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23 unusual facts about Joinville


André Deed

Deed finished his career working as a warehouseman at the Pathe film studios located in the Parisian suburb of Joinville-le-Pont.

Antoinette de Bourbon

She exhibited considerable administrative talent at domestic economy as well as in the running of the vast Guise dominions surrounding their chateau of Joinville.

Caxias Futebol Clube

Caxias Futebol Clube, commonly known as Caxias, is a Brazilian football team based in Joinville, Santa Catarina state.

Charles Joseph Tanret

Charles Joseph Tanret (9 August 1847, in Joinville, France – 10 July 1917, in Paris) was a French pharmacist and chemist.

Claude, Duke of Guise

Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise (20 October 1496, Château de Condé-sur-Moselle, – 12 April 1550, Château de Joinville) was a French aristocrat and general.

Fabio Perini S.p.A.

In the 1970s new offices are opened in Europe and America: two selling offices in Europe (Paris, 1974; Düsseldorf, 1976), one selling office in the USA (Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1978, at the Green Bay Engineering Company) and one manufacturing plant in Latin America (Joinville, Brazil, 1975).

François Devienne

Devienne was born in Joinville, Haute-Marne, as the youngest of fourteen children of a saddlemaker.

François Lespingola

François Lespingola (Joinville, 1644 - Paris, 16 July 1705) was a French sculptor in the team that provided original sculptures, vases and copies after the Antique for the gardens at Versailles.

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

In 1931, he collaborated on the flm score for Luces de Buenos Aires, shot in Joinville-le-Pont, France, and starring renowned tango vocalist Carlos Gardel.

Henri of Lorraine-Vaudémont

Henri of Lorraine-Vaudémont (died Joinville 20 October 1505) was bishop of Thérouanne, and then bishop of Metz from 1484 to 1505.

Hippomobile

In 1863 the Hippomobile with a hydrogen gas-fuelled one cylinder internal combustion engine made a test drive from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont, covering about eleven miles in less than three hours.

Ida Faubert

Ida Faubert (Christian first name Gertrude Florentine Félicitée Ida) ( born in Port-au-Prince on February 14, 1882 - dead in Joinville-le-Pont, 1969 ) was a Haitian writer, daughter of the former president of Haïti, Lysius Salomon.

Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport

13 September 1996: a Helisul Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante registration PT-WAV operating a cargo flight from Porto Alegre to Joinville collided with a hill and crashed during final approach to land at Joinville.

Joinville-le-Pont

In 1929, the commune of Joinville-le-Pont lost more than a third of its territory when the city of Paris annexed the Bois de Vincennes, a part of which belonged to Joinville-le-Pont.

Lobsang Tengye Geshe

In France for over thirty years, it applies tirelessly to transmit the benefits of various teachings of the Buddha Shakyamuni, he taught for many years in Buddhist Temple Linh Son of Joinville-le-Pont and for years at the Vajra yogini Institut in the Tarn where he currently resides.

Louis I, Cardinal of Guise

Louis de Lorraine (October 21, 1527, Joinville, Champagne – March 29, 1578, Paris) was the fourth son of Claude, Duke of Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon, and the younger brother of Charles of Guise, Cardinal of Lorraine, and Mary of Guise, queen consort of King James V of Scotland.

Louis Joseph, Duke of Guise

His body was carried to Joinville to be buried near his ancestors, and his heart was buried at the abbey of Montmartre.

Luc Viudès

His personal best throw was 19.84 metres, achieved in July 1986 in Joinville.

Mario Raskin

Raskin teaches harpsichord at the music school at Joinville-le-Pont.

Maurice de Féraudy

Maurice de Féraudy (born in Joinville-le-Pont on December 3, 1859 - died in Paris May 12, 1932) was a French songwriter and actor at the Comédie-Française.

Notícias do Dia

It publishes different editions for the cities of Florianópolis, Tijucas, Joinville, Palhoça, and Biguaçu.

Vesque Sisters

The Vesque Sisters were two French artist sisters, Marthe (1879 Joinville-le-Pont - 4 February 1949) and Juliette (1881 Paris - 4 December 1962), who, between 1900 and 1949, frequented Parisian circuses and documented circus life and performances in well-executed paintings.

White Birds Productions

White Birds Productions was based in the Paris suburb of Joinville-le-Pont (94) and employed 20 people.


Christian Mathias Schröder

Among other financial colonization activities, Schröder sent his son Eduard Schröder to become the first manager of the Dona Francisca colony (today city of Joinville).

Douglas Franco Teixeira

Born in Florianópolis, Douglas has played in Brazil, the Netherlands and Russia for Joinville, FC Twente and Dynamo Moscow.

Henri Joly

Born at Viomenil, Vosges in 1866, he was gymnastics instructor at the school of Joinville, where Marey and Demenÿ came to make films.

Joinville Esporte Clube

Joinville's largest win was on October 31, 1976, when the club beat Ipiranga of Tangará 11-1 at Estádio Municipal de Tangará.

Joinville Island

Joinville Island was discovered and charted roughly during 1838 by a French expedition commanded by Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named it for Prince François, Prince of Joinville (1818–1900), the third son of Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans.

Maurice Lévy

A trial system was installed between Joinville-le-Pont and Saint-Maurice; it consisted of an endless cable which was kept in motion by powerful steam-engines and to which boats were attached and thus kept at a speed of four kilometers an hour.