The group earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for operations on 1 September 1944 when, in a series of missions, the group attacked German columns south of the Loire in order to disrupt the enemy's retreat across central France to Dijon.
Shortly afterwards Rosalie is horribly disfigured in a steamboat accident on the River Loire.
On November 1, 1944, she was fatally injured in a Medevac C-47 crash near Saint-Chamond, Loire, France.
The marriage contract was signed at Montbrison on 4 July 1368 and the pair were married in person at Ardes in January 1370.
By a decree issued on 30 April 1793, the army was responsible for the defence of the coasts and areas between the estuaries of the Gironde and Loire and that of the right bank of the river to Ingrandes, against the threat of Britain.
It was situated about 26 km to the north-east of La Charité-sur-Loire on a tributary of the River Nièvre.
Brains, Loire-Atlantique, commune of the Loire-Atlantique département, in France
Schell's career continued into the mid-1990s, after which she retired from acting and opened Chambre d'Hôtes Valentin, a small guesthouse in Bonneval, Haute-Loire, France, which would become a popular destination for fans of Space: 1999.
It is in April, 1164, that Pope Alexandre III, taken refuge in France, gives a bull to the Abbey of Saint-Martin d'Autun, confirming the patronage of the church to the advantage of this abbey:" Ecclesiam de Chariaco ".
The Château de Candé is a castle located in the commune of Monts, Indre-et-Loire, 10 km (6 mi) to the south of Tours on the border of the département of Indre in France.
The Château de Chaumont (or Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire) is a castle in Chaumont-sur-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, France.
Revolutionary era: a certificate of the commune of Rully, in connection with the marquise of Montessus, held for some time in the prison of Chalon, attests that les malheureux ont toujours trouvé en elle une mère, l'opprimé un soutien (the unhappy always found in it a mother, the oppressed support)
The Château de Sully-sur-Loire is a castle, converted to a palatial seigneurial residence, situated in the commune of Sully-sur-Loire, Loiret, France.
The fairly large Gladiator factory was thus converted into an arms manufacture in 1915 and became the principal industrial producer of Chauchat machine rifles during World War I. Later on, in 1918, a subsidiary of Compagnie des forges et acieries de la marine et d'Homecourt named SIDARME and located in Saint-Chamond, Loire, also participated in the mass manufacture of CSRGs.
Cherré, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department, France
According to the inscription on folio 130 it belonged in the 11th century to the famous Benedictine Abbey of Fleury on the Loire (hence name of the codex).
1615, a ninth-century manuscript from Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire called the Liber sancti Benedicti Floriacensis, is a compilation of astronomy in which Colman's verses are found under the rubric "Colmanus nepos Cracavist in Roma virtutem hanc sanctae Brigitę praedicavi" in a section titled "De peritia cursus lunae et maris".
Known throughout the novel as "The Man from Meung", his first appearance is in the opening chapter of The Three Musketeers.
He was born in Saint-Germain-Laval, near Saint-Etienne, France, and first returned to New France in 1674.
In 1930, it was renamed to Déléage, in honour of Jean-Francois-Regis Déléage (1821-1884), born in Haute-Loire and missionary in the Outaouais from 1853 to 1879, where he founded a dozen parishes.
Denée, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in France
The duchy of Francia (ducatus Franciae) comprised the region between the Loire and the Seine, the ancient kingdom of Neustria.
In giving directions for public services, the Ritual refers to this custom particularly as observed at Fleury-sur-Loire and Ghent.
Nantes is the sixth largest city in France, and is also located on the riverside of the Loire and only 50 km away from the Atlantic coast.
The Embranchement de Châtillon is a branch of the Canal latéral à la Loire that connects to the Loire at Châtillon-sur-Loire.
Emmanuelle Bertrand (born on 5 November 1971 in Firminy, Loire) is a French cellist.
Fleury Abbey (Floriacum) in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, France, founded about 640, is one of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries of Western Europe, which possesses the relics of St. Benedict of Nursia.
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Its site on the banks of the Loire has always made it easily accessible from Orléans, a center of culture unbroken since Roman times.
