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Early European colonists, who would later become known as Acadians, were French subjects primarily from the Pleumartin to Poitiers in the Vienne département of west-central France.
Adrien Tixier (31 January 1893, Folles (Haute-Vienne) – 18 February 1946, Paris) was a French politician, diplomat, and Free French ambassador to the United States.
North-east of Vienne and north of Cularo (modern Grenoble), is a major healing sanctuary at the modern town of Aix-les-Bains.
Amalric de Lusignan or Amaury II de Lusignan, Prince of Tyre (c. 1272 – June 5, 1310, Nicosia), of the Lusignan family, was a son of Hugh III of Cyprus and Isabella of Ibelin.
The king of France was installed in the Château de Taillebourg, which overlooked the bridge over the Charente, a bottleneck and strategic passage between Saint-Jean-d'Angély and Poitou in the north and Saintes (which belonged to Lusignan) and Aquitaine in the South.
Brux, Vienne, a commune in the Vienne department in western France
Châlus, a commune in the Haute-Vienne département of France
The Château de Chambonneau is a castle in the commune of Gizay in the Vienne département of France that still shows good parts of the original "chateau-fort".
Château de Rochechouart is a thirteenth-century French castle, located at the top of the confluence of the Grêne and Vayres rivers in the commune of Rochechouart within the département of Haute-Vienne.
During his time as intendant, he led Zagreb's opera company on performances in Venice, Florence and Rome in April 1942 and to Vienne in 1943.
In 1877 Arnaudeau was Conservative candidate in the senatorial by-election for Vienne that followed the death of Louis Olivier Bourbeau, former Minister of Education.
After eight years of peace Thrasamund succeeded to the throne, arrested Eugenius and condemned him to death, but commuted the sentence into exile at Vienne, near Albi (Languedoc), where the Arian Alaric was king.
In north and central France, too, several very large castles ended up as joint enfeoffments, such as the giant castle of Chauvigny (Vienne).
The station allows passengers to regional trains from Bourgoin-Jallieu, La Tour-du-Pin, Saint-André-le-Gaz, Vienne, Valencia, Mâcon and Villefranche-sur-Saône, according to their final destination, to use the new station as additional entry point in the center of Lyon.
About the time of Glaphyra’s death, Augustus removed Herod Archelaus as Ethnarch because of his cruelty, and banished him to Vienne in Gaul.
Henri Bonnet (26 May 1888 Châteauponsac (Haute-Vienne) – 25 October 1978 Paris) was a French politician, diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1944 to 1954.
He confirmed the donation by one of his vassals of the church of Mezeaux to the abbey of Saint-Cyprien and himself granted the abbey the woodland and the public road between Lusignan and Poitiers.
Hugh V (died 8 October 1060), called the Fair or the Pious, was the fifth Lord of Lusignan and Lord of Couhé.
The village was one of many Alsatian communities located near the frontier to be evacuated to Haute-Vienne, in this case to the village of Bessines-sur-Gartempe.
At the age of eighteen he joined the French Oratory and taught for a time in the colleges of his congregation at Pézenas, and Montbrison and at the Seminary of Vienne.
Egon Schiele ou la décadence de Vienne, 1890-1918 (biography), Ed.
Louis I of Chalon (died 1366) Seigneur d'Arguel, married Marguerite of Vienne in 1363 (daughter of the Seigneur de Pymont Philippe de Vienne)
Born Marie Louis Jules Paufichet in Poitiers, Vienne, he starred in the French films Les Visiteurs du Soir and Arsene Lupin, Detective.
Born as Léonne-Julie Bournonville in Brussels, (then the Austrian Netherlands), in 1746 or 1748 as the child of the French actors Louis-Amable Bournonville and Jeanne Evrard, members of the theatre truope of Charles-Simon Favart, she accompanied her parents to Lyon in the troup of Noverre in 1759-1760 and debuted in La Ciaconne by Jean Dupré in Vienne in 1765.
