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Fontaine-le-Bourg

Motor engineer Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (1856–1901), who, in February 1884, together with Léon Malandin, built and drove a motor car fitted with a 4 stroke internal combustion engine from here to Cailly.


Acionna

Acionna probably had her sanctuary at the Fontaine de l'Etuvée in the commune of Orléans, and remains of a Gallo-Roman temple and a section of an aqueduct were excavated in 2007.

Alain Marguerettaz

Alain Marguerettaz (born August 31, 1962 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice) is a French Paralympian who started in alpine skiing.

Alan Basil de Lastic

He was of mixed Burmese, Irish and French ancestry, with his grandparents on his father's side coming from Bourg-Lastic in France,

Andeolus

Septimius Severus, passing through that region, had him put to death; his head was stabbed with a gladius on May 1, 208, at Bergoiata, a Gallic settlement on a rocky peak over the Rhône River which would be later known as Bourg-Saint-Andéol.

Barbeau Abbey

The church of Fontaine-le-Port has preserved some 16th-century wooden sculptures from the abbey church, and a chapel in the same village is also said once to have been the abbey's.

Bourg-en-Bresse Cathedral

This church was previously the collegiate church of Notre-Dame-du-Bourg, which in 1992 was raised to the status of co-cathedral of the Diocese of Belley-Ars, as the bishop and diocesan administration of Belley, later Belley-Ars, had been resident in Bourg-en-Bresse since 1978.

Charles Saint-Yves

Saint-Yves was born in 1667 at Maubert-Fontaine (Ardennes, Northern France), out of a family affiliated to Marie de Guise, who called him and his elder brother (1660–1730) to Paris for becoming her pages.

Château de Petit-Bourg

One particularly noticed the cabinet in gallery of the appartement du roi (angle du pavillon du midi, à l'étage) and the grand salon, decorated by Louis-Claude Vassé with royal portraits and ducal emblems.

Chêne-Bourg

The pianist Dinu Lipatti is buried in the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine.

CINF

In 1968, CKVL abandoned its variety format in favour of a hybrid talk/music format, with weekday daytime programming being all-talk with a high proportion of open-line shows, including the famous Jacques Matti / Hélène Fontaine duo and former Liberal (and future Social Credit) politician Yvon Dupuis as morningman.

Comberanche-et-Épeluche

Surrounded by the towns of Bourg-du-Bost, Germans, and Petit-Bersac, Comberanche-and-Épeluche is located 37 km northwest of Perigueux.

Del Fontaine

Fontaine finished the year with two bouts in the U.S., a win over Joe Anderson followed by a points loss to Rocky Smith.

From this point, Fontaine attracted a better class of fighter, beginning with his first fight outside Canada, travelling to Philadelphia in a win over experienced American Bobby Marriott.

Delamare-Deboutteville

This vehicle travelled for the first time on the little road from Fontaine-le Bourg to Cailly, Normandy in early February 1884.

Didier Guillaume

In 2008, after his election as senator, he had resigned his post as major of the commune of Bourg-de-Peage, which is the chef-lieu of the canton of the same name, represented by Guillaume in the General Council.

Florence Delay

The daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and Jean Delay, Delay studied at the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then the Sorbonne.

Fontaine-de-Vaucluse

Fontaine-de-Vaucluse ("spring of Vaucluse") is built around a spring in a valley at the foot of the Vaucluse Mountains, between Saumane and Lagnes, not far from L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.

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.

Hector Sévin

He served as subdirector of the institute for the deaf and mute in Bourg from 1875 until 1876 then as Professor of dogmatic theology, Scriptures, and ecclesiastical history at the Seminary of Belley from 1876 until 1889 and was its rector from 1889 to 1891.

Hell-Bourg

They were soon being recommended for children, weak and anaemic adults, as well as people suffering from gastritis.

Henri Blanc-Fontaine

Blanc-Fontaine was also the pupil of Jean Achard (he made a portrait of him which it kept in the Musée de Grenoble) and Auguste Ravier in Charlieu.

Ivor Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne

He has also worked on tracks with French artists such as Jaques Higelin, M, Christophe, Bertrand Cantat, Arno, Alain Souchon, Philippe Katerine, and Emanuelle Seigner with Brigitte Fontaine.

Jacques-Melchior Villefranche

Jacques-Melchior Villefranche (b. at Couzon-sur-Saône, 17 December 1829; d. at Bourg, 10 May 1904) was a French editor, writer, and publicist working for Roman Catholic causes.