At her death in 1614, she was buried in the church at Broc.
Gené, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in France
Jacques Lameloise was chef de cuisine at the French restaurant Maison Lameloise (usually known as Lameloise) in Chagny.
He was also a paleontologist, part of the first team to excavate the archaeological site of Roc-en Paille (Chalonnes-sur-Loire, Maine-et-Loire).
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Triger was also Deputy Director of coal mining operations in Chalonnes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire).
As a result of France's generosity and Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont's love of America, he inadvertently helped pave the way for the French Revolution, in 1789, that dramatically impacted on his own finances, resulting in the new French Revolutionary government seizing his assets including his beloved Chateau at Chaumont-sur-Loire.
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Franklin however did not visit Le Ray's luxurious Chateau at Chaumont-sur-Loire in the Loire Valley but his grandson Temple did.
Jean-Claude Frécon (born 3 September 1944) is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Loire department, and has served in the Congress of the Council of Europe since 1994, of which he is the current President of Chamber of Local Authorities (elected in 2010)in the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe having served as a Vice-President in Congress since 2002 and as President of the Congress French Delegation since 2004.
Jean-Louis Gagnaire (born April 29, 1956 in Saint-Étienne, Loire) is a member of the National Assembly of France.
Jeanne Leocadie de Tramcourt (9 December 1875, Tracy-sur-Loire, France – 2 January 1952 in Stjärnhov, Södermanland) was the French long term girlfriend of Prince Wilhelm of Sweden.
Joan of France, also known as Joan or Joanna of Valois (June 24, 1343, Châteauneuf-sur-Loire – November 3, 1373, Évreux), was the daughter of John II of France (called The Good), and his first wife, Bonne of Luxembourg.
Juif, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France
La Chapelle-Saint-Sauveur, Loire-Atlantique, a commune in the French region of Pays-de-la-Loire
La Varenne, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in France
Laurent Rédon (born 5 August 1973) is a former race car driver from Loire, France.
It had a conventional tailwheel undercarriage with its mainwheels mounted on single legs and retracting inwards into the wing and fuselage underside, hydraulically driven via a pair of outboard struts.
The chief of staff of the air force, general Joseph Vuillemin, declared that the aircraft was too slow, and requested the development of a fast dive bomber for the air force, which became the Loire-Nieuport LN.42.
The name Lourinhã may be related to the origin of its feudal lord, since Jordan was from the Loire region in France.
--2 years from 2012--> the foundation decided to close the school and entered negotiations with the commune of Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire on what to do with the land.
Maillé, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, site of a 1944 war crime
The principal bibliographic resources are the memoirs of abbot André Payon, published for many years by the Conseil Général of the Indre-et-Loire (Payon, 1945).
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The Maillé Massacre refers to the murder on 25 August 1944 of 124 of the 500 residents of the commune of Maillé in the department of the Indre-et-Loire.
Marechal Foch was formerly commonly grown in the Loire, but today it is limited to a small number of hectares in Europe.
Julie Marie Jahenny (born 12 February 1850 in Coyault, near Blain, died 4 March 1941) - French mystic and stigmatist.
Marie-Dominique Philippe (September 8, 1912 in Nord (department) – August 26, 2006 in Loire) was a Dominican philosopher and theologian.
Born on 29 November 1890 at Decize, Nièvre as Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix, Genevoix spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire.
On April 12, 1987 the documents were signed for the partnership with the French city Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire.
Also in fiction, Meung-sur-Loire is the country home of Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, Georges Simenon's classic crime fiction character.
Michel Thiollière (born 10 April 1955 in Saint-Étienne, Loire) is a French politician, senator for the Loire since 2001.
In 1904, Cistercian monks were forced to abandon the Fontgombault Abbey in Indre-et-Loire, France, after a 1901 secularist-driven French law had given the government control over non-profit associations and threatened the existence of monasteries.
It is known that, in 1100, Count Henry invited monks from La Charité-sur-Loire to come to Rates, in order to establish a Benedictine monastery of the Cluniac branch.
