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3 unusual facts about Lalande


Henriette Méric-Lalande

At La Scala in Milan, she created again for Bellini, Imogene in Il pirata in 1827, and Alaide in La straniera in 1829.

An accomplished virtuoso singer, she also enjoyed acclaim in Rossini operas such as La donna del lago, Mosè in Egitto, Semiramide.

Silvio Denz

In 2007 he bought Château de Chambrun, situated in Lalande-de-Pomerol, and in 2010, he and Peter Sisseck took over the historic vineyard of Château Rocheyron in Saint-Emilion.


Atlas Coelestis

In 1795 it was published in an updated version, produced by Mechain and Lalande, with new constellations and many more nebulae.

Edison-Lalande cell

In 1880, the manufacturer De Branville and Company of 25 rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris exploited the patent of Lalande and Chaperon to build copper oxide batteries.

Ex Cathedra

Upon Hyperion's appeal, the Court of Appeal held on 19 May 2005 that Sawkins owned the copyright in his modern performing editions of the de Lalande music, even though de Lalande's music itself was out of copyright.

Jean Baptiste LeLande

LeRoy R. Hafen, "New Light on LaLande, First Ameridcan in Colorado," Colorado Magazine, XXIV (Sept. 1947), 194–97.

Julien Pierre Anne Lalande

He became one of the main actors in the Oriental Crisis of 1840 when the French Levant Squadron did not stop the Ottoman Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral) Ahmed Fawzi Pasha who defected with the whole Ottoman Fleet to the Sultan´s enemy Muhammad Ali of Egypt ("Lalande affair").

Lalande 21185

The celestial coordinates of Lalande 21185 were first published in 1801 by French astronomer Jérôme Lalande of the Paris Observatory in the star catalog, Histoire Céleste Française.

Pyracantha coccinea

About 1874 M. Lalande, a nurseryman in Angers, France, selected from seedlings of P. coccinea an improved form, more freely berrying than the type.


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