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Gometz-la-Ville

An experimental Aérotrain was built, from Gometz-le-Châtel to Rambouillet, for test, from 1966 to 1977, from a creation of Jean Bertin (train engineer).


Aire-sur-la-Lys

The architect, Pierre Framery was inspired by the former Hotel de Ville at Amsterdam.

Andoany

Andoany, formerly and more commonly known as Hell-Ville (after Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell), is a city in Diana Region, Madagascar with a population of 30,000.

Bonaventure Kalou

Bonaventure "Barry" Kalou (born 12 January 1978 in Oumé) is an Ivorian football player who plays as an attacking midfielder for Combs-la-Ville.

Bruce Zimmerman

Among the television series which Zimmerman has worked on are Desperate Housewives, CSI: NY, K-Ville, The District, Judging Amy, Reunion, So Weird, and Street Time.

Buffet Crampon

In 1850, Buffet Crampon established its headquarters at Mantes-la-Ville.

Canton of Marseille-Verduron

It is composed of the part of the 15th arrondissement of Marseille situated north of a line composed of the following streets: chemin du Littoral, traverse Santi, rue Séverine (excluded), chemin de la Madrague-Ville and chemin de Saint-Louis-au-Rove until it meets traverse de l'Aqueduc.

Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul

It is situated in the Place de l'Indépendence in the Ville Nouvelle, a crossroads between Avenue Habib Bourguiba and Avenue de France, opposite the French embassy.

Château d'Azay-le-Ferron

The first château was constructed by Prégent Frotier in the late 15th century, on land which had belonged to Nicolas Turpin de Crissé in the 13th century, then became part of the barronie of Preuilly in 1412.

Chöre für Doris

On this same programme, on 22 October 1971 at the Théâtre de Ville in Paris, Marcel Couraud's chamber choir sang the Chöre für Doris for the first time, together with the contemporaneous Chorale ("Wer uns trug mit Schmerzen") (Kurtz 1992, 184).

Clairvaux Abbey

Clairvaux Abbey (Clara Vallis in Latin) is a Cistercian monastery in Ville-sous-la-Ferté, 15 km from Bar-sur-Aube, in the Aube département in northeastern France.

Col Agnel

From Château-Queyras (France), the climb is 20.5 km long at an average gradient of 6.6%.

Dollar, Clackmannanshire

Dollar is twinned with the French town of La Ville Aux Dames, which lies just outside Tours in the Loire Valley.

Expressions Art Gallery

The gallery later relocated to larger new premises down the hill of Montagne Noire in Petion-Ville.

Fédération Internationale de Boules

FIB was founded in Ville-la-Grand (France) on April 14, 1946, and the first official international competition took place the next year.

Fort Pointe-aux-Trembles

Fort Pointe-aux-Trembles was built around 1670 on the Island of Montreal in order to defend this part of the island which also included Ville-Marie.

François Guillaume

François Guillaume (born on October 19, 1932 in Ville-en-Vermois) is a French politician.

Frédéric Iriarte

1995 "Irrealism" with texts by Catherine Huber (intenedent at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris), Ilmar Laaban (poet, writer, art critic) and Lars Kollberg art critic / chief editor of Konsttidningen .

Gare de Calais-Fréthun

The TGV stops here on journeys from Lille-Europe to Calais, Boulogne and Rang-du-Fliers-Verton.

Gare de Dijon-Porte-Neuve

Gare de Dijon-Porte-Neuve is located at kilometre post 321.935 on the "Dijon-Ville – Is-sur-Tille Line".

Gare de Nice-Ville

The station was completed in 1867 for CF du PLM and by architect Louis Bouchot in Louis XIII style.

Georges Guibourg

Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.

Greenville, Ohio

Greenville is the historic location of Fort Greene Ville, a pioneer fort built under General Anthony Wayne's command.

Henry Avray Tipping

He was born in the Château de Ville-d'Avray near Versailles, while his parents were living in France before moving into Brasted Place in Kent, where he grew up.

Hôtel de Ville, Paris

The Paris Commune chose the Hôtel de Ville as its headquarters, and as anti-Commune troops approached the building, Communards set fire to the Hôtel de Ville destroying almost all extant public records from the French Revolutionary period.

