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4 unusual facts about Loup


Le Bar-sur-Loup

On the inside, one can see an altarpiece painted by Ludovico Brea dating to the 16th century as well as statues from the 17th century.

Rivière-du-Loup

This name may have come from a native tribe known as "Les Loups" or from the many seals, known in French as loup-marin (sea wolves), once found at the river's mouth.

Robert I, Count of Troyes

Lay abbot of Saint-Loup, he was mentioned for the first time on 25 October 874, when he appeared in a charter of Charles the Bald ceding Chaource, in Tonnerre, to the abbey.

View from the Window at Le Gras

It was created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes and shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, seen from a high window.


Alphonse Couturier

Alphonse Couturier (Liberal politician) (1902–1995), a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Rivière-du-Loup

Antonio Valverde y Cosío

In June 1720, Villasur, chosen to lead that expedition, went with 100 men, between them many Pueblo, to the confluence of the Loup and North Platte River in Nebraska.

Châtillon-sur-Marne

Here also was born Reynald of Châtillon, called "Le Loup" (the Wolf) by Muslims, who went to the Holy Land on the Second Crusade and remained there for the rest of his life.

Deep Water, West Virginia

However, according to local legend as recounted by H. Reid in The Virginian Railway (Kalmbach, 1961), it was named by Squire James Galsepy Kincaid and other locals on a rainy day in 1871 as a commentary on the standing groundwater outside the new post office along Loup Creek.

Étienne Jeanneau

On 14 June 1709 Jeanneau was granted a commission as a court officer and notary for the large territory encompassing Grande-Anse, Rivière-Ouelle, Kamouraska, Rivière-du-Loup, and Port-Joli.

Josune Bereziartu

Bain de Sang in St Loup, Switzerland, had its first ascent (FA) by Fred Nicole and was the third 9a route in the world.

Julie-Marie Parmentier

She has also appeared in such films as Sheitan (2005), 36 vues du pic Saint-Loup (2009) and Les Adieux à la reine (2012).

La Musica Lirica

Recent conductors, stage directors and vocal faculty include Alberto Zedda, Joseph Rescigno, Candace Evans, Francois Loup, Dejan Miladinovic, Ubaldo Fabbri, Julia Faulkner, Mary Anne Scott, Karen Peeler, John DeHaan, Kathy Kraulik, Brooks Hafey, Robert Breault, Emily Williams, Jeffrey Price and Dennis Jesse.

Lew Archer

Le Loup de la côte Ouest (2002, Hugo Santiago from the short story "Guilt-Edged Blonde") starring James Faulkner as Lew Millar.

Lizzie Brocheré

In 2001 the then 16-year-old Brocheré made her leap to the big screen as Jeanne in Hugo Santiago's Le Loup de la côte ouest (English title: The Wolf of the West Coast).

Louis Paradis

After he obtained his Degree in graphic design from CEGEP of Rivière-du-Loup, he learned the craft of comic book especially by observing the work of artists like John Buscema, Harold Foster, Burne Hogarth, Jean Giraud dit Moebius, Jack Kirby, Barry Windsor-Smith, and also André Juillard.

Nebraska Outback

The outback is connected with the rest of Nebraska by way of four Nebraska byways: Bridges to Buttes Byway (Highway 20), the Outlaw Trail (Highway 12) and small sections of the Loup Rivers Scenic Byway (Highways 91/11), and the Sandhills Journey (Highway 2) in Blaine County.

Nicolas Vanier

Loup is about the life of the Evens tribe in North Eastern arctic Siberia, in the Verkhoïansk mountain range, who live by raising large herds of reindeer (caribou), which involves protecting them from attacks by wolves.

Société des chemins de fer du Québec

Chemin de fer de la Matapédia et du Golfe (former CN Mont Joli and Matane Subdivisions, operates between Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec and Campbellton, New Brunswick and from Mont-Joli to Matane, Quebec.

Susana Seivane

In France she has performed in concert in Paris, Nantes, Lyons, Les Irlandays, Juvisy sur Orge, the Festival du Bout du Monde and the Festival de Saint-Loup in Guingamp.

Télé-Québec

Télé-Québec (and its predecessor, Radio-Québec) was also assigned channel 2 in Rivière-du-Loup, channel 10 in Lithium Mines and channel 21 in Mont-Laurier.

Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac

The cities of importance close to Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac are Rivière-du-Loup, at 60 km to the north-west, Trois-Pistoles at 65 km to the north, Rimouski at 110 km north-east, and Edmundston in New Brunswick, at 60 km to the south-west.

Terret noir

The minimum rises to 11.5% if the wine has a cru designation--meaning that it was grown in the specially recognized vineyards around Corbières, Mejanelle, St-Christol, Vérargues, Montpeyrous, Pic St-Loup, Quatourze, Saint-Drézéry, St-Georges d'Orques, St-Saturnin and the extinct volcano Montagne de la Clape.

Verlet

Verlet integration, a technique for computer simulation of molecular dynamics developed by Loup Verlet


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