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9 unusual facts about La Chapelle


Château de la Motte-Glain

Le château de la Motte-Glain is a castle built in the commune of La Chapelle-Glain, Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Faucher

La Chapelle-Faucher is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.

La Chapelle-d'Abondance

It is possible to ski to Torgon in Switzerland or ski towards the Super Chatel domain and the vast Portes du Soleil ski area.

La Chapelle-Huon

It is the department of Sarthe, which is since 1790 the eastern part of the former province of Maine.

La Chapelle-Launay

The Second Breton War of Succession pitted the supporters of two different claimants against one another: those of the half-brother of the deceased John III, Duke of Brittany, Jean de Montfort, who relied on the Estates of Brittany who gathered in Nantes, and those of Charles I, Duke of Brittany, who was supported by King Philippe VI of France and was recognized as Duke of Brittany by the peers of the kingdom.

La Chapelle-Saint-Sauveur

La Chapelle-Saint-Sauveur, Loire-Atlantique, a commune in the French region of Pays-de-la-Loire

La Chapelle-Taillefert

Victor Lanoux, comedian and writer, born 1936, lived here during the Second World War.

Lehmann Aviation LA300

Lehmann Aviation LA300 is a fully automatic lightweight small UAV launched by Lehmann Aviation, the French manufacturer of leightweight versatile UAS based in La Chapelle-Vendômoise, Loir-et-Cher, in July 2013.

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Gauguin had been a student at the Petit Séminaire de La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin, just outside of Orléans, from the age of eleven to the age of sixteen.


Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora

In only 10 years, "Little Jaffna", located at the last stretch of the winding street of Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis in the 10th arrondissement, between metros Gare de Nord and La Chapelle, has sprung to life and begun to truly flourish.


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Anne de Gaulle

In October 1945, Yvonne de Gaulle bought the Château de Vert-Cœur at Milon-la-Chapelle (Yvelines), where they installed a private hospital for handicapped young girls: the Fondation Anne de Gaulle.

Antoine de Castelnau

Antoine de Castelnau was the son of Louis de Castelnau, baron of Castelnau, Miremont, Buanes and Bats,(1460–before 1529), and Susanne de Gramont (died after 1525).

Antoniotto Botta Adorno

After the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, he became plenipotentiary of the Austrian Netherlands under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.

Barrier town

In the War of the Austrian Succession, France conquered these towns, but at the end of the war was forced to return them to the Netherlands by the 1748 Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle and the resulting Treaty.

Battle of Bloody Marsh

The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the war in 1748 and recognised the status of Georgia as a British colony, formally ratified by Spain in the subsequent Treaty of Madrid.

Bram van Velde

In 1973, he painted at La Chapelle-sur-Carouge several large gouaches which are seen as the last "savage" appearance of colour in his work.

Charles Étienne Louis Camus

Charles Étienne Louis Camus (25 August 1699 – 2 February 1768), was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Crécy-en-Brie, near Meaux.

Château de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle

The Château de Castelnaud is a medieval fortress in the commune of Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, overlooking the Dordogne River in Périgord, southern France.

Château des Milandes

Built around 1489, it was the main house of the lords of Caumont until 1535, who preferred to live in this manor house instead of the large, uncomfortable medieval castle of Château de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle.

Clara D. Bloomfield

Dr. Bloomfield is married to Dr. Albert de la Chapelle, a geneticist and professor in the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics at The Ohio State University and discoverer of XX male syndrome.

Defensive Sector of the Rhône

Valley defenses of the Pas de Morgins: Three blockhouses at La Chapelle d'Abondance.

Duchy of Parma

The Habsburgs only ruled until the conclusion of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, when it was ceded back to the Bourbons in the person of Don Philip, Don Charles's younger brother, which received also the little Duchy of Guastalla.

Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle

Bonnier de La Chapelle participated in an anti-German student demonstration at the Arc de Triomphe on Armistice Day, November 11, 1940.

Fortress of Louisbourg

In 1748, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession, restored Louisbourg to France in return for territory gained in the Austrian Netherlands and the British trading post at Madras in India.

Le Safran de la Chapelle-Vicomtesse

Le Safran de la Chapelle Vicomtesse are producers of Saffron in the Loir-et-Cher region of France.

Pierre de La Garde

Pierre de La Garde (10 February 1717, Crécy-la-Chapelle – 1792) was a French composer and baritone.

Quintuple Alliance

After Aix-la-Chapelle (now Aachen), the Alliance powers met three more times: in 1820 at the Congress of Troppau (Opava), in 1821 at the Congress of Laibach (Ljubljana); and in 1822 at the Congress of Verona.

Salvador Arango

In 1990 was invited by International Art Connection to represent Colombia in a major exhibition of visual arts International Des Createurs Laura La Chapelle de la Sorbonne in Paris.

Stringer Lawrence

He successfully foiled an attempted French surprise at Cuddalore, but subsequently was captured by a French cavalry patrol at Ariancopang (Ariankuppam) while leading forces advancing on Pondicherry (which was then besieged by Admiral Edward Boscawen), and kept prisoner till the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.

Vincent La Chapelle

It has recently been shown that the Saxon minister Heinrich, Graf von Bruhl, had a chef d'office who also had the surname La Chapelle, and the two made regular visits to the Meissen factory between 1737 and 1740—during the period when the radically inventive Swan service was in production.

Vincent La Chapelle (1690 or 1703 – 1745) was a French master cook to Phillip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, to William IV, Prince of Orange, to John V of Portugal then to Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV of France.

To some degree, La Chapelle borrowed some of his recipes from his predecessor François Massialot, who composed a book on court cookery and confectionery in 1692.

War of Jenkins' Ear

Peace arrived with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748.

The eventual diplomatic resolution formed part of the wider settlement of the War of the Austrian Succession by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.