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Haut-Armagnac

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


Alsace-Lorraine Regional Party

In Haut-Rhin, the party was supported by the newspaper Elsäßer Kurier whilst in Bas-Rhin it was supported by Unterländer-Kurier.

Andreas Räss

André Raess (German: Andreas Räss) (6 April 1794, Sigolsheim, Haut-Rhin - 17 November 1887, Strasbourg) was an Alsatian Catholic Bishop of Strasbourg.

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.

Castles of Dahn

A similar arrangement of two or three castles clustered closely together may be found in several places in the south part of neighbouring Alsatian Vosges: the Dreistein at Odilienberg near Obernai, the three castles on the Schlossberg near Reinhardsmunster, the Drei Exen near Eguisheim and the castle group of Haut-Kœnigsbourg/Oedenburg.

Cécile Kyenge

Kyenge was born in Kambove (Haut-Katanga District) in the Democratic Republic of Congo on 28 August 1964.

Corseul

Some 1.5 kilometres to the southwest, at Haut-Bécherel, stand the prominent remains of an extensive Roman temple sanctuary, built at the time of Nero and Vespasian.

Counts of Comminges

1462–1472 : Jean de Lescun (illegitimate son of Arnaud-Guillaume of Lescun, bishop of Aire, and of Anne of Armagnac, born ? – died 1472, known as the Bastard of Armagnac, Marshal of France)

Edme Quenedey des Ricets

Edme Quenedey des Ricets (sometimes Edmé Quenedey) (born Riceys-le-Haut, December 17, 1756 - died Paris, February 16, 1830) was a French painter and engraver, known most especially for his miniatures.

Édouard Corbière

The Corbière family originated in Valès, a hamlet in the Haut-Languedoc (now part of the commune iof Le Bez, to the east of Castres, in the Tarn département).

Étrœungt

Étrœungt is bordered by ten other communes, including two from Aisne department: Avesnelles, Boulogne-sur-Helpe, Féron, Floyon, Haut-Lieu, La Flamengrie (Aisne), Larouillies, Rainsars, Rocquigny (Aisne), Sémeries.

Floc

Floc de Gascogne, a sweet apéritif made from a blend of grape juice and Armagnac

Florimont

The site of Florimont has been occupied since the Roman period, probably by a lookout tower charged with supervising the movement of troops on their way connecting Mandeure in Doubs to Augst and Kembs in Haut-Rhin.

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.

Georges d'Armagnac

The papal city of Avignon remained faithful in the bloody Wars of Religion that had broken out in earnest in 1562, but in the surrounding Venaissin the Huguenots were solidly implanted in Orange and the neighboring Dauphiné, and fierce fighting ensued.

Gers

A horse race at the Auteuil Hippodrome has been named after André Boingnères, a notable local race-horse owner and the successful mayor of Termes-d'Armagnac between 1951 and 1976.

Haut de la Garenne

In March 2008, BBC television personality Jimmy Savile started legal proceedings against The Sun newspaper which had, wrongly he claimed, linked him in several articles to the child abuse scandal at Haut.

Haut-Folin

There is a 40 km of cross-country skiing ski resort.

Haut-Intyamon

The municipality is located in the upper Intyamon valley, and the Lake Lessoc storage tank on the Saan river is located in the municipality.

Haut-Katanga District

The copper mining centers of Lubumbashi and Likasi are surrounded by the district but are administratively separate.

Jean Bosco Mwenda

Bosco was born in 1930 at Bunkeya, a village near Likasi (then called Jadotville), Haut-Katanga District in then Belgian Congo, but lived most of his life in Lubumbashi, where in addition to playing music he had a job in a bank and with the local mining company, managed other bands, and owned a hotel on the Zambian border.

Jean d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours

He was succeeded by his brother Louis, Count of Guise.

In 1489, he traded the viscounties of Carlat and Murat to Peter II, Duke of Bourbon for the county of l'Isle-Jourdain.

