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6 unusual facts about La Tour


Bajoo

Bajoo is a French company, it's a file hosting service which allows to store and share files online, the company is located at la Tour du Pin, in France.

Guilhem de la Tor

The tor (tower, castle) that was Guilhem's birthplace does not survive, but it was in the vicinity of the modern town of La Tour-Blanche, Dordogne.

Henry II of Rodez

Beatrix, lady of Scorailles and Saint-Christophe, married (1295) Bernard III (died 1325), lord of La Tour

Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne

Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (1498 – 28 April 1519) was a younger daughter of Jean III de La Tour (1467– 28 March 1501), Count of Auvergne and Lauraguais, and Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendôme (1465–1511).

She outlived Madeleine by five years but died childless, after which the Counties of Auvergne and Boulogne as well as the barony of La Tour passed to Madeleine's daughter Catherine de' Medici and then to the French Crown.

Shangri-La Tour

The tour lineup included Mark Knopfler (guitar, vocals), Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Richard Bennett (guitar), Matt Rollings (piano), Glenn Worf (bass), and Chad Cromwell (drums).


Gare de Lyon-Jean Macé

The station allows passengers to regional trains from Bourgoin-Jallieu, La Tour-du-Pin, Saint-André-le-Gaz, Vienne, Valencia, Mâcon and Villefranche-sur-Saône, according to their final destination, to use the new station as additional entry point in the center of Lyon.

Les Passions

Its vocation is to convince the public that ancient music is as relevant to the present as are the writings of Molière, the paintings of La Tour or the architecture of Mansart.


see also

Château de Montribloud

At the beginning of the 15th century, after the death without heirs of Eudes de Villars, Montribloud passed in 1418 to his grand-nephews, the sons of Jeanne de la Tour and of Jean de La Baume, Count of de Montrevel and Marshal of France.

Countess Elisabeth of Nassau

Marie de La Tour d'Auvergne (1599 – 24 May 1665) married Henri de La Trémoille, Duke of Thouars, Prince of Talmont and had issue;

Humbert I of Viennois

He was the son of Albert IV, baron of la Tour-du-Pin, and of Béatrice de Coligny (herself the daughter of Hugh I, lord of Coligny and of Béatrice d'Albon, dauphine of Viennois).

Jean Rabier

Les Plus Belles Escroqueries du monde (The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers) (segment L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel) (1964)

Le Plan-de-la-Tour

It is a quiet, small village, that is perhaps best known because Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are part-time residents.

Marie of Savoy

Marie of Savoy, Baroness of Faucigny (1298-1336), daughter of Amadeus V, Count of Savoy; wife of Hugues de La Tour du Pin, Baron de Faucigny

Meyrueis

Meyrueis is the scene of the sprint finish of an amateur 1977 cycle race, La Tour de Mont Aigoual, which is the subject of the novel The Rider (De Renner) by the Dutch author Tim Krabbé.

Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération

The Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération is a military museum located in the 7th arrondissement at 51 bis boulevard de La Tour-Maubourg, Paris, France.

Port La Tour, Nova Scotia

By 1641, La Tour lost Cape Sable Island, Pentagouet (Castine, Maine), and Port Royal, Nova Scotia to Governor of Acadia Charles de Menou d'Aulnay de Charnisay.

Salon-la-Tour

Violette Szabo, a 22-year-old British agent who was parachuted a second time into France, on June 7 1944 (where she was to try to help obstructing the movement of German SS units from the south of France to Normandy), was captured near Salon-la-Tour.

Seyssinet-Pariset

La tour Sans venin located in the hamlet of Pariset, is known among the Seven wonders of Dauphiné .

Syren

Syren, Luxembourg, a small town in the commune of Weiler-la-Tour, in southern Luxembourg

William Crowne

These included Thomas Elliot (a groom of the bedchamber to Charles II), Sir Lewis Kirke and others (who had taken Acadia in the expedition against Quebec in 1632), and heirs of Sir William Alexander (the original grantee, from whom Charles de la Tour's father had obtained the grant).