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unusual facts about Gare de Saint-Quentin


Gare de Caudry

Caudry was formerly connected by secondary lines with Saint-Quentin via Le Catelet, Cambrai, Denain via Quiévy and Saint-Aubert and Catillon via Le Quesnoy.


At San Quentin

At San Quentin is the 31st overall album by Johnny Cash, and a recording of a live concert given to the inmates of San Quentin State Prison.

Battle of St. Quentin

Battle of the Canal du Nord (September 1918), the French breaching of the Hindenburg line is sometimes called the "battle of Saint Quentin"

Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, attack at Mont St. Quentin near Péronne by the Australian Corps in August 1918

Bernard Vann

He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 29 September 1918 at Bellenglise and Lehaucourt, France, where he led his battalion across the Canal de Saint-Quentin through thick fog and under heavy fire.

Bullecourt 1917, Jean and Denise Letaille museum

In 2008, the Australian Department of Veterans Affairs wants to upgrade seven sites showing the Australian forces during the First World War (Ypres and Passchendaele in Belgium; Fromelles, Bullecourt, Mont-Saint-Quentin, Pozières and Villers-Bretonneux).

Charles Bernardy

From 1775 to 1780, the troop put on shows at Amiens, Cambrai, Strasbourg, Colmar, Paris (at the "théâtre des Petits Comédiens du Bois de Boulogne"), Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Toulon, Marseille, Dijon, Passy, Saint-Quentin, Antwerp and Brussels.

Chauny

The railway station in Chauny is part of the Paris - St Quentin - Maubeuge line, and is well serviced by Corail and TER trains towards Paris, Compiègne and Saint Quentin.

Christopher Bushell

On 23 March 1918 west of St. Quentin's Canal and north of Tergnier, France, Lieutenant Colonel Bushell personally led C Company of his battalion, who were cooperating with an Allied regiment in a counterattack.

D. Quentin Miller

Quentin Miller (born 1967) is a professor of the English language and literature at Suffolk University in Boston.

East Surrey Regiment

Most were present at the principal battles of 1917, such as Arras, the Scarpe and the Third Battle of Ypres, and in 1918 at St Quentin, Albert and Cambrai.

Édouard Pingret

He was born at Saint-Quentin, Aisne, the son of a middle-class family in a mainly agricultural region, but also home to the celebrated General Cambronne and to illustrious notaries and Normandy judges.

Gare de Montdidier

The station is located at kilometre point 100.155 on the partly abandoned single-track metre-gauge line between Saint-Just-en-Chaussée and Douai and at kilometre point 115.358 on the also partly abandoned line between Ormoy-Villers and Boves.

Gare de Saint-Denis-près-Martel

The station is also on the preserved railway of the Chemin de Fer Touristique du Haut Quercy (CFTHQ) which operates between Martel and Saint-Denis-lès-Martel, a distance of 7 km.

Gare du Tréport-Mers

Until 2 October 1938, Le Tréport-Mers was also connected to Dieppe by the Eu - Dieppe line; part of this closed line, between Saint-Quentin-au-Bosc and Eu, has since become a footpath, the chemin vert du Petit Caux (Petit Caux greenway).

Get Together with Andy Williams

# "Quentin's Theme (Shadows of the Night)" (Robert Cobert, Charles Randolph Grean) – 3:09

Grand Illusion Cinema

Over the years the cinema has been host to such people as Quentin Tarantino, Takeshi Miike, Alex Cox, Eddie Izzard, Stuart Gordon, Don Hertzfeldt, and the cast of Troll 2.

Gustave Biéler

The "rue du Commandant Guy Biéler" in Saint-Quentin was named for him and as one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, he is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département.

His operations were so successful that the Germans instituted a special manhunt to get him and his team and on 13 January 1944 the Gestapo arrested him and agent Yolande Beekman in the Café Moulin Brulé in Saint-Quentin.

Henri Quentin

Dom Henri Quentin was a French Benedictine monk, born 7 October 1872 at Saint-Thierry, died 4 February 1935 at Rome.

Hugo Pinell

On August 21, 1971, there was a prisoner uprising in Pinell's housing unit at San Quentin, led by George Jackson.

