The wealthy Genevan philanthropist Jean-Jacques de Sellon, who owned the property until 1839, gave accommodation at the castle to, amongst many others, such political refugees as Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte, Joséphine de Beauharnais, the Duke of Bassano, the Count Camille Cavour, Voltaire as well as to Franz Liszt and George Sand.
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Besançon Hugues (b. 1487 - d. 1532) was a member of the Grand Council of Geneva and participated in the rebellion against the rule of the Savoy dynasty, which led to the independence of Geneva in 1526.
The abbey was founded in 1119 by Hugues of Thil, lord of Champlemy, and his wife Alix of Montenoison as the first daughter house of Pontigny Abbey.
He succeeded his father in 940 with his brother Hugues d'Eguisheim.
A chapter in Hervé Le Tellier’s novel Enough About Love pays homage to Edouard Levé, who appears as the character Hugues Léger, and to his book Autoportrait, the introspective and fragmentary style of which is imitated in an extract of a book titled Definition.
1013: The Lordship of Francescas was given to the abbey of Saint-Pierre Condom by Hugues de Gascogne, Bishop of Agen in 1013, hereditary Dukes of Gascony.
Hugues de Chaunac has revealed many drivers with Oreca, most of them French, such as Jacques Laffite, Patrick Tambay, René Arnoux, Alain Prost or also Yannick Dalmas, Jean Alesi and Yvan Muller.
Hugues-Bernard Maret, 1st Duc de Bassano (1 May 1763 – 13 May 1839) was a French statesman and journalist.
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In 1804 he became Minister; in 1807 he was named count, and in 1809 he received the title of Duc de Bassano, one of the titles with the status of duché grand-fief in Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy, a rare hereditary honor (extinguished in 1906) which gives an insight into the respect his work had received from the emperor.
Jean-Hugues Ateba Bilayi (born 1 April 1981 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian football defender.
Marie of Savoy, Baroness of Faucigny (1298-1336), daughter of Amadeus V, Count of Savoy; wife of Hugues de La Tour du Pin, Baron de Faucigny
In 1827 Saint-Hugues was created as a village, later to be incorporated into the county of Bagot.