During this time the body of St Benedict was transferred to Fleury, the modern Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire near Orleans, France.
The Janon river running east from Terrenoire (now part of Saint-Étienne) and then the Gier continuing east from Saint-Chamond to meet the Rhone at Givors create a valley in the coal basin that separates Mont Pilat from the Monts du Lyonnais.
Orbigny, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in France
In 1791 he moved to a castle in Meung-sur-Loire, but he was arrested in 1794 as a suspicious foreigner and he was imprisoned until the fall of the Jacobins.
Pont-Saint-Martin, Loire-Atlantique, a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department, France
Quilly, Loire-Atlantique, a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department, France
He engaged the architect Jacques Lemercier, who was already responsible for the Sorbonne and the Cardinal's hôtel in Paris, the Palais Cardinal (now the Palais-Royal).
It was established on 26 December 1970 out of the Archdiocese of Lyon-Vienne and consists of the arrondissements of Saint-Étienne and Montbrison, thus constituting the greater part of the department of the Loire.
Parablennius sanguinolentus, the Rusty blenny or the Black Sea blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern Atlantic: Loire mouth, France to Morocco including the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
This town hosts the Abbaye de Fleury, also known as the Abbaye de Saint Benoît (Saint Benedict Abbey).
Sancé, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in France
The Loire makes its way in the opposite direction, draining into the Atlantic Ocean.
Sermaise, Maine-et-Loire, a commune of the Pays de la Loire region of France
The organisation includes almost all of the Ardèche department town councils and some town councils of the adjacent departments of Drôme and Loire, for a total of more than 300 town councils.
Saint-Sixte, Loire, commune in the Loire department in central France
Communications between the ATAR group and SNECMA, the newly formed Nationalised engine manufacturer, proved to be difficult and the design team soon moved to Decize on the River Loire, to improve communications with SNECMA and was re-named Aeroplanes G.Voisin, Groupe 'O' .
In the Second World War Volo served in a number of convoys, starting in September and October 1939 with two round trips between the Bristol Channel and the Loire.
King Louis XIV, his mother Queen Anne of Austria and prime minister Cardinal Mazarin sought refuge in the château of Sully-sur-Loire in March 1652 after being driven out of Paris during the revolt of the French nobility known as the Fronde.
He eventually settled in Taizé, which was a small desolate village just north of Cluny, the site of a historically influential Christian monastic foundation.
In Taizé lives the Taizé Community, a monastic, ecumenical, international community founded in 1940 by Frère Roger, which has today just over 100 brothers from many different countries and from different Christian traditions.
He commanded soldiers at a battle at La Charité-sur-Loire in late 1430 and died 3 October 1431 at the siege of Louviers, three weeks before the city's fall.
Torfou, Maine-et-Loire, a commune of the Pays de la Loire region of France
This type of the motte-and-bailey castle appeared in the 10th and 11th centuries between the Rhine and Loire rivers and eventually spread to most of western Europe and even to the area of the present Belarus.
They are based in the town of Avoine, Indre-et-Loire and their home stadium is the Stade Marcel Vignaud.
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Farmers donated barley, wheat, oats, timber, sheep and cattle to be sold for the fund, one town built and sold a house and the racehorse La Loire made $18,000 in a raffle.
Later the tradition was reinforced by a miracle recorded in the 10th century, when the walled town of Guérande, near the mouth of the Loire, prayed to St. Albinus for help and found their attackers miraculously defeated.
The Loire army won the greatest success of the French during the entire war at Coulmiers, and followed this with another victorious action at Patay; in both engagements General Chanzy's corps performed the best.
The company's history dates to 1856 when Lucien Arbel in association with the Deflaissieux brothers began business in Rive de Gier in the Loire area of France; in 1869 he founded the Forges de Couzon on the river Couzon in Rive de Gier.
