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7 unusual facts about Marcellin


Château d'Essalois

The seigniory which included Chambles, Périgneux, Saint-Marcellin and Saint-Rambert passed in the 17th century to the lords of Sury-le-Comtal, the De la Veuhes, and through them to the Sourdis family.

Jacques Aymar-Vernay

Jacques Aymar-Vernay (born in 1662) was a stonemason from the village of Saint Marcellin in Dauphiné, France, who reintroduced dowsing with a divining rod into popular usage in Europe.

Marcellin

Marcellin College, a Marist Catholic secondary boys' school situated in Bulleen, Victoria, Australia

Marcellin College, Auckland, an integrated, co-educational college in Royal Oak, Auckland, New Zealand

Marcellin College Randwick, a systemic Roman Catholic, secondary, day school for boys, located in Randwick, a south-eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Saint-Félicien cheese

The cheese is a close cousin of another dauphinois cheese, Saint-Marcellin, and bears a similar texture and taste, though it can be almost twice as large in diameter.

Saint-Marcellin

Named after the small town of Saint-Marcellin (Isère), it is produced in a geographical area corresponding to part of the former Dauphiné province (now included in the Rhône-Alpes région).


Charlotte-Catherine Patin

Relatio de litteris apologeticis, published in the contemporary German scientific review Acta Eruditorum (1691), where she responded to a critic of a work of her father on the Marcellin tomb that they had critiqued.

Marcellin College, Auckland

Most of the former Pah estate contiguous with Marcellin College is now owned by the Auckland Council and is maintained as a park known as "Monte Cecilia Park" (largely located in the suburb of Hillsborough).

Marcellin Gaha Djiadeu

Marcellin Gaha Djiadeu (born March 24, 1982 in Bafang) is a professional Cameroonian footballer currently playing as Player-Coach for Unisport de Bafang.

The John Berne School

The John Berne School is owned and operated by the Marist Brothers, an order founded in France during the early 19th century by St Marcellin Champagnat.


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