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3 unusual facts about La Garde


Feudalism

Further, the earliest use of feuum (as a replacement for beneficium) can be dated to 899, the same year a Muslim base at Fraxinetum (La Garde-Freinet) in Provence was established.

Ibn Hawqal

Ibn Hawqal recorded that the area of Fraxinet (La Garde-Freinet) was richly cultivated by its Muslim inhabitants, and they have been credited with a number of agricultural and fishing innovations for the region.

Isabelle Devaluez

Devaluez set her personal best in the women's discus throw event (62.02 metres) on 15 June 1996 in La Garde.



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Nicolas Toussaint Charlet

His "Grenadier de Waterloo", 1817, with the motto "La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas" (a famous phrase frequently attributed to Cambronne, but which he never uttered, and which cannot, perhaps, be traced farther than to this lithograph by Charlet), was particularly popular.

Pierre de La Garde

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

Romain Hervé

Romain Herve's appearances in France, in recital or as a soloist with orchestra, have included performances at the Salle Pleyel, at the Salle Gaveau with the European Romantic Orchestra, at the Maison de Radio France with the Orchestre de la Garde Republicaine, at the Cité de la Musique with Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, at the Salle Cortot, the auditoriums of the Palais Royal and at the Musée Grevin.