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17 unusual facts about Laval


Anne Pierre Adrien, duc de Montmorency-Laval

Anne Pierre Adrien de Montmorency, Duc de Laval peer of France, Knight of the King's orders and the Golden Fleece, Knight of Saint Louis, Grandee of Spain (October 29, 1768 Paris - June 16, 1837) was a French foreign Minister.

He continued to manage the affairs of France with the same zeal, he received from His Majesty the Catholic order of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and the title of Duke of San Fernando Luis.

He returned to Holyrood Palace, where the king bestowed the most unequivocal demonstration of complete satisfaction that we had had all its services.

Château de Vitré

At his death, the land fell to the family of the Counts of Laval.

Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy

Mother Teresa Ewa countess Sułkowska princes Potocka after eight months of practice in the House of Mercy in the Laval (France) returned to Poland and at the invitation of Archbishop Zygmunt Szczesny Feliński she took over shelter (Dom Schronienia pol) in Warsaw for girls failed morally.

In 1878 there was a connection to the assembly on the Laval and obtain a decree authorizing the activities of the Papal Order.

Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut

He was born in Saint-Germain-Laval, near Saint-Etienne, France, and first returned to New France in 1674.

François Fiedler

François Fiedler (Košice, 1921 - Saint-Germain-Laval, Seine-et-Marne, 2001) was a Hungarian-born naturalized French painter.

GYS

Although GYS is headquartered in Laval, Mayenne - about 280 km west of Paris - the industrial group has R&D centers, factories and commercial subsidiaries in France, Germany, UK and China.

Igny Abbey

Igny was destroyed in 1918, but a new monastery was rebuilt in 1929 for a group of nuns from Laval.

Jennifer Dawson

Following the completion of her studies, she worked as a teacher at a convent in Laval in France and later at Oxford University Press where she made editorial contributions to a number of reference works.

Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval

During the French Revolution Montmorency-Laval left France and lived in exile in the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway, settling in the town of Altona, now a part of Germany.

He was born 11 December 1724 in the Castle of Baillet in the town of Bayers, then in the ancient Province of Angoumois, now part of the Department of Charente.

Maximilian Godefroy

, he designed a new wing to the Palais de Justice and the Préfecture, both at Laval, Mayenne, France.

Syndicat des Cols Bleus de la Ville de Laval

The Syndicat des Cols Bleus de la Ville de Laval is a trade union representing blue-collar workers in Laval, Quebec, Canada.

The Sleeping Gypsy

Rousseau first exhibited the painting at the 13th Salon des Indépendants, and tried unsuccessfully to sell it to the mayor of his hometown, Laval.

Western Australia border

This expedition, to determine 129° east on the ground, created world-wide scientific interest and involved the cooperation of the Astronomer Royal and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with wireless time signals sent by the French wireless Service, that were transmitted from the Lyons astronomical observatory (Observatoire de Lyon) at Saint-Genis-Laval, near Lyons, France, between 17 and 24 November 1920.


2000 Boulevard du Souvenir overpass collapse

A similar incident occurred on September 30, 2006, also in Laval, on Autoroute 19 where the collapse of the De la Concorde overpass killed five.

Battle of Laval

The battle of Laval took place on 22 October 1793, during the war in the Vendée and saw Vendéen victory over republican troops.

Billy Laval

After the season, the school sent Laval to be mentored by Illinois head coach and football innovator Robert Zuppke, who had won the 1914 national championship.

CFAV

CJLV, a French-language Canadian radio station located in Laval, Quebec, near Montreal, Canada; from 2004-2010 it was called CFAV.

Charles Laval

Laval was born in Paris, and was a contemporary and friend of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh.

Paul Gauguin and Laval both came to Pension Gloanec in Pont-Aven in 1886 and became friends.

Van Gogh asked Laval, Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard to send him a portrait, in exchange for one of his own self-portraits.

Château de Beaumesnil

The east and west facades are heavily decorated with carvings — windows have grotesque masks inspired by the Commedia dell'arte, intertwined letters "M" and "D" allude to Marie Dauvet Des Marets, wife of Jacques, Marquis of Nonant and daughter Nicolas Brûlart de Sillery, Chancellor of France while the shields of the Montmorency-Laval branch of the Laval family appear above the main doorways.

Chomedey

Chomedey, Quebec, a former city that is now a district of the city of Laval, Quebec

Claude de La Trémoille

They had four children: Henry; Charlotte, who married James Stanley, Earl of Derby; Élisabeth (1601–1604); and Frédéric (1602–1642) comte de Laval.

