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6 unusual facts about La Barre


Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre

He was son of Pierre Chabanceau de La Barre (1592–1656) organist of the chapelle royale at Notre-Dame, sieur of La Barre, and younger brother of Charles-Henry Chabanceau de La Barre (1625-?), player of the spinet to the queen, and Anne Chabanceau de La Barre (1628–1688), a noted soprano.

La Barré

Michel de la Barre was a French musician, renowned as the most talented German flute player of his time.

Translation: The crescent is associated with Faith and Hope.

It was not until the early Middle Ages that surnames were first used to distinguish between numbers of people bearing the same personal name.

With the growth of documentation in the later Middle Ages, such names became essential, and a person, whose distinguishing name described his trade, his place of residence, his father’s name, or some personal characteristic, passed that name on to his children, and the surname became hereditary.

La Barre, Haute-Saône

The fictional character Jean-Luc Picard of the American science-fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation was born and raised in La Barre.



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Battle of Nevis

On 14 May at Martinique French Admiral de La Barre, Martinique's governor Vice Admiral de Clodoré and Guadeloupe's governor Rear Admiral Du Lion, plus the fireships were met by Crijnssen’s Dutch squadron who had reconquered Berbice and St Eustatius from the English.

Château de la Barre

The Château de la Barre is a residence in the commune of Brégnier-Cordon in the Ain département of France.

François Poullain de la Barre

Geneviève Fraisse, Poullain de la Barre, ou le procès des préjugés, Corpus n° 1, 1985 pp.

Simone de Beauvoir, quoting Poulain de la Barre, wrote in an epigraph to The Second Sex in 1949: "All that has been written about women by men should be

Louis-Hector de Callières

The situation of the colony at that time was most critical, owing to Frontenac's departure, the weakness of Governor de la Barre, and the woeful error of the French government in sending to the galleys in France some Iroquois chiefs captured at Cataracoui (Kingston).

Røros

In 1718, during the Great Northern War, the town was once again taken by the Swedish Army, led by General De la Barre, who made up the southern arm of the main Swedish Army under Carl Gustaf Armfeldt.