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unusual facts about Henry Browne Hayes


Henry Browne Hayes

In 1803 he purchased a property near the city and called it Vaucluse.



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Vaucluse, New South Wales

Sir Henry Browne Hayes, an avid admirer of the 14th-century poet Petrarch, named the house after Petrarch's poem about the famous Fontaine de Vaucluse near the town L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in what is today the Department of Vaucluse in southern France.