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unusual facts about Fontenay-le-Marmion


Tamworth Castle

The Marmion family, from Fontenay-le-Marmion, Normandy, held the castle for 6 generations from c.1100 - 1294.


Aleksandra Ekster

She was a book illustrator for the publishing company Flammarion in Paris from 1936 until her death in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses.

Archibald Constable

In 1805, jointly with Longman & Co., Constable published Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, and in 1807 Marmion.

Catherine Malabou

Malabou graduated from the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Fontenay-Saint-Cloud).

Cintheaux

It was built around 1150 by the Marmion family; Robert Marmion offered it in patronage to the Barbery Abbey, subject to the Bayeux diocese, in 1181.

École normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines

The ENS LSH had its origins in two Écoles normales supérieures that were founded in 1880 and 1882, located in Fontenay-aux-Roses (for female students) and Saint-Cloud (for male students), both near Paris.

Ellis Worth

He played Ardelio in the troupe's December 1631 production of Marmion's Holland's Leaguer.

Florestan I, Prince of Monaco

Florestine Gabrielle Antoinette Grimaldi, Princess of Monaco (Fontenay-aux-Roses, 2 October/22 October 1833 – Stuttgart, 4 April/24 April 1897), married in Monaco on 15 February 1863 as his second wife Wilhelm, 1st Duke of Urach, and was the mother of Wilhelm, who was a Presumptive Heir to the Throne of Monaco and reigned for a few months as King Mindaugas II of Lithuania.

Geneviève de Fontenay

Geneviève Suzanne Marie-Thérèse Mulmann (born August 30, 1932), known as Geneviève de Fontenay, is the former president of the Committees Miss France and Miss Europe.

Geneviève de Fontenay and her son Xavier Poirot have sold the brand "Miss France" to the group Endemol.

Georges Philippar

Georges Philippar, born on 16 October 1883 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, was a French shipbuilder.

Hallamshire Battalion

Twelve days after landing the Hallamshires were involved in the attack on Fontenay-le-Pesnel (Operation Martlet) against the 26th Panzer Grenadier Regiment.

Ilona Mitrecey

Ilona Mitrecey (born 1 September 1993 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine), more commonly known as Ilona, is a French singer.

Jean Mohamed Ben Abdejlil

Born into a family of Muslim notables of Fez, Mohamed Ben Abdejlil, who had made the Hajj to Mecca with his father, converted to Catholicism and was baptized in April 7, 1928 in the chapel of Franciscan college of Fontenay-sous-bois, taking the Christian name Jean, with sponsor of French orientalist Louis Massignon.

Jean-Martial Frédou

Born at Fontenay-Saint-Père, Frédou was attached to the Cabinet du Roi housed in the Hôtel de la Surintendance at Versailles, where he was commissioned to render duplicates of official portraits of the French royal family painted by Jean-Marc Nattier, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Louis-Michel Van Loo, Alexander Roslin or Joseph Siffred Duplessis.

Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre

Joan instead was married on 12 February 1352 to Charles the Bad, at Chateau du Vivier, close to Fontenay-Trésigny in Brie, Coutevroult.

Johann Eleazar Zeissig

Schenau copied the works of the old masters such as Antonio da Correggio, Guido Reni and Titian, and acquired the patronage of the Saxon ambassador, General Fontenay.

Katharine Jaffray

This is similar to the Lochinvar tale included in Sir Walter Scott's Marmion; indeed, in one variant, the hero is named Lochinvar.

Kieran Marmion

Marmion, who was born in Wales to Irish parents, cut his rugby teeth at Kirkham Grammar School, where he was part of their successful sevens team.

Ledbury Park

Developer H.A. Clark named a number of the new streets, such as Marmion, Deloraine, Melrose,and Falkirk after the works of Sir Walter Scott.

Nathaniel Torporley

For two or more years he resided in France, and was amanuensis to François Viète of Fontenay, against whom he published a pamphlet under the name of Poulterey.

