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12 unusual facts about Meaux


Battle of Mello

The battle was in fact two separate engagements; a major battle at Mello and a smaller one at the nearby town of Meaux, which the battle is also sometimes named after.

Charles Étienne Louis Camus

Charles Étienne Louis Camus (25 August 1699 – 2 February 1768), was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Crécy-en-Brie, near Meaux.

Château du Raincy

The Château du Raincy was constructed between 1643 and 1650 by Jacques Bordier, indendant des finances, on the site of a Benedectine priory on the road from Paris to Meaux, in the present-day commune of Le Raincy in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of France.

Chelles Abbey

The abbey stood in the Val-de-Marne near Paris (in modern Meaux) until it fell victim to the disestablishment of the Catholic Church in 1792 during the French Revolution and was dismantled.

Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine

When the House of Bar, which ruled in Upper Lorraine, became extinct in 1033, with the death of his cousin Frederick III, Conrad made him duke of both duchies, so that he could assist in the defence of the territory against Odo II, count of Blois, Meaux, Chartres, and Troyes (the later Champagne).

Guy Gaucher

He was named Bishop of Meaux, 27 August 1986, consecrated on the 19 October 1986 by the archbishop of Paris, cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger.

Jacquerie

The bourgeoisie of Beauvais, Senlis, Paris, Amiens and Meaux, sorely pressed by the court party, accepted the Jacquerie, and the urban underclass were sympathetic.

The final events transpired at Meaux, where the impregnable citadel was crowded with knights and their ladies.

Jouarre Abbey

As part of its Celtic heritage, Jouarre was established as a "double community," i.e., a community of monks as well as nuns, both under the rule of the abbess, who in 1225 was granted immunity from interference by the bishop of Meaux, answering only to the pope.

Pierre Tabart

Pierre Tabart (Chinon, 1645 – Meaux, 1716) was a French composer and maître de chapelle.

Saint Fiacre

Seeking greater solitude, he left his native land and sought refuge in France, at Meaux.

He approached St Faro, the Bishop of Meaux, to whom he made known his desire to live a life of solitude in the forest.


Canal de Meaux à Chalifert

The Canal de Meaux à Chalifert is a canal in northern France connecting the Marne River at Meaux to the Marne at Chalifert.

Coulommiers

Canton of Coulommiers, a French administrative division, located in the arrondissement of Meaux, in the Seine-et-Marne département (Île-de-France région)

Cumul des mandats

This rule was more or less upheld by Jacques Chirac during the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin for the 2002-2007 term, with a few notable exceptions (Jean-François Copé was mayor of Meaux, Nicolas Sarkozy was President of the Hauts-de-Seine General Council); for instance, Philippe Douste-Blazy had to step down from the Toulouse mayorship upon joining the government.

Dalotel DM-165

The aircraft was based at Meaux-Esbly airfield, to the west of Paris, for several years and was then sold to a pilot owner in the United Kingdom.

Jeanne Sully

She died in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, on 28 June 1995 at the home for actors at Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne.

Mathieu Gascongne

In addition, one document describes him as a priest of the Meaux diocese, and also associates him with the cathedral in Tours; it also names him as a singer in the royal chapel in 1517–1518.

Meaux Abbey

Meaux Abbey (archaic, also referred to as Melsa) was a Cistercian Abbey founded in 1151 by William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle (Count of Aumale), Earl of York and 4th lord of Holderness, near Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Milton, Louisiana

Early Acadian landowners in the area included Francois Broussard, son of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil; Jean Bernard; Pierre Vincent; Michel Meaux; Jean-Baptiste Trahan; and Joseph Boudreaux.

Slymenstra Hymen

She also performed her sideshow act with the Brothers Grim Sideshow and Lucha VaVOOM, the wrestling/burlesque show, under the alias of Danyella De Meaux.

Surprise of Meaux

Taking as his pretext that the king was threatened by Italian plans to capture him, on 28 September 1567 Condé invaded the château de Montceaux in Brie, near Meaux, in order to arrest the king's person.