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14 unusual facts about Marly


Alexandre Bontemps

Alexandre succeeded him on his death in 1659, dying in office in 1701, by which time he was a count and marquis, holding several key offices controlling both the palaces and towns of Versailles and Marly, the Swiss Guard who guarded the King and his palaces, and the household of the Dauphin.

Anichkov Bridge

Guillaume Coustou's baroque marble horse tamers for Marly-le-Roi, the Chevaux de Marly, were resited at the opening to the Champs-Elysées, Paris, at the Revolution.

Edmond Tarbé des Sablons

Tarbé obtained by decree of 13 June 1889 the concession for a tram line between Saint-Germain and Marly-le-Roi, and between Rueil and Courbevoie, where it was connected with the tram from there to the Place de l'Etoile.

Genesius of Lyon

In September, 677, he assisted at an assembly held at Maslay-le-Roi or more probably Marly-le-Roi.

Jacques Caffieri

A large proportion of his brilliant achievement as a designer and chaser in bronze and other metals was executed for the crown at Versailles, Fontainebleau, Marly, Compiègne, Choisy and the Château de La Muette, and the crown, ever in his debt, still owed him money at his death.

Joseph Pellerin

Pellerin was born at Marly, near Versailles the 27 April 1684 and died 30 August 1782 at his château of Plainville in Picardy.

Marly-la-Ville

Also a devoted physicist, he tested the experimental ideas of Benjamin Franklin at his house, completing the first capture electrical charge from lightning.

He translated and published the works of Carl Linnaeus thus introducing Linnaean nomenclature in France.

Thomas-François Dalibard lived at 15 rue du Colonel Fabien, a classical eighteenth century mansion.

Michelle de Bonneuil

A friend of poets, she belonged to the anacreontic circle at Marly known as "la Caserne", a strong institution freely inspired by Freemasonry.

Rieul

Ebroin's supporters, which included Rieul, Praejectus, St. Agilbert of Paris, and St. Ouen of Rouen, held a council of bishops that sat in judgment on Leger, at Marly, near Paris.

Thomas-François Dalibard

Dalibard & Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, translated Franklin's proposal into French and in May 1752 they performed an experiment using a 40-foot-tall metal rod at Marly-la-Ville.

Venus Callipyge

It was sent to Versailles, then to Marly-le-Roi in 1695, where it was provided with additional marble draperies by Jean Thierry, not to offend an increasingly prudish public taste; it remained at Marly until the Revolution, when it found its way to the Jardin des Tuileries.

Vénus et Adonis

Desmarets had dedicated Vénus et Adonis to his long-time patron Louis XIV and set the prologue on the plains of Marly-le-Roi with Louis XIV's famous leisure residence, Château de Marly in the background.


Alexander Edward

He was then to travel to Paris and the low countries, visiting Versailles, Marly and St Cloud.

Anna Marly

In her youth Marly had worked as a ballet dancer in Monte Carlo, and been taught by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.

Before I Lay

"Movin' On (East Coast Flava Mix with Rap)" - written by Dave Hall, CeCe Peniston, Gordon Chambers, Qur'an Goodman, Taji Goodman, Tarik Dawson, Carl Harte, Marly Marl, and contains elements from "Hip Hop Ride (Q.Goodman, T.Goodman, T.Dawson, C.Harte, M.Marl)

Chant des Partisans

Anna Marly also wrote and performed a more introspective song, La Complainte du Partisan, which was later adapted and translated into English as "The Partisan".

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Henceforth, numerous royal commissions came his way for the petits appartements at the Château de Fontainebleau, for the Cabinet du Roi and the royal dining-room at Versailles, decorations for Marly, for the Cabinet des Médailles in the royal library in Paris, and others.

Château de Courances

His also is the fountain of Aréthuse, formerly surmounted by a marble nymph that had been sculpted in 1711 by Claude Poirier for Marly.

Come from the Shadows

In addition to her own compositions "Prison Trilogy", "Myths", and "Love Song to a Stranger", Baez included John Lennon's "Imagine", Anna Marly's "Song of the Partisan", and Mimi Fariña's "In the Quiet Morning (for Janis Joplin)".

Low Estate

Most notably, the Nouvelle Version also included a rendition of the Gun Club song "Fire Spirit" and Marly/d'Astier composition "The Partisan", both with the participation of Bertrand Cantat, as well as a re-recording of "Coal Black Horses", originally featured on the 16 Horsepower EP.

Marly Marley

Marly Marley (5 April 1938 – 10 January 2014) was a Brazilian actress.

Samuel Bernard

In order that the King would not have to stoop to receive the financier in an audience, the Controller-General of Finances, Nicolas Desmarets (1648-1721), carefully choreographed a meeting which took place at Marly.

The Loft Literary Center

Book Dealers in Dinkytown, Minnesota, the Loft was incorporated in 1975 with the support of bookstore owner Marly Rusoff and writers Jim Moore, Patricia Hampl, Phebe Hanson and Michael Dennis Browne.