Nicolas Rapin

He later became vice-senechel of Fontenay and Niort, and, in 1585, "lieutenant criminel" (both are officers of public justice) in the Île-de-France region.

Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia

Princess Irene Feodorovna (born 7 May 1934 in Fontenay, France); married 1st Biarritz 23 December 1955 (divorced 1959) Andre Jean Pelle (born Biarritz 29 November 1923); married 2d Le Pin 26 December 1962 (divorced) Victor-Marcel Soulas (born Saint-Méen-le-Grand 26 August 1938).

Queen's Champion

The current and 34th Queen's Champion and 33rd Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby, 7th Lord of the Manor of Telford, and of the Manor of Scrivelsby, Thornton and Dalderby, patron of the living of Scrivelsby-cum-Dalderby, and Queen's Champion is Lieutenant-Colonel John Lindley Marmion Dymoke, MBE DL Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.

Richard Heber

Sir Walter Scott, whose intimate friend he was, and who dedicated to him the sixth canto of Marmion, classed Heber's library as "superior to all others in the world"; Campbell described him as "the fiercest and strongest of all the bibliomaniacs."

Robert Marmion

Marmion was married twice, first, to Matilda de Beauchamp, by whom he had a son, Robert the Elder, and two daughters; secondly, to Philippa, by whom he had four sons; Robert the younger; William, who was dean of Tamworth; Geoffrey, who was ancestor of the Marmions of Checkendon, Stoke Marmion, and of Aynho, to which branch Shackerley Marmion the dramatist belonged; and lastly Phllip (died 1276).

Tamworth passed to Jane, daughter of Mazera Marmion, and wife of Baldwin de Freville, and Scrivelsby eventually passed with Margaret de Ludlow to Sir John Dymoke, in whose family it has since remained along with the title 'Champion of England'.

Rudolf Ernst

Rudolf Ernst (14 February 1854, Vienna - 1932, Fontenay-aux-Roses) was an Austro-French painter, printmaker and ceramics painter who is best known for his orientalist motifs.

Rym Amari

Ten years after the last sacred Miss Algeria, a jury headed by French Genevieve de Fontenay was elected, June 21, Rym Amari, 19, in Oran, western countries.Twenty candidates, mostly from Algiers which Rym Amari, marched in a room of the Hotel Meridien face more than 2000 spectators and jury which also included actor Smaïn, of Algerian origin.These young women appeared dressed in traditional clothing, city and evening.

Serafino Macchiati

Vittore Grubicy, and also Giacomo Balla hosted him at Fontenay in 1900, where he painted divisionist impressions of Paris and it surrounding.

Tamworth Castle

Robert died childless and so the castle passed to his brother Urse d'Abetot's daughters, one of whom, Matilida, married Robert de Marmion.

Tokamak de Fontenay aux Roses

The Tokamak de Fontenay-aux-Roses (TFR) was the first French tokamak, built in a research centre of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Fontenay-aux-Roses, a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France.

Tore Supra

Tore Supra is a French tokamak that began operating after the discontinuation of TFR (Tokamak of Fontenay-aux-Roses) and of Petula (in Grenoble).

Trio Fontenay

::Slightly prefers the Guarneri and Fontenay to the Borodin Trio in these works: "Deciding between three such intelligent and well-planned performances is not simple, nor even wholly realistic. For all my admiration of the Borodin, I think there is an ease and elegance in the performance by the Guarneri that is closer to Mendelssohn. The Fontenay are very similar in spirit to the Guarneri, with whom choice can safely rest, if choice there must be."

Valérie Bègue

On a previous occasion, Fontenay had obtained the temporary suspension of Miss France 2004, Lætitia Bléger, for much more suggestive pictures published in the French edition of Playboy magazine, as a Miss France winner is contractually obligated not to pose for controversial pictures for five years after winning the title and an entrant in the Miss France contest must state that she has never posed for nude or partially nude pictures beforehand.

Wolf Harden

With the Trio Fontenay, he has recorded piano trios by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Dvořák, Haydn, Ives and many others.


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