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unusual facts about Mézières-en-Drouais


Sarah Monod

Pastor of Marsauceux in the commune of Mézières-en-Drouais, Eure, of Mouilleron-en-Pareds, Vendée and chaplain of the Diaconesses de Reuilly.


2012 French Figure Skating Championships

The Junior Championships took place from 24–26 February 2012 in Charleville-Mézières.

André-Joseph Lafitte-Clavé

He was a graduate of the Ecole royale du génie de Mézières engineering school.

Antoine Louis Dugès

Antoine Louis Dugès (December 19, 1797 – May 1, 1838) was a French obstetrician and naturalist born in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes.

Astou Traoré

Astou Traoré (born 30 April 1981) is a Senegalese women's basketball power forward with Charleville-Mézières in France.

Basil Twist

He graduated from the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mézières, France.

Charles, Prince of Rochefort

He married Eléonore Eugénie de Béthisy de Mézières, younger daughter of Eugène Marie de Béthisy, Marquis de Mézières, and Eléonore Oglethorpe, like her sisters, a loyal and active Jacobite, who was in turn a daughter of Theophilus Oglethorpe, an English soldier and MP.

Charleville musket

While it is more correctly called a French infantry musket or a French pattern musket, these muskets later became known as "Charleville muskets", after the armory in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes, France.

Charleville-Mézières

The Gare de Charleville-Mézières railway station offers connections to Paris (by TGV), Reims, Lille, Metz and regional destinations.

Claude de Berlaymont

His father died in 1578, and in 1579, his oldest brother, Gilles, killed at the Siege of Maastricht; Claude succeeded his brother as governor of Charleville.

Claude Herbulot

He was born in Charleville-Mézières in 1908 in the Ardennes and his earliest works were on the lepidopteran fauna of the district.

Denzil Meuli

He also held chaplaincies in several parishes in France (including Neuilly-sur-Seine, Charleville-Mezieres, Armentieres and at the Walburgeschule in Menden, Germany) while collecting material for his doctorate.

Franz von Sickingen

For this service he was made imperial chamberlain and councillor, and in 1521 he led an expedition into France, which ravaged Picardy, but was beaten back from Mézières and forced to retreat.

Frédéric Rimbaud

In October 1852, Rimbaud, then 38, was transferred to Mézières when he met his future wife then 27, Marie Catherine Vitalie Cuif (10 March 1825-16 November 1907), while on a Sunday stroll.

Gustave Doret

He was also the founder of the Théâtre du Jorat, in Mézières.

Henri, Duke of Montpensier

Henri was born at Mézières, the son of François de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier, and of his wife Renée d'Anjou, marquise de Mézières.

Jean Follain

In 1951 he gave up his career as a business lawyer and was appointed to the post of judge (magistrate) of the High Court in Charleville.

Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette

For his early education he proceeded first to the college of Charleville, and afterwards to that of Reims.

Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (May 6, 1769 – January 16, 1834), French mathematician, was born at Mézières, where his father was a bookseller.

Le Bateau ivre

Rimbaud, then aged 16, wrote the poem in the summer of 1871 at his childhood home in Charleville in Northern France.

Michel Fourniret

She disappeared in 1989 from the railway station of Charleville-Mézières, and her body was recovered from the estate of Fourniret with his assistance.

Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista

In 1369 Philip de Mezières (also known as Filippo Maser), the Chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Cyprus, gave to the school a piece of the true cross which it still owns to this day.


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