Die Waldverderber und ihre Feinde, Berlin, 1841, 8th re-edition of Johann Friedrich Judeich (1828-1894) and Hinrich Nitsche (1845-1902) under the title Lehrbuch der mitteleuropäischen Insektenkunde, Vienne, 1885, with a biography.
The town is twinned with Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche in Haute-Vienne because the population of La Wantzenau was evacuated there at the start of the war with Germany in 1939.
Leo V, King of Armenia (1342 – 1393), of the House of Lusignan; last Latin king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
Martin's Abbey, Ligugé, is a Benedictine monastery in the present commune of Ligugé in the département of Vienne, and in the diocese of Poitiers, and one of the earliest monastic foundations in France.
Maisonneuve, Vienne, a commune of the Vienne département, in France
Pope Leo I had regulated the boundaries of the ecclesiastical provinces of Arles and Vienne: under the latter he left the Dioceses of Valence, Tarentaise, Geneva and Grenoble, but all the other dioceses in this district were made subordinate to Arles.
Marie of Lusignan or Marie I de Lusignan (born c. 1223 in Melle; died in Poitou, October 1, 1260; buried at the Abbey of Foucarmont), was the only child and daughter of Raoul II of Lusignan and his second wife, Yolande de Dreux.
Mary of Lusignan (1381 - 4 September 1404) was the second wife but first Queen consort of King Ladislaus of Naples.
Contrary to what is widely stated in books and maps, Mount Gargan is not the highest point in Haute-Vienne; the forest of Crozat and the puy de Lauzat, 25 kilometres to the north-east near Nedde, are higher, at 777 metres above sea level.
He was received with great enthusiasm at Avignon, Montpellier and other cities, held a synod at Vienne in January 1119, and was planning to hold a general council to settle the investiture contest when he died at Cluny.
Reginald II, Count Palatine of Burgundy and Count of Mâcon, Vienne and Oltingen, was born in 1061; he was the eldest son of William I of Burgundy and brother to Stephen I of Burgundy, his successor, as well as to Pope Callixtus II.
Before the French Revolution it was a suffragan diocese of the archbishopric of Vienne and included the deanery or see at Savoy, which in 1779, was made a bishopric in its own right, with the see at Chambéry.
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The chapter-abbey of Saint-Martin de Miséré, whence originated many Augustinian priories, and the school of the priory of Villard Benoît at Pontcharra, were important during twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
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Domninus, the first Bishop of Grenoble known to history, attended the Council of Aquileia in 381.
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The Benedictines and Augustinians founded at an early date numerous priories in the diocese, that of Vizille dating from 994, but during St. Hugh's episcopal administration, monastic life attained a fuller development.
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.
Saints Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician were martyrs put to death under Emperor Marcus Aurelius at Vienne, Gaul.
Sarapo died at the side of the road in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, following an automobile accident on 28 August 1970.
Thierry Mutin is a French singer of classical music and songwriter (born in Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne), famous for his 1988 hit single "Sketch of Love".
Lothair II, his heir, received only the western Lower Burgundian parts (bishoprics of Lyon, Vienne, Vivarais and Uzès) which were bordering his western Upper Burgundy (remnants of his original Burgundian possessions), while Louis II received the whole rest of the Kingdom of Provence.
The Battle of Vouillé or Vouglé (from Latin Campus Vogladensis) was fought in the northern marches of Visigothic territory, at Vouillé, Vienne, (Gaul), in the spring of 507 between the Franks commanded by Clovis and the Visigoths of Alaric II, the conqueror of Spain.
In 1215 when the Emperor Frederick II sought to make his power effective in the Kingdom of Burgundy, he granted to William at Metz the whole "Kingdom of Arles and Vienne", probably referring to the viceroyalty of the kingdom.
The Château de Lusignan (in Lusignan, Vienne département, France) was the seat of the Lusignan family, Poitevin Marcher Lords, who distinguished themselves in the First Crusade and held the crowns of two Crusader kingdoms, the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Cyprus, and even claimed the title King of Armenia.