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5 unusual facts about LaTour


Fantin

10311 Fantin-Latour (1990 QL9), Main-belt Asteroid discovered on August 16, 1990

Henri Fantin-Latour

In 1875, Henri Fantin-Latour married a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, after which he spent his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne in Lower Normandy, where he died of lyme disease on 25 August 1904.

The painting "A basket of roses" was used as a cover of New Order's album "Power, Corruption & Lies" in 1983.

Peter Scholl-Latour

In 1945 and 1946 Scholl-Latour was a member the Commando Parachutiste Ponchardier, a unit of French paratroopers, with whom he fought in the First Indochina War.

In 1973 he and his team were prisoners of the Viet Cong for one week, but he was allowed to film a documentary about the experience, which would be called "8 Days with the Viet Cong".


Antoine Barnave

On the arrest of the king and the royal family during the Flight to Varennes, Barnave was one of the three appointed to conduct them back to Paris, along with Jerome Petion and the Marquis de Latour-Maubourg.

Gare de Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg

Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg (Catalan: La Tor de Querol-Enveig) or Latour-de-Carol is a railway station in Enveitg and Latour-de-Carol, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

Jean Théodore Latour

Latour was appointed official pianist to the Prince Regent (later King George IV of the United Kingdom).

Maison Louis Latour

Here Latour owns 10.5 hectares (25 acres) of Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru, one of the most famous white wines of Burgundy.

Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour

Born at Latour Castle near Virton in the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium), he joined the Austrian Army in 1755 and distinguished himself in the Seven Years' War.

Museum David and Alice van Buuren

David van Buuren decorated his house with paintings from James Ensor, Joachim Patinir, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hercules Seghers, Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Tsuguharu Foujita, Kees van Dongen, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Fantin-Latour, Rik Wouters, Gustave De Smet, Xavier Mellery en Constant Permeke.

Patricia Barbizet

Artemis owns 40% of PPR, 100% of Christie’s, Chateau Latour, Le Point ...

The Squids

The Squids were created in 1989 in the Chicago basement of LaTour after LaTour and Spatafora attended a Dead Milkmen and Ramones concert at Metro Chicago.

Transport in Andorra

Two stations in France are connected by bus to Andorra la VellaL'Hospitalet-près-l'Andorre (served by the SNCF) and Latour-de-Carol, served by both SNCF's line to Toulouse and Spain's (RENFE's) line to Barcelona.

Victor Sappey

He was a friend of Théodore Ravanat and Henri Fantin-Latour, and was close to all members of the École dauphinoise that he attended in Proveysieux.


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