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unusual facts about Melle, Deux-Sèvres


Louis III de La Trémoille

He was charged, in 1567, with the command of the Loire Valley, served under the Duke of Anjou and was killed at the siege of Melle, March 25, 1577, at the moment when the city fell.


Actant

Étienne Souriau, Les deux cent mille situations dramatiques, in French 1950.

Aegean civilizations

Aegean vases have been exhibited both at Sèvres and Neuchatel since about 1840, the provenance (i.e. source or origin) being in the one case Phylakope in Melos, in the other Cephalonia.

Alexandre Brongniart

Brongniart was also the founder of the Musée national de Céramique-Sèvres (National Museum of Ceramics), having been director of the Sèvres Porcelain Factory from 1800 to 1847.

Café de Flore

In his essay "A Tale of Two Cafes" and his book Paris to the Moon, American writer Adam Gopnik mused over the possible explanations of why the Flore had become, by the late 1990s, much more fashionable and popular than its rival, Les Deux Magots, despite the fact that the latter cafe was associated with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and other famous thinkers of the 1940s and 1950s.

Charles Forbes René de Montalembert

Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (March 18, 1810 London - March 13, 1870 Paris) was a French publicist, historian and Count of Montalembert, Deux-Sèvres.

Charles Noke

Noke's greatest achievement was the creation of a range of experimental transmutation glazed wares that are at best as good as anything produced at Sèvres, Copenhagen, Dresden or even in the Far East.

Colombey-les-Deux-Églises

A memorial museum was inaugurated in October 2008 by Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel.

This joint Franco-German act marked the fiftieth anniversary of talks in Colombey on 14 September 1958 between Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, as part of the process of post-war reconciliation.

Conference of London

Bekir Sami Kunduh, representative of Ankara, insisted that the delegate from Istanbul could not enter the negotiations, and rejected the use of Sêvres as the basis of the talks.

Denys Puech

1881 and 1883 saw his first successes, when he twice won the second prize in the prix de Rome contest, for his Tyrtaeus singing the Messanians (Tyrtée chantant les Messéniennes) and Diagoras dying for joy on learning of his two victorious children's triumph at the Olympic Games (Diagoras mourant de joie en apprenant le triomphe de ses deux enfants vainqueurs aux Jeux Olympiques) respectively.

Deux-Ponts

Breguet Deux-Ponts, a family of 1940s and 1950s French double-deck transport aircraft produced by Breguet

Dinorah

The story takes place near the rural town of Ploërmel and is based on two Breton tales by Émile Souvestre, "La Chasse aux trésors" and "Le Kacouss de l'Armor", both published separately in 1850 in the Revue des deux mondes.

Doudou Gouirand

With the very successful Nino Rota/Fellini album (Deux Z/Harmonia Mundi, 1995), acclaimed arrangement and composition work done around Nino Rota's film music, he explored a more European and typically Mediterranean idiom, while keeping a lot of improvisation.

Émile Lessore

In 1851, Lessore began his ceramics work in Sèvres, a southwestern suburb of Paris, France known for its porcelain manufacture.

Emmanuel Larcenet

Emmanuel Larcenet, also known as Manu Larcenet, studied graphic art at the Sèvres lycée and then went on to art school.

Entre Deux Guerres

L'Entre Deux Guerres is a French expression (~ between two wars) which refers to the interwar period between World War I and World War II (1918 - 1939).

Floc'h

on a collection of cartoons inspired by the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jamais deux sans trois.

Gare de Parthenay

The Gare de Parthenay, or Parthenay railway station, is the railway station in the town of Parthenay, in the department of Deux-Sèvres in western France.

Gregoria

Cyril Mango in Deux études sur Byzance et la Perse Sassanide (1985) speculated they were descendants of Heraclius of Edessa, a general under Leo I and Zeno.

Guillaume de Tonquédec

He was made famous in 1991 as school-boy and Claude Jade's son Jules in Tableau d'honneur, followed by his Serge along with Juliette Binoche in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue and Claude Zidi's Deux starring Gérard Depardieu.

Honoré Armand de Villars

Don Honoré Armand de Villars, 2e duc de Villars (4 October 1702, Paris - May 1770, Aix), Duke and Peer of France, Prince of Martigues, Grandee of Spain, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Viscount of Melun, Marquis of la Melle, Count of Rochemiley, was a French nobleman, soldier and politician.

Horst Szymaniak

Horst "Schimmi" Szymaniak (born 29 August 1934 in Oer-Erkenschwick – died 9 October 2009 in Melle) was a former German football player.

Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac

Then, after a short time in Liebig's laboratory at Gießen, and in the Sèvres porcelain factory, he became in 1841 a professor of chemistry at the academy of Geneva.

Jean-Louis Hamon

His lack of success led Hamon to accept a job as a designree in the Sèvres porcelein factory, but an enamelled casket designed by him attracted notice at the London International Exhibition of 1851.

Jeunes filles en serre chaude

Its protagonists are young women at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvres, a suburb of Paris, at the time a girls-only school.

Les deux aveugles

A complete performance of Les deux aveugles (followed by Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins) forms part of the 1996 television film Offenbachs Geheimnis, directed by István Szabó.

Les Deux Plateaux

Les Deux Plateaux, more commonly known as the Colonnes de Buren, is a highly controversial art installation created by the French artist Daniel Buren in 1985–1986.

Luton Hoo

At the centre of the house the massive Blue hall displayed further tapestries, Louis XV furniture, and Sèvres porcelain.

Maria Kochetkova

Kochetkova performed the Grand Pas de Deux in San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker which was broadcast by PBS in 2008 and won the solo gold medal in the NBC series Superstars of Dance which was watched by over 10 million viewers.

Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie

Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie (1773, Sèvres - 1851, Versailles) was a French painter of the Troubadour style.

Marie, Countess of Eu

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.

Metre

The Metre Convention (Convention du Mètre) of 1875 mandated the establishment of a permanent International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM: Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) to be located in Sèvres, France.

Móric Fischer de Farkasházy

It, however, became a veritable art institute, comparing favorably with the famous porcelain establishments of Sèvres, Meissen, and Berlin.

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz

His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where he had been taken to live with some friends of his mother.

Paris Métro Line 9

The line links Pont de Sèvres in Boulogne in the west with Montreuil in the east via the city center of Paris, creating a parabola type shape to its route.

Perfetti Van Melle

Perfetti Van Melle bills itself as the third largest confectionery manufacturer in the world after Kraft Foods (owners of Cadbury) and Mars, Incorporated (owners of Wrigley).

Phyllis Zouzounis

In 1987, Zouzounis and her Jim Penpraze, began their operation at Dry Creek, Deux Amis Winery, which specializes in Zinfandels.

Plastered in Paris

The two return to the Commissioner admitting defeat when it is revealed the X is actually the Sûreté's new physical training instructor who was giving the Inspector and Deux Deux a workout.

Prototype

In the International System of Units (SI), the only prototype remaining in current use is the International Prototype Kilogram, a solid platinum-iridium cylinder kept at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (International Bureau of Weights and Measures) in Sèvres France (a suburb of Paris) that by definition is the mass of exactly one kilogram.

Qui de nous deux

Qui de Nous Deux (2003) is an album by French singer-song-writer Matthieu Chedid in his persona as -M-.

Ranger's House

However the larger part of it consists of an eclectic mix of decorative art, including Renaissance jewellery, medieval, Byzantine and Renaissance ivories, tapestries, furniture and Sèvres porcelain, as well as a life size marble sculpture by Bergonzoli of an angel kissing a semi-nude woman entitled "The Love of Angels".

Sakıp Sabancı Museum

An impressive collection of 19th century French porcelain, including large numbers of Sèvres vases, and German porcelain produced in Berlin and Vienna are among the most valuable items in the collection.

Stuart Bailey

In Alphabetical Order: File Under: Graphic Design, Schools, or Werkplaats Typografie, by Paul Elliman, Anthony Froshaug, Melle Hammer, Robin Kinross, Norman Potter and Stuart Bailey (editor), 2003, NAi Publishers.

Taxile Doat

Starting in 1895, Doat began working in a house at 47 rue Brancas in the village of Sèvres.

TREXCO

Perfetti Van Melle: The Perfetti Van Melle company bears the names of its founders, the brothers Ambrogio and Egidio Perfetti, and Izaak van Melle.

Two Mountains

Lake of Two Mountains, Lac des Deux Montagnes, lake in the Greater Montreal Area

Two Years' Vacation

Deux ans de vacances is the first book Shiori Shiomiya reads from the shelves of the school library during a flashback to her childhood in the anime The World God Only Knows.

Wadsworth Atheneum

The museum is home to approximately 50,000 objects, including ancient Roman, Greek, and Egyptian bronzes; paintings from the Renaissance, Baroque, and French and American Impressionist eras, among others; 18th-century French porcelains (including Meissen and Sèvres); Hudson River School landscapes; early American clothing and decorations; early African-American art and historical artifacts; and more.


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