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52 unusual facts about Garonne


Achille Emaná

The following year, at only 19, he became an important first-team unit for the Ligue 2 club, never playing in less than 32 games in his first four seasons combined and helping the Haute-Garonne side achieve promotion to Ligue 1 in his second year.

Albert Guérisse

He smuggled a German uniform to Garrow in his cell in Mauzac concentration camp which helped Garrow's escape on 6 December 1941.

Ambrus

Ambrus, Lot-et-Garonne, a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in France

Antoine de Castelnau

Antoine de Castelnau was the son of Louis de Castelnau, baron of Castelnau, Miremont, Buanes and Bats,(1460–before 1529), and Susanne de Gramont (died after 1525).

Armagnac-Ténarèze

This area lies between Bas-Armagnac and Haut-Armagnac, covering the northwestern part of the department of Gers and the southern part of Lot-et-Garonne.

Battle of Auberoche

Derby used this opportunity to seize more towns in the region including Montségur and conduct successful sieges against La Réole and Aiguillon, placing the region firmly in English hands.

Bertran de Paris de Roergue

The Hungarian scholar István Frank hypothesised that Bertran hailed from Parisot and re-classified his work as a sirventes.

Caraman

Caraman, Haute-Garonne, a commune in the Haute-Garonne department, France

Caubiac Treasure

According to handwritten records kept at the Academy of Toulouse, the treasure was actually found at the nearby village of Thil.

Caylus

The goal of Caylus is to amass the most prestige points by constructing buildings and by working on the castle of Caylus in medieval France.

Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes

Charles d'Albert, Duke of Luynes (5 August 1578 – Longueville, 15 December 1621), was a favourite of Louis XIII who was made a Peer of France and Constable of France before dying at the height of his influence.

Château de Vieillevigne

The Château de Vieillevigne is a castle and stately home in the commune of Vieillevigne in the Haute-Garonne département of France.

David Whitworth

Outside of the championship, Whitworth won the 350 cc race at the French Grand Prix in Saint-Gaudens.

Dryopithecus fontani

Dryopithecus fontani is an extinct ape that was first discovered in Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne, France, in the 19th century, and was dated to the middle Miocene.

Duras, Lot-et-Garonne

David Hume of Godscroft (1558-1629), Scottish historian and philosopher, was the pastor in Duras 1604-1614.

The writer Marguerite Donnadieu (1914–1996) took the pseudonym "Marguerite Duras" in 1943, after this village, where her father's house was located.

Floodplain restoration

Early floodplain restoration schemes were undertaken in the mid-1990s in the Rheinvorland-Süd on the Upper Rhine, the Bourret on the Garonne, and as part of the Long Eau project in England.

Flourens

Flourens, Haute-Garonne, a commune of France, in the Haute-Garonne département

France Bleu Toulouse

The station broadcasts in the Haute-Garonne department on 90.5 MHz from Toulouse, the station is part of Radio France.

Garonne

Despite the lack of universal agreement upon definition for determining a stream's source, the United States Geological Survey, the National Geographic Society, and the Smithsonian Institution agree that a stream's source should be considered as the most distant point (along watercourses from the river mouth) in the drainage basin from which water runs.

French minister Freycinet ordered that all major canals used for long distance transport be suitable for vessels of those standard dimensions.

German submarine U-547

U-547 was damaged by a mine on 13 August 1944 in the Gironde (where the mouths of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers merge), near Pauillac in western France; she then retraced part of the route of her first patrol, arriving at Marviken in Kristiansand on 29 September and moving on to Flensburg on 4 October.

Grandselve Abbey

Grandselve Abbey (Abbaye de Notre Dame de Grandselve) was a Cistercian monastery in south-west France, at Bouillac, Tarn-et-Garonne.

Great Hucklow

The village is twinned with Parisot, Tarn-et-Garonne which is a rural village of similar size in the south west of France.

Haut-Armagnac

It includes the eastern part of the department of Gers and a small part of Lot-et-Garonne.

Ian Garrow

Garrow was arrested by Vichy French police in October 1941 and later interned at Mauzac (Dordogne).

Jean Parisot de Valette

Fra' Jean Parisot de La Valette (4 February 1495?, Parisot, Rouergue – 21 August 1568, Malta) was a French nobleman and 49th Grand Master of the Order of Malta, from 1557 to 1568.

Jean-Ernest Ducos de La Hitte

Jean Ernest Ducos de La Hitte, Viscount, was born on 5 September 1789 in Bessières (Haute-Garonne), and died on 22 September 1878 in Gragnague (Haute-Garonne).

Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan

At the same time, lands were purchased at Pompignan (some 20 km to the southwest of Montauban) to provide a convenient rural retreat.

He built a neo-classical chateau at Pompignan, and over a period of thirty-five years created one of the earliest and most extensive parcs à fabriques (or French landscape garden).

Jean-Vital Jammes

Ismaël was born Jean-Vital Jammes, the son of an illiterate tailor in Le Passage near the town of Agen.