Jean Grenier

He filled notebooks with details of his relationships with Francine Camus, René Char, Louis Guilloux, Jean Giorno, André Malraux and Manès Sperber and with the editorial team of the Nouvelle Nouvelle Revue française, as well as his conversations with numerous contemporary artists who visited him at his home in Bourg-la-Reine.

Jean-Baptiste Robin

He continued composition studies with George Benjamin (King's College London) and organ studies with Louis Robilliard (Conservatoire de Lyon, Prix de Perfectionnement), Odile Bailleux (Conservatoire de Bourg-la-Reine, Prix de Perfectionnement), and Marie-Claire Alain (regional conservatory of Paris).

Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan

Jean-Bernard Gauthier was born in a family of jurists in Bourg-en-Bresse (now Ain département) of France.

Jerry Fontaine

Fontaine rejoined the Manitoba Liberal Party after the FPP's dissolution, and became a candidate for the party's leadership in 1998 following the resignation of Ginny Hasselfield.

Johann von Ravenstein

After capturing the notorious Chemin des Dames, he succeeded, with 10 soldiers, to capture the bridge over the Aisne at Bourg intact.

John Ablitt

# In the final phase of the war (4–11 November 1918), at the end of the 100 days advance, Ablitt maintained communications between forward parties of the advancing 15th Durham Light Infantry (64th Brigade), as far as Limont-Fontaine, and Brigade HQ at Berlaimont.

Joseph François Michaud

He was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg-en-Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the rest of his life.

Jura Mountains

Part of the A40 autoroute crosses through a spectacular portion of the southern Jura between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, which is known as the "Highway of the Titans."

Luc Jacquet

Luc Jacquet (5 December 1967 in Bourg-en-Bresse) is a French film director from Paris.

Ma Belle Marguerite

"Ma Belle Marguerite" is a song with music by Vivian Ellis and lyric by AP Herbert, which was a great success in the musical Bless the Bride, being sung by Georges Guétary, playing the part of French actor Pierre Fontaine.

Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory

The Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory is a volcano observatory in the village of Bourg-Murat on the Island of Réunion that monitors the large basaltic Piton de la Fournaise shield volcano.

Quintin Brand

He was then appointed commander of No. 151 Squadron RAF at Fontaine-sur-Maye in France, a night fighter squadron formed to combat German night raids over the Western Front.

Reggie Dupre

Dupre is also in the supermarket business as owner of the independent Bourg Supermarket in Bourg, Louisiana.

Richmond Fontaine

Underpinned by lead singer and songwriter Willy Vlautin's lyrics, Richmond Fontaine songs often evoke imagery of Reno, Nevada, Portland, the Western United States and Mexico while telling stories in a style that critics have compared to Raymond Carver.

RTRFM

Fly By Night (Transit Lounge): Andrew Ewing, Josh Fontaine, Felicity Groom, Andrew Ryan, Jeff Strong.

Salah Hamouri

Salah Hamouri was born on 25 April 1985 in Jerusalem to a French mother, Denise Hamouri-Guidoux, from Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain), who teaches French in Jerusalem, and from a Palestinian father, Hassan Hamouri, who manages a restaurant in Eastern Jerusalem.

San Martín National Institute

Plans were then drawn up for the reproduction of San Martín's erstwhile home in Le Grand-Bourg, France.

St Bernard Pass

Little St Bernard Pass lies between Mont Blanc and the Graian Alps, connecting Bourg St Maurice, France to Courmayeur, Italy

The Old Lady and the Pigeons

The team produced the film's first four minutes at the Folimage studios in Bourg-lès-Valence.

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Ida Gotkovsky, the third fable in her Hommage à Jean de La Fontaine for choir and orchestra, commissioned for the tercentenary of La Fontaine's death (1995)

Théophane Vénard

Théophane Vénard studied at the College of Doué-la-Fontaine, Montmorillon, Poitiers, and at the Paris Seminary for Foreign Missions which he entered as a sub-deacon.

Thomas Banastre

In 1360, he was fighting in France in the campaign led by Edward III, who also knighted at Bourg-la-Reine.

Union Sportive Romanaise et Péageoise

L’US romanaise and péageoise was founded in 1908 as the sport association of two town on both side of the Isère, Romans-sur-Isère and Bourg-of-Péage.

Vaucluse, New South Wales

Sir Henry Browne Hayes, an avid admirer of the 14th-century poet Petrarch, named the house after Petrarch's poem about the famous Fontaine de Vaucluse near the town L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in what is today the Department of Vaucluse in southern France.

William Fontaine

During the Truman and later McCarthy eras, Fontaine supported the presidential candidacy of socially liberal Republican governor Harold Stassen, who served as President of Penn from 1948 to 1953.


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