James De Ville

De Ville examined an enormous number of heads including those of many well-known figures including John Elliotson, Hermann Prince of Pückler-Muskau, Harriet Martineau, Charles Bray, George Eliot, William Blake, Richard Dale Owen, Richard Carlile, the Duke of Wellington and Prince Albert.

Jean de La Ville de Mirmont

Jean de La Ville de Mirmont (2 December 1886 – 28 November 1914) was a French poet who died at the age of 27 defending his country during World War I, at Verneuil.

Juliana of Liège

Aided by Abbess Imene, who was the sister of Archbishop Conrad of Cologne, Juliana took up residence at the Cistercian Abbey of Salzinnes, and finally Fosses-la-Ville, in the County of Namur, where she lived in seclusion until her death.

Kołbacz Abbey

It was itself a subsidiary of Clairvaux Abbey, Ville-sous-la-Ferté, although the funding monks originally arrived from the Danish Esrum Abbey in Zealand.

La Ville dont le prince est un enfant

The Fire that Consumes, a 1977 English language adaptation of the original French play La Ville dont le prince est un enfant;;

Leon Cooke

He appeared as Tadzio in the English National Opera's production of Death in Venice at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and two gala shows at the Grande Théâtre de la Ville, in Luxembourg between December 2008 and February 2009.

Mark Anthony Carpio

At the 2006 Florilege Vocal de Tours in Tours, France, he again led the choir in winning two First Places in the Mixed Vocal Ensemble Category and Free Program Category, the Prize of University Francois Rabelais (Renaissance Program) and the Grand Prix de la Ville de Tours (making them eligible for the 2007 European Grand Prix for Choral Singing in Arezzo, Italy).

Marston, Maryland

Marston is a small "ville" in Carroll County, Maryland situated at the three-way crossroads of Maryland Route 407 and Marston Road; it is at this point that Marston Road is divided into North and South.

Miss Haiti Universe

Magali Febles and Nadia Pressage (of Pressage PR) organized and coordinated the 2011 pageant which took place in the Karibe Convention Center in Pétion-Ville, Haiti.

Oceanographic Museum

The Oceanographic Museum (Musée océanographique) is a museum of marine sciences in Monaco-Ville, Monaco.

Pierre Mainville

In September 2007, Ville-Marie borough mayor Benoît Labonté and councillor Karim Boulos resigned from Tremblay's party to sit as independents.

Rock of Monaco

Today, the Rock is in the oldest of Monaco's four quarters, Monaco-Ville, which is also the location of Old Town, the oldest part of the city.

Roesel's bush-cricket

It was first reported in Montreal and Ville St. Laurent by Urqhart and Baudry (1953) in Canada.

Skip Schoolnik

Schoolnik most recently worked as post production producer on K-Ville, which aired on Fox, as associate producer on The Walking Dead, which airs on AMC, and as associate producer on the BBC/Starz show Torchwood in the fourth series, Miracle Day.

Stade Sous-Ville

Stade Sous-Ville is a football stadium in Baulmes, Switzerland.

Stephen Shank

In July 2011, he will be directing the stage world premiere of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose in the ruins of the Cistercian Abbey of Villers-la-Ville, Belgium.

Syndicat des Cols Bleus de la Ville de Laval

The Syndicat des Cols Bleus de la Ville de Laval is a trade union representing blue-collar workers in Laval, Quebec, Canada.

Time reversal signal processing

A notable researcher is Mathias Fink of École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris.

Top Ville

On 7 October, Top Ville (and Kamaridaan) started the 23/4 second favourite for the 58th running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Transnational Law and Business University

Transnational Law and Business University (TLBU) is a post-graduate university located in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea (20 km from Seoul), with a branch in Orry-la-Ville near Paris and a branch in construction in Maryland, USA.

Transport in Rhône-Alpes

Saint-Priest - Hôtel de Ville (transfers: Bus 50 - 53 - 54 - 62 - 94 - Zi1)

Ville Platte, Louisiana

Ville Platte is also the home of Chicot State Park, which is Louisiana’s largest state park, visited by thousands of people from all parts of the U.S.

Yvonne Cartier

She also assisted Georges Wilson for his staging of Grandeur et Décadence de la Ville de Mahagonny.


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