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9 unusual facts about Hyères


Barthélémy Victor Rantonnet

Barthélémy Victor Rantonnet (c1812-1872), gardener, horticulturalist and French nurseryman, a pioneer in the acclimatisation of plants on Côte d'Azur, and worked in the garden that Jean-Baptiste Fihle de Sainte-Anne had created in Hyères (Var).

Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit

Emmanuel-Charles Bénézit (1887-Hyères, 1975) was a French painter and art curator.

Grumman C-2 Greyhound

The two aircraft were stationed at Toulon-Hyères Airport, Hyères to assist in improving the flow of logistics and supplies to the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle operating in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya in support of the NATO intervention in Libya.

Horatio Powys-Keck

Born in Hyères, France, Powys-Keck's debut came for Oxford University Authentics on their tour of India in 1902-03; the team played three games (the only first-class matches they ever played) and Powys-Keck was chosen for the first of these, against Gentlemen of India at the Polo Ground, Delhi.

Jean-Paul Mauric

Jean-Paul Mauric (17 June 1933, Hyères, Var – 5 January 1971, Marseille) was a French singer, best known for his participation in the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest.

Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck

Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck (26 July 1787 – 12 December 1837, Hyères) was a German botanist and pharmacologist who was a native of Schloss Reichenberg in Reichelsheim (Odenwald).

Villiers II

The Villiers II entered service with Escadrille 5C1 based at Hyères near Toulon in Southern France in May 1927, with the aircraft never being operated from the Béarn.

Walter Krivitsky

Sedov died mysteriously in February 1938, but Krivitsky eluded attempts to kill or kidnap him while in France, including flight to Hyères.

William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton

He spent the winter and spring each year at Hyères because he and his wife both suffered from ill health.


Douceline of Digne

When her mother died around 1230, Douceline moved to Hyères with her father, probably to be closer to her brother Hugh who was a member of the town’s Franciscan monastery.

After a very pious childhood and teenage years which were devoted to the care of the poor and sick in her father’s house, she experienced a “conversion” at the age of 20 and, several years afterwards, took vows before her brother Hugh and established her first beguine community near the Roubaud River on the edge of the town of Hyères (c. 1241).

Fernando Echavarri

1st in the Tornado world ranking, 5th in the Rolex Miami, Miami Rolex, 3rd in the North American championship, 5th France Olympic Week (Hyères), Volvo Ocean Race in the Movistar, 4th in the Beneteau 25 World Championship Vigo, Royal Order Sportsmanship Merit, Olympic Medal of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Unión Fenosa Medal "best sailors of the Year", record holder of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Ranking (18 consecutive months), 1st Copa del Rey with Movistar.

HMS Viper

She was captured in 1793, but foundered in Hyères Bay later that year during the evacuation of Toulon.

Olivier Voutier

He retired to the city of Hyères in 1847, where he purchased the land of a former convent in the hills and constructed a villa called the Castel Sainte-Claire.

Souarata Cissé

Souarata Cissé (born January 16, 1986 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France) is a French basketball player who played for French Pro A league clubs Pau-Orthez, Paris, Rouen and Hyères-Toulon Var Basket.

Toulon–Hyères Airport

This airport is shared with the French Navy, as "la base d’aviation navale d'Hyères" (BAN d'Hyères).


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