In addition, the Canadians were to protect the left (southern) flank of the 9th Battalion, Parachute Regiment during that unit's attack on the Merville Battery, afterwards seizing a position astride the Le Mesnil crossroads, a vital position at the centre of the ridge.
Through a joint ownership between his breeder, the Aga Khan IV, and Darley Stud, he stood as a sire at the Aga Khan's Gilltown Stud near Kilcullen, County Kildare, Ireland until 2006 when he was sent to his Haras de Bonneval stud at Le Mesnil-Mauger in France.
Le Mesnil-Durdent, a commune in the Seine-Maritime département, France
He was awarded the Knight's Cross for his bravery and leadership in Normandy, in the Caen sector at Le Mesnil-Patry and Cheux, when on 27 June his company destroyed 37 Allied tanks, 11 of which Siegel destroyed himself.
The JPM 01 Médoc is a French amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Jean-Pierre Marie in 1977 and produced by Les Avions Jean-Pierre Marie (JPM) of Le Mesnil-Esnard.
The JPM 03 Loiret is a French amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Jean-Pierre Marie and produced by Les Avions Jean-Pierre Marie (JPM) of Le Mesnil-Esnard.
Serge Gainsbourg, until then Lucien Ginsburg, married Élisabeth Levitsky at Mesnil-le-Roi Town Hall on 3 November 1951.
A fourteenth-century fortified manorhouse called the Château de la Reine Blanche (allegedly owned by Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan).
Retired to stud duty, he met with modest success as a sire while standing at Prince Aly Khan's Haras de Saint-Crespin near Le Mesnil-Mauger in Lower Normandy.
Major-General Pierre Bonnemains, Baron of Bonnemains (13 September 1773 in Tréauville – 9 November 1850 in Mesnil-Garnier, was a French officer during the Napoleonic Wars and a member of the French Parliament.
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Only four villages are located on the actual Côtes des Blancs slope, namely Avize, Cramant, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger and Oger but all municipalities between Cuis and Bergères-les-Vertus have their vineyards on the côtes.