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3 unusual facts about La Reunion


La Reunion

La Réunion, Lot-et-Garonne, a town in the Lot-et-Garonne department of France

Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar

Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion

The seat of the bishop is Cathédrale Saint-Denis in Saint-Denis.


Charles Fourier

Fourier's views inspired the founding of the community of Utopia, Ohio; La Reunion near present-day Dallas, Texas; the North American Phalanx in Red Bank, New Jersey; Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts (where Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the founders); the Community Place and Sodus Bay Phalanx in New York State, and several other communities in the United States.

Force d'action navale

This force also operates five smaller craft which are based in Fort de France, Toulon, Papeete, Nouméa, and La Réunion.

Gilbert Aubry

Gilbert Guillaume Marie-Jean Aubry (born 10 May 1942 in Saint-Louis, Réunion) is the Réunionnais bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion.

Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale

The DCSP has competency in 75 departments and within the territorial services of 7 large provincial towns (Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Rennes) and overseas (La Réunion, New Caledonia and Antilles- French Guiana).

Juliette Dodu

A street bears her name in Paris, Havre, Montreuil, and Saint-Denis de la Réunion, where one likewise counts a public high school named in her honor.


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