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9 unusual facts about Lunéville


Château de La Petite-Pierre

Hugo III, Count of Lützelstein (Perhaps also Lunéville) (d.a. 1280/99), married Elisabeth (d.a. 1271), daughter of Simon III, Count of Saarbrücken.

The counts have used the title Graf von Lützelstein, alter also Comte de Petite-Pierre, meaning basically the same, also Comte de Lunéville (in Lorraine), which might be due to a confusion of transferral of power at some point.

Just de Noailles

Returning to France, he was presented to the delegation, and lost 1 October 1821, in the 2nd Arrondissement of Meurthe (Lunéville), with 51 votes against 107 with the elected official, Mr. Laruelle.

Kazimierz Krasiński

In the youth he stayed on the court of King Louis XV and then educated on the Military Cadet School of Stanisław Leszczyński in Lunéville.

Lorraine 37L

In 1939 and 1940 the type had been mainly produced in the Lorraine factory at Lunéville.

Lunéville

The Treaty of Lunéville was signed in the "Treaty house", one of the houses built up against the chateau gardens of Luneville on 9 February 1801 between the French Republic and the Austrian Empire by Count Ludwig von Cobenzl, and Joseph Bonaparte.

Richard's Pipit

This bird was named after the French naturalist Monsieur Richard of Lunéville.

Schwetzingen Castle

Most of it is the work of then-celebrated French artist Barthélemy Guibal and had previously adorned the Lunéville palace of the deposed Polish king Stanisław Leszczyński.

Titof

Titof (short for Christophe), born on October 5, 1973 in Lunéville, is the pseudonym of a French pornographic film actor who began performing in 1999.


Antonio Tavira y Almazán

He was very good friend of Minister Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, suspicious both to the Spanish Inquisitors at the end of the 18th century of comptent and connivence with the French regalist, "constitutionalist" and "bonapartist" Bishop Henry Grégoire, Abbé Grégoire, (Vého, (Trois-Évêchés), near Lunéville, France, 4 December 1750 - Paris, 20 May 1831).

Château de La Petite-Pierre

Hugo I of Blieskastel (d.a. 1220), Count of Lützelstein or Lunéville (or both), second son of Folmar I (d.a. 1179), Count of Blieskastel with Clementia of Metz.

Friedrich Karl Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe

The subsequent Peace of Pressburg, signed on 26 December 1805, reinforced the earlier treaties of Campo Formio and Lunéville.

Jean François de Saint-Lambert

Saint-Lambert spent the winter quarter in Lunéville in 1745-46, and according to François-Antoine Devaux, he became at that time the lover of the Marquise de Boufflers.

Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine

Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (Charles Alexandre Emanuel de Lorraine) (12 December 1712 in Lunéville – 4 July 1780 in Tervuren) was a Lorraine-born Austrian general and soldier, governor and de facto sovereign of the Austrian Netherlands, and sometime duke of Lorraine.

Vénus et Adonis

After several years in exile as the court composer for Philip V of Spain, Desmarets took up an appointment as master of music at the court of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine in Lunéville.


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