, Oisy and Mount-Mirel, who held the titles from 1321–1335.

Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy

He also gained the titles of 4th Lord Gynes: Sire d' Oisy, in the district of Marle and the Sire de La Fère.

Library of Friedrich Nietzsche

In his notebooks, Nietzsche copied several passages of Féré, later included, without quotation marks, in The Will to Power published by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Peter Gast.

Vladimir Vlasov

The collective is usually hypenated as Vlasov-Fere-Maldi'bayev, which also composed the Kirghiz national anthem.


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