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8 unusual facts about Gennevilliers


Frédéric Kuhn

Frédéric Kuhn (born July 10, 1968 in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine) is a retired male hammer thrower from France, who competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Guy Lacour

He became a professor at the Ecole Nationale de Musique Edgar Varèse in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, France and in the same year was named Director of the Conservatoire Municipal de Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, France.

Institute for the History of Aluminium

Access to its specialised library and archives is open to researchers in the reading room of the IHA in Gennevilliers.

Juan José Mosalini

He works to spread knowledge about and teach the bandoneon in France and in 1999 founded the first bandoneon course in Europe at the conservatory of Gennevilliers.

Secqueville-Hoyau

Alfred Secqueville and Gaston Hoyau established their business at Gennevilliers in 1911 as a producer of aircraft engines and propellers.

Tracfort

Assembly took place at a manufacturing workshop, at Rue de Normandie 71 in Gennevilliers, ten minutes down down the road from Courbevoie.

William Brill

On the night of 29/30 May, Brill's was one of 27 aircraft detailed to bomb the Gnome et Rhône, Thomson Houston, and Goodrich factories in the Paris suburb of Gennevilliers.

Zoe Mendelson

Also in 2007, Mendelson received an Arts Council England Grant for the Arts to create a work called Scheherezade's Sideboard which has since been shown at Transition Gallery, London and Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers.


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