Jean-François Rewbell

During the session of the Legislative Assembly, after the Constituent Assembly was dissolved in September of that year, he exercised the functions of procureur syndic, and was subsequently secretary-general of the département of Haut-Rhin.

Jean-Marie Neff

Jean-Marie Neff (born September 29, 1961 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin) is a retired male race walker from France, who competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Johann Konrad von Reinach-Hirtzbach

Johann Konrad von Reinach-Hirtzbach was born in Michelbach-le-Haut on August 28, 1657, the son of Hans Diebold Freiherr von Reinach-Hirtzbach (d. 1702) and his wife Anna Maria Eva von Freiin von Reinach-Steinbrunnborn (d. 1702).

Laurent de Premierfait

There is a possibility however that he was murdered in the struggles of the Armagnac and Bourguignon political factions which had followed the Battle of Agincourt of 1415 and divided France.

Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours

Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours (1472, Normandy; April 28, 1503, Cerignola, Italy), known for most of his life as the Count of Guise, was the third son of Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours and Louise of Anjou.

Makombo massacre

The Makombo massacre was an incident that took place from 14 to 17 December 2009 in the Haut-Uele District of Democratic Republic of the Congo in the village and region of Makombo.

Martin Earley

The highlight of his career was a stage win in the 1989 Tour de France when he broke clear of three riders 750m from the end of 157 km from Labastide-d'Armagnac to Pau.

Mbama people

The Obamba are an ethnic group located largely in Gabon's Haut-Ogooué Province.

Medal for civilian prisoners, deportees and hostages of the 1914-1918 Great War

The Medal for civilian prisoners, deportees and hostages of the 1914-1918 Great War was awarded to the inhabitants of all the regions invaded by the enemy, including those from the Upper-Rhine, Lower-Rhine and Moselle regions, deported civilian prisoners, brought as hostages or interned in concentration camps.

Mont Mouchet

Near to the summit of Mont Mouchet in the commune of Auvers, is memorial to the resistance alongside a museum of the Haut Gévaudan maquisards.

Orangutans in popular culture

Melincourt (first published 1817) by the English author Thomas Love Peacock has an orangutan called Sir Oran Haut-Ton, who is put forward as a candidate for election as a member of parliament.

Pascal Elbé

Pascal Elbe was born in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France, to a family of middle-class Jewish immigrants from Algeria.

Pierre Gros

Among his best known works are his collaborative volume, with Mario Torelli, Storia dell'urbanistica: il mondo romano (Laterza, 1988) and his two-volume treatise on Roman architecture, L'architectue Romaine Du début du IIIème siècle avant J.-C. à la fin du Haut-Empire vol. 1 Les monuments publics; vol. 2 2. maisons, palais, villas et tombeaux (Picard, 1996–2001).

Porrentruy

In 1800, this department was incorporated into the Département du Haut-Rhin as a sub-département.

Route des Crêtes

With effect from 1 May 2012, a speed limit of 70 km/h was introduced on the sections of the road in the Haut-Rhin department, between the Col des Bagenelles and Uffholtz (near Cernay).

Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine

Similarly, John Berger, the English Booker prize winning writer, makes his home in nearby Quincy, Haut Savoie, which also figures in his works.

Sickert

Sickert, Haut-Rhin, commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France

Sundiata Keita

Delafosse, Maurice Haut-Sénégal-Niger: Le Pays, les Peuples, les Langues; l'Histoire; les Civilizations. vols.

Timeline of Serer history

Delafosse, Maurice, "Haut-Sénégal-Niger: Le Pays, les Peuples, les Langues"; "l'Histoire"; "les Civilizations".

Walter Haut

By this time, Haut, along with Max Littell and Glenn Dennis had opened the International UFO Museum and Research Center.

Wamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wamba Territory, an administrative area of the Haut-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wamba, Haut-Uele District, a town in the Haut-Uele District of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wildenstein Castle

Château de Wildenstein, ruined castle in the Alsace region of France, situated in the commune of Kruth in the Haut-Rhin département


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