Many of the sites where offerings to Borvo have been found are in Gaul: inscriptions to him have been found in Drôme at Aix-en-Diois, Bouches-du-Rhône at Aix-en-Provence, Gers at Auch, Allier at Bourbon-l'Archambault, Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Saône-et-Loire at Bourbon-Lancy, in Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Haute-Marne at Bourbonne-les-Bains and in Nièvre at Entrains-sur-Nohain.
The Château d'Essalois is a restored castle in the commune of Chambles in the Loire département of France, overlooking a dammed portion of the Loire River, Lake Grangent.
René Chenu, (1599–1672) was a long-time governor of the fortified towns of Oudon and Champtoceaux which dominated the Loire upstream.
The Château de Montreuil-Bellay is a historical building in the town of Montreuil-Bellay, département of Maine-et-Loire, France, first built on the site of a Gallo-Roman village high on a hill on the banks of the Thouet River.
The Château de Villandry is a castle-palace located in Villandry, in the département of Indre-et-Loire, France.
Since being replaced as MP for Loire-Atlantique by Marie-Odile Bouillé, he has moved to chairing the French Hospital Federation (FHF).
Her paternal uncle, François Autain, is a French Senator and member of Parti de gauche (Left Party) for Loire-Atlantique, as well as former Deputy Mayor of Bougue and former Secretary of State for Immigration, then for the Ministry of Defense during the presidency of François Mitterrand.
Édouard Alexandre Sain was born Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, on 13 May 1830, son of Paul-François-Toussaint Sain, a tax-collector, and Palmire-Ernestine Bouchet.
Sainte-Florine, a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France
Frédéric Demontfaucon (born 24 December 1973 in Le Creusot, Saône-et-Loire) is a judoka from France.
Gilbert was probably a native of France, deriving his name from the college of St Liphard at Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans.
Jacques Revaux (born Jacques Abel Jules Revaud, 11 July 1940 in Azay-sur-Cher, Indre-et-Loire) is a French songwriter most famous for his 1968 collaboration with singer Claude François on the song "Comme d'habitude" that singer-songwriter Paul Anka reworked into the English language as "My Way".
Fialin was born at Saint-Germain-Lespinasse (Loire), the son of a receiver of taxes, and was educated at Limoges.
He became well known in France in 1989 after being elected mayor of a village of Brittany, Saint-Coulitz (less than 400 inhabitants), and at this time, one out of only two black mayors in Metropolitan France (and the only black man in his city), the other was Auguste Senghor, mayor of Le May-sur-Èvre, a town (3,891 inhabitants) in the Maine-et-Loire département, from 1989 to 2008, when he became mayor of another town, Saint-Briac (Ille-et-Vilaine).
The nearby region has long been an area of contact and conflict between Breton culture and that of the neighbouring Loire valley, and consequently is rich with historic places, castles (Nantes castle), walled cities (Guerande), not to mention 19th century seaside resorts, such as Quiberon, and many typical Breton fishing villages (Pornichet).
La Vallon Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in France, which is located approximately 6 km north-northeast of Montbrison (Departement de la Loire,Rhone-Alpes); about 385 km south-southeast of Paria.
Lignon du Velay, a river in south-central France, right tributary of the Loire
Subsequent to the invasion of the Loire Viking fleet led by Rognvaldr in 919, he exiled himself and his son Alan, to England.
Born in La Talaudière in the département of Loire, Maurice Fleuret received his secondary education at the École normale d'instituteurs in Montbrison.
In 1902, L. Rougier, an ampelographer writing for Pierre Viala and Victor Vermorel's catalog of grape varieties speculated that Mornen noir was indigenous to the western Rhône-Alpes region in the area between the Rhone and upper Loire rivers.
Pierre Pinoncelli (born 15 April 1929, Saint-Étienne, Loire, France) is a performance artist most famous for damaging two of the eight copies of Fountain by Marcel Duchamp with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value.
After the bloody fight on the Sambre (57 BCE) Julius Caesar sent Publius Licinius Crassus with a single legion into the country of the Veneti, Redones, and other Celtic tribes between the Seine River and the Loire, all of whom submitted.
Saint-Valérien, Vendée, a commune in the French region of Pays-de-la-Loire