The First European championship was held at Lamotte-Beuvron 2004 in France and there were 5 editions of the tournament.
The novel is set in the country-side around Lamotte-Beuvron and Brinon-sur-Sauldre, and deals with the relationship between landowners and poor people in the years after World War I.
Lamotte-Beuvron | Mado Lamotte | Neung-sur-Beuvron | Lamotte Township, Crawford County, Illinois |
His sieges of Vellaunodunum, Genabum and Noviodunum en route caused Vercingetorix to lift his siege and march to meet Caesar in open battle at Noviodunum, which Caesar won.
In 1779 sailed to Fort Royal to take part in a squadron under Lamotte-Picquet in the fleet of Admiral d'Estaing.
and eight other men organized the Pilgrim Predestinarian Regular Baptist Church in Lamotte, Illinois.
Neung sur Beuvron is thought to be the Roman town of Noviodunum Biturigum, in which Vercingetorix and Julius Caesar fought in 52 BC.