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14 unusual facts about Gironde


Aenor de Châtellerault

Aénor of Châtellerault (also known as Aénor de Rochefoucauld) duchess of Aquitaine (born c. 1103 in Châtellerault, died March 1130 in Talmont) was the mother of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who arguably became the most powerful woman in Europe of her generation.

Antoine Jay

He was mayor of Lagorce (1830–1848), conseiller général for the Gironde (1831–1837) and deputy for the Gironde (1815, 1831, 1834).

Blanquefort

Blanquefort, Gironde, an outlying commune of the Bordeaux agglomeration

Cardan

Cardan, Gironde, a commune of the Gironde département, in France

Ford C3 transmission

The Bordeaux Automatic Transmission Plant, in Blanquefort, France (in the Bordeaux metropolitan area) produces automatic transmissions for a variety of rear-wheel drive vehicles.

François Deluga

François Deluga (born 18 November 1956 in Cauderan, Bordeaux, Gironde) is a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the 8th constituency of Gironde.

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.

Gironde's 8th constituency

It was initially represented in the XIIIth legislature by Marie-Hélène des Esgaulx, of the Union for a Popular Movement, but was won by François Deluga of the Socialist Party in a byelection after des Esgaulx was elected to the Senate in 2008.

Jean Despujols

Jean Despujols (Salles en Gironde 19 March 1886-Shreveport, 1965) was a French, later naturalised American, painter.

Louis II de la Trémoille

During the course of his career, he earned the titles Vicomte de Thouars, Prince de Talmond, Comte de Guînes et de Bénon, Baron de Sully, de Craon, de Montagu, de Mauléon et de l'Ile-Bouchard, Seigneur des Iles de Ré, de Rochefort et de Marans, and Premier Chambellan du Roi.

Mamar Kassey

They came to attention in France after an appearance at the Festival des Nuits Atypiques in Langon in 1998.

N500 Naviplane

The N500 Naviplane was a French hovercraft built by SEDAM (Société d'Etude et de Développement des Aéroglisseurs Marins) in Pauillac, Gironde for the cross channel route.

:First flight on April 19, 1977 on the Gironde, demonstrating a speed of 40-45 knots (74–83 km/h).

Robert Graham Dunlop

In 1813, Lieutenant Dunlop, in command of HMS Porcupine, captured or destroyed a number of French craft which had run ashore near Talmont-sur-Gironde.


Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle

By a decree issued on 30 April 1793, the army was responsible for the defence of the coasts and areas between the estuaries of the Gironde and Loire and that of the right bank of the river to Ingrandes, against the threat of Britain.

Bacas

Bazas, a commune of the Gironde département, in southwestern France

Bazas Cathedral

Bazas Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Bazas) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in Bazas, Gironde.

Beaulac

Bernos-Beaulac is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Braud

Braud-et-Saint-Louis, commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France

Château Broustet

Belonging to the Sauternes appellation in Gironde, in the region of Graves, the winery is located in the commune of Barsac.

Château de Langoiran

The Château de Langoiran is located in the district of Bordeaux in Gironde, in Langoiran, Aquitaine, France.

Château Malromé

The Château Malromé is located in the commune Saint-André-du-Bois, in the French department of Gironde.

CroisiEurope

In France, CroisiEurope sail on the Seine, the Rhône, the Saône, the Gironde, the Meuse, and the Rhine; in Italy, on the Po; in Spain, on the Guadalquivir; in Portugal, on the Guadiana and the Douro; in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, on the Rhine; in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Romania, on the Danube; and in Germany, on the Havel and the Oder.

Demetae

Their origin is uncertain, however, a number of place names are similar to what were Celtic regions in what is now the Bordeaux region of France as Llanmadoc and Landes du Médoc, Gwynedd and Gironde, Demetae and Devèze, suggestive of Pre-Roman Celtic Northerly travels on the portside of the North Atlantic Current.

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.

Grande-Sauve Abbey

Grande-Sauve Abbey or Sauve-Majeure Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery near the present village of La Sauve in the department of the Gironde, in a region once heavily forested.

LGV Bordeaux–Toulouse

some opposition from the southern Gironde area and particularly the Captieux region, where residents feared the destruction of natural sites and felt that the upgrading of the existing line would make more sense.

Marouane Chamakh

In the 2010 regional elections, Chamakh was, surprisingly, listed as a candidate by the MoDem for the Gironde department in the Aquitaine region.

Peire de Ladils

He was from Bazas in the Gironde and he served as advocate for the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste.

Pierre-Denis, Comte de Peyronnet

He finally died on 2 January 1854 in the castle of Montferrand in Gironde.

Porges

Le Porge, commune in the Gironde department, Aquitaine, south-western France

Saintongeais dialect

Its area covers the entire department of Charente-Maritime (except the very north), the west and centre of the department of Charente, the northern department of Gironde with its Pays Gabaye and its enclaves around Saintonge, Monségur; also the Aunisien (south Vendée) and Saintongeais (south Deux-Sèvres) parts of the Marais Poitevin.

Tombé pour elle

In the lyrics he mentions two cities and an island of the Gironde department (Arcachon, Cap-Ferret, the Île aux Oiseaux), which he calls "my house, my Eiffel Tower ... my Tower of Babel, my light, my stronghold".