Inglorious Bastards

Inglourious Basterds, a 2009 American war film directed by Quentin Tarantino (who liked the title of Castellari's film, and included cameos of Castellari and his lead)

James Park Woods

On 18 September 1918, near Le Verguier, north-west of St. Quentin, France, Private Woods, with a weak patrol, attacked and captured a formidable enemy post consisting of four heavy and two light machineguns which, with two comrades, he held against heavy counterattacks.

Jarvis Jay Masters

He arrived at San Quentin in 1981 at the age of 19 convicted of armed robbery and was moved to death row in 1990 after being convicted of murder for his part in the killing of a prison guard.

Kahuna

Big Kahuna Burger, a fictional chain of Hawaiian-themed fast food restaurants that appears in the movies of Quentin Tarantino

Kassie DePaiva

DePaiva has been married to fellow One Life to Live actor James DePaiva since May 31, 1996 and gave birth to their son, James Quentin DePaiva, on May 12, 1997.

Lawrence Weathers

During the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, the 43rd Battalion was involved in fighting around the village of Allaines, near Mont St. Quentin, on 2 September 1918.

Lisa Rose Apramian

She had been studying the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, Gangaji and ex-convict, John Sherman and incorporating these teachings working with prisoners from consultations within San Quentin.

Ludwig Kübler

At the beginning of the First World War he was serving with the 15th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment "King Friedrich August of Saxony" at the Western Front and was involved in September 1914 fighting in Lorraine and around St Quentin as commander of a machine gun platoon.

Marquis de Champcenetz

Louis René Quentin de Richebourg, marquis de Champcenetz was governor of the Tuileries Palace at the time of the French Revolution.

Michael Laughlin

It also stars Warren Oates and Laurie Bird, and is purported to be Quentin Tarrantino's favourite film of all time.

Nicolas Goupillet

In any event the king was not too hard on Goupillet and awarded him a modest pension and a canonship at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.

Quentin Angus

Quentin Bryan Angus was born in Mount Pleasant, South Australia on 17 August 1987.

Quentin Chong

Quentin featured in various international television series and films such as Wake of Death, Death Race 2 and Number One Girl(2005) and featured alongside actors such as Jean-Claude Van Damme, Pat Morita and Vinny Jones.

Quentin Roosevelt

On July 14, 2008 on the 90th anniversary of Quentin's death, the villages of Saints, Mauperthuis and Touquin held a commemoration of Quentin Roosevelt.

Quentin Tod

Quentin Tod was born in Kent, England, son of Alexander Maxwell Tod, an Englishman, and his American wife Belle Perkins Tod, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Quentin Tod (27 December 1884 - 5 May 1947), sometimes credited as Quentin Todd, was a British actor, dancer, choreographer, television pioneer, and a devotee of Meher Baba.

Quentin Tod met the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba in London at the home of Helena Davy in 1931 and became a devoted follower for the remainder of his life.

Rockford, Hampshire

A chapel at Rockford, subject to the church of Ellingham, was granted by Walter of St Quentin, with the tithe from his house, to the abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte about 1170, and mass was to be said there three times a week by the chaplain of Ellingham or a monk.

Rubella Ballet

The band was formed by former Fatal Microbes Pete Fender (Dan Sansom, guitar), Gem Stone (Gemma Sansom, bass) and It (Quentin North, also bass), with vocalists Annie Anxiety and Womble, and drummer Sid Ation (born Sid Truelove, 18 April 1960, Sutton Coldfield, a former chef, later also the drummer with Flux of Pink Indians).

Saint Quentin

But, on the way, in a town named Augusta Veromanduorum (now Saint-Quentin, Aisne), Quentin miraculously escaped and again started his preaching.

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Every four years, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines serves as the start and finish point of the famous Paris–Brest–Paris bicycling endurance event.

Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick

Joseph Arthur Melanson, the largest settler and missionary in Saint-Quentin Parish, originally named Anderson Siding, launched a large program of colonization.

Steve Pavlovic

In 1998, upon receiving a demo tape from then unsigned Melbourne band Quentin's Brittle Bones (now known as The Avalanches), Pavolic founded the independent record label Modular Recordings.

The Valiant Years

Scriptwriters included Victor Wolfson a dramatist and writer, Quentin Reynolds, William L. Shirer an American journalist, war correspondent and historian, and Richard Tregaskis.

Voisins-le-Bretonneux

The closest station to Voisins-le-Bretonneux is Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines station on Paris RER line C, on the Transilien La Défense suburban rail line, and on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail line.


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