Duvernay

Duvernay, Quebec, a former city, now a district of Laval, Quebec, Canada

Épuration légale

They were Pierre Laval, Milice leader Joseph Darnand, and Fernand de Brinon, representative of the Vichy government to the German High Command in Paris and state secretary.

Ernest Choquette

Born in Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Canada East, Choquette studied medicine at the Université de Laval à Montréal (now called Université de Montréal).

Esther Delisle

She then studied for three years at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before returning to Laval to complete her doctorate, following which she did post-doctoral studies at the department of history at McGill University.

Gilles de la Pommeraie

He is a member of Pommeraie family, from Britanny and serves Laval Family, and possessed land of Verger Castle of Montigné and d'Entrammes (Mayenne).

Guy XIII de Laval

As daughter and sole heir to Guy XII de Laval, Anne was "dame de Laval", and one of the conditions of the marriage was that any children born to it would bear the name and arms of the House of Laval.

Guy XIV de Laval

Among the favours distributed by the king on this occasion, the territory of Laval was raised to a county and Guy de Laval was made governor of Lagny in 1430.

Hana Gartner

Gartner grew up in Chomedey, Laval, and was educated at Loyola College (now Concordia University), in Montreal Quebec.

Highway 25 Bridge

Olivier-Charbonneau Bridge, over the Rivière des Prairies, between Laval and Montreal, in Quebec, Canada

Jean François Paul de Gondi

Gilles de Rais, a Laval and comrade in arms of Joan of Arc, was executed without an heir, so the barony passed successively to the families of Tournemine, Annebaut and Gondi.

Karl Offmann

He worked for the paper until 1979 when he was offered the post of Director of Father Laval's Printing, a company owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port-Louis and for which he worked until 1983.

Lise de Baissac

Her SOE dossier states "She was the inspiring-force for the groups in the Orne, and through her initiatives she inflicted heavy losses on the Germans thanks to anti-tyre devices scattered on the roads near Saint-Aubin-du-Désert, Saint-Mars-du-Désert, and even as far as Laval, Le Mans and Rennes. She also took part in armed attacks on enemy columns."

Lordship of Champlain

In 1684, Monsignor François de Montmorency-Laval gives the official titles to the Catholic parish of Champlain, twenty years after the creation of the Lordship of Champlain, pointing out that the place is commonly called "Champlain".

Marcel-Claude Roy

He was re-elected at Laval (subsequently Laval West) in the 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1980 federal elections but was defeated by Guy Ricard of the Progressive Conservative party.

Mareen Duvall

He received a patent from the first proprietors of the Maryland Colony, the Calvert family on that day for La Val, named after his family's estate in the County of Laval, an independent county created in the 15th century in the County of Maine, on the south side the South River in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Martine Beaugrand

Martine Beaugrand is a Canadian politician, who was acclaimed as the new interim mayor of Laval, Quebec on July 3, 2013 following the resignation of Alexandre Duplessis.

Musée de l'Amérique francophone

Fonded by Monseigneur François de Montmorency-Laval in 1663, the Séminaire de Québec now houses the musée de l'Amérique française, which gives it the distinction of being the oldest museum in Canada.

Quebec Route 148

It runs from junction of Autoroute 13 and Autoroute 440 in Laval in the Montreal region to the Ontario-Quebec border in L'Isle-aux-Allumettes in western Quebec.

Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, Quebec

On August 26, 1972, five days after escaping from Saint-Vincent-de-Paul jail in Laval, Quebec, notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine and his Quebec accomplice Jean-Paul Mercier robbed the Caisse populaire of Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage.

Saint-Vincent-de-Paul

Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Quebec, a former city that is now a district of the city of Laval, Quebec

Samuel Polyakov

Samuel Polyakov's Saint Peterburg home was the former Countess Laval palace at 4, English Embankment, a four-storey neoclassical landmark designed by Thomas de Thomon; in 1820s-1830s the building housed literary salons attended by Vasily Zhukovsky, Alexander Pushkin and Adam Mickiewicz.

Stanislas du Lac

Entering into the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at Issenheim in Alsace, October 28, 1853, he studied theology at Laval until 1869, when he was ordained priest by Mgr. Wicart, 19 September.

Third Congress on the French Language in Canada

Afterwards came the prime minister of Canada Louis Saint-Laurent and the premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis as presidents, the archbishop of Montreal Mgr Paul-Émile Léger, chief justice of Canada Thibaudeau Rinfret, Université Laval rector Ferdinand Vandry, chief justice of the supreme court of New Brunswick Enoil Michaud, and Henri T. Ledoux, as vice presidents.