La Reunion

La Réunion, Lot-et-Garonne, a town in the Lot-et-Garonne department of France

Lannes

Lannes, Lot-et-Garonne, a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne département, in France

Lavergne

Lavergne, Lot-et-Garonne, a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in France

Leuciscus burdigalensis

It is recorded both from Atlantic and Mediterranean drainages - from Loire to Garonne, and from Tech to Aude, respectively.

Leuciscus oxyrrhis

The long-snout dace (Leuciscus oxyrrhis) is a putative species of cyprinid fish, found in the Garonne drainage in France.

Lourde

Lourde, Haute-Garonne, a commune in the Haute Garonne department, France

M.L. Snowden

Her father, sculptor George Holburn Snowden, was mentored by Swiss sculptor Robert Georges Eberhard, a contemporary of Daniel Chester French and Saint Gaudens and a professional in the Rodin studios at the turn of the 19th century.

Mauzac

Mauzac, Haute-Garonne, a commune of the Haute-Garonne département in France

Minuscule 445

It once belonged to the Jesuit's Colleague, in Augen, on the Garonne.

Philippe de Vitry

In addition to all this, he was a diplomat and a soldier, known to have served at the siege of Aiguillon in 1346.

Plagne

Plagne, Haute-Garonne, a French commune in the Haute-Garonne department

Polastron

Polastron, Haute-Garonne, a commune in the Haute-Garonne département, in France

Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford

Further battles included the battle of Auberoche, the siege of Aiguillon, from where he escaped prior to its lifting, a raid on Barfleur and the English victory at the Battle of Crecy, on 26 August 1346.

Raymond of Fitero

His birthplace is unknown; Saint-Gaudens (France), Tarazona (Aragon), and Barcelona (Catalonia) have all been proposed as the place of his birth.

Saint-Alban Omnisport

They are based in the town of Saint-Alban, Haute-Garonne and their home stadium is the Stade Marius Coudon.

Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne

The Open International Féminin Midi-Pyrénées Saint-Gaudens Comminges, an ITF Women's Circuit tennis tournament, is held in Saint-Gaudens.

Sixte

Saint-Sixte, Lot-et-Garonne, commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in southwestern France

Sode

Sode, Haute-Garonne, a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in France

Taillebourg

Taillebourg, Lot-et-Garonne, a French commune of the Lot-et-Garonne department

Varen

Varen, Tarn-et-Garonne, a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, France

William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros

He was knighted by the Black Prince in 1346, having helped raise the siege of Aiguillon.


2010–11 Rugby Pro D2 season

Carcassonne and Saint-Étienne, last year's Fédérale 1 two finalists, gained promotion to Pro D2 for the first time in their history, whilst Agen and La Rochelle, respectively champions and promotion play-offs winners, were promoted to the Top 14.

Canton of Montauban-3

The Canton of Montauban-3 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-6

The Canton of Montauban-6 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Caraman

Saint-Félix-de-Caraman, the old name of Saint-Félix-Lauragais, a commune in the Haute-Garonne department, France

Caubiac

It is now part of the British Museum's collection and was actually found in the nearby village of Thil.

Château de Bonaguil

Château de Bonaguil is a castle in the French commune of Saint-Front-sur-Lémance, but actually owned by the neighbouring commune of Fumel in the Lot-et-Garonne département.

Château de Villefranche

The Château de Villefranche is a castle and stately home in the commune of Villeneuve-lès-Bouloc in the Haute-Garonne département of France.

December 1981 windstorm

In France, the storm caused widespread flooding in the south west, causing considerable damage in the river basins of the Garonne and Adour and flooding the city of Bordeaux.

French Senate election, 2008

They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

Golfech Nuclear Power Plant

The Golfech Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne), on the border of Garonne between Agen (30 km downstream) and Toulouse (90 km upstream) on the Garonne River, from where it gets cooling water, and approximately 40 km west of Montauban.

Jean-Baptiste Mailhe

Re-elected in September 1792 as Member of Parliament for the Haute-Garonne in the National Convention, he sat with La Plaine, remaining close to the Girondists.

La Va Bon Train

The La Va Bon Train ("goes like blazes" in French) was a French automobile manufactured by Larroumet and Lagarde of Agen, Lot-et-Garonne between 1904 and 1914.

Rigole de la montagne

The original plan was to take water from the Sor River at Revel via the rigole de la plaine and transport it to the Bassin de Naurouze to provide a source of water for the canal.

Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val

Legend recounts that angels then descended from Heaven to collect the pieces and place them in a boat which, miraculously, floated downstream into the Garonne and on to where the Tarn flows into it; then up the Tarn to its confluence with the Aveyron and up through the Vallis Nobilis of the Aveyron Gorges to the confluence of the little Bonnette river at a point where the ancient lands and bishroprics of Rouergue, the Albigeois, and Quercy meet.

Spain men's national ice hockey team

Spain won their first international game against Belgium in the Challenge de Haute–Garonne tournament held in Bagnères-de-Luchon, France.

Vincent Baron

He was born at Martres, in the département of the Haute-Garonne, France, 17 May 1604, and died in Paris on 21 January 1674.