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9 unusual facts about La Ciotat


Arnaud Courlet de Vregille

"Following a very contemporary trend, an expression of the point of view of one art on another, which resumes here in an independant vision the wonder of new discovery", a portrait of the Lumière brothers : Lumière ou Projection privée (Light or Private projection), is exhibited in l'Eden Théâtre de La Ciotat.

Battle of La Ciotat

Allied forces, engaged at the main landings in Vichy France, ordered a small flotilla of American and British warships to make a feint against the port city of La Ciotat as a diversion.

Élisée Maclet

He painted in Orange, Vaison-La Romaine, La Ciotat, Cassis, Golfe Juan, Antibes, Cagnes, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Ville-Franche, Nice, Menton, San Remo, sending back to Von Frey glowing landscapes and glorious floral still lifes.

François Coulomb the Younger

François Coulomb the Younger (La Ciotat, 1691 - Toulon, July 1751) was a French naval architect, son of François Coulomb the Elder.

La Ciotat

La Ciotat was the setting of one the very first projected motion pictures, L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat filmed by the Lumière brothers in 1895.

Another three of the earliest Lumière films, Partie de cartes, l'Arroseur arrosé (the first known filmed comedy), and Repas de bébé, were also filmed in La Ciotat in 1895, at the Villa du Clos des Plages, the summer residence of the Lumière Brothers.

Michel Serre

In La Ciotat, two of his paintings, Vierge de grâces and Vierge de grâces et purgatoire, are displayed in the Église Notre-Dame.

Société Provençale de Constructions Aéronautiques

The Société Provençale de Constructions Aéronautiques (SPCA) was an aircraft manufacturing company based in France, with its head office in Paris and its workshop in La Ciotat, Marseille.

YuuWaa

The service was operated by Gemalto which was based in La Ciotat, France, and was known for offering a secure solution to users permitting access and sharing of many different types of files and documents.


Agglomeration community of Pays d'Aubagne et de l'Etoile

The hills of Pagnol and the landscapes of Cézanne depict the hectic daily life of its inhabitants, while in the vicinity are other magnificent sites such as the Calanques or inlets from Marseille to La Ciotat through Cassis, and the Sainte-Baume mountain range.


see also

Dupleix

a steamship built at La Ciotat in 1862, which between 1883 and 1888 operated between Sydney and Noumea, was sold, refurbished and subsequently operated between Australia and New Zealand.