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27 unusual facts about Meudon


Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Following the establishment of this committee, other countries created similar agencies, notably the French L’Etablissement Central de l’Aérostation Militaire in Meudon (now Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales), the Russian "Aerodynamic

Alexandre Guilmant

He taught there up until his death at his home in Meudon, near Paris, in 1911.

Bellevue funicular

In 1891, two businessmen from Meudon (Gabriel Thomas and Paul Houette, a local councillor), agreed to build a funicular to connect the Seine to the heights of Meudon and so to give walkers access to the Forest of Meudon.

Boun Oum

He died in Boulogne-Billancourt, France in 1981 and his ashes are buried at the Cimetiere de Trivaux in Meudon France,next to his wife Princess Bouaphanh na Champassak (b. 1920- d. 2013).

Château de Meudon

The former Château de Meudon, on a hill in Meudon, about 4 kilometres south-west of Paris, occupied the terraced steeply sloping site.

The main building was largely destroyed in a fire in 1871, and it is now the site of the Observatoire de Paris-Meudon.

Domenico del Barbieri

He joined the studio of Italian artists who worked with Primaticcio and Rosso Fiorentino at Fontainebleau and Meudon.

Egon Sendler

In 1970, he established the icons section of the Centre d'Études Russes Saint-Georges, located in Meudon, just outside of Paris.

Helene Schjerfbeck

The Imperial Senate gave her another scholarship, which she used to spend a couple of months in Meudon, and then a few more months in Concarneau, Brittany.

Henri-Alexandre Deslandres

In 1868, Pierre Janssen's solar observations had led him to report to the Académie des Sciences that It is no longer geometry and mechanics which dominate in astronomy but physics and chemistry. Such advice was sternly rejected by director of the Paris Observatory Urbain Le Verrier and the French government awarded Janssen a grant to establish an astrophysical observatory at Meudon on the outskirts of Paris with Janssen as the sole astronomer.

Honoré-Jean-Aristide Husson

Honoré Jean Aristide Husson (born in Paris on 1 July 1803, died in Meudon on 30 July 1864) was a French academic sculptor of the 19th century.

Jacques-François Ancelot

By the Revolution of July 1830 he lost at once his royal pension and his office as librarian at Meudon; and he was chiefly employed during the next ten years in writing vaudevilles and light dramas and comedies.

Lorenzo Peña

In early 1969 he married his class-mate María Teresa Alonso in Meudon (France); the couple have been living together ever since.

Louis Couperin

On 22 October 1655 he stood godfather to his sister's child at Chaumes-en-Brie; from July to October 1656 and around November 1658 he was frequently travelling to Meudon, where he was probably employed by Abel Servien, a diplomat and statesman.

Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon

Her older half-brother, the Dauphin, to whom she was close, allowed the couple to meet at his country estate at Meudon away from her husband and the court.

Mont-Louis Solar Furnace

The French chemist Félix Trombe and his team made an initial demonstration of a mirror of DCA in Meudon in 1946 to show the possibility of reaching high temperatures very quickly using highly concentrated sunlight.

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.

Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales

The ONERA’s historic roots are in the Paris suburb of Meudon, south of Paris.

Pierre Janssen

In 1875, Janssen was appointed director of the new astrophysical observatory established by the French government at Meudon, and set on foot there in 1876 the remarkable series of solar photographs collected in his great Atlas de photographies solaires (1904).

Reffye 75 mm cannon

The Reffye 75mm cannon (French: Canon de campagne de 5 de Reffye modèle 1873) was a French artillery piece of the 19th century, developed by the French artillery General Jean-Baptiste Verchère de Reffye, superintendent of the works at Meudon.

Reffye 85 mm cannon

The Reffye 85 mm cannon (French: "Canon de campagne de 7 de Reffye modèle 1870") was a French artillery piece of the 19th century, developed by the French artillery General Jean-Baptiste Verchère de Reffye, superintendent of the works at Meudon.

Russian Greek Catholic Church

Outside of Russia, there are Russian Catholic parishes and faith communities in San Francisco, New York, El Segundo, Denver, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Meudon, Paris, Chevetogne, Lyon, Berlin, Munich, Rome, Milan, and Singapore.

Serge Avedikian

After studies at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Meudon (France), he arrived in Paris in 1971 where he worked with the students of the Paris Conservatory.

SIMBAD

SIMBAD was created by merging the Catalog of Stellar Identifications (CSI) and the Bibliographic Star Index as they existed at the Meudon Computer Centre until 1979, and then expanded by additional source data from other catalogues and the academic literature.

Standard Athletic Club

In 1922, the historic decision to ensure a permanent home for the Club led to the purchase of the present grounds in Meudon.

Théâtre Lyrique

Unfortunately, Jules Seveste died unexpectedly on 30 June 1854 in Meudon near Paris.

Zbigniew Dłubak

In 1982, during the period of Martial law in Poland, he was allowed to leave the country and settled in Meudon near Paris.


Château d'Issy

The sculptor Auguste Rodin repurchased the pediment of the garden façade, as well as the avant-corps columns; he set up these pieces at his property of Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine).

Cyril Houri

Cyril Lionel Houri (born April 1969 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a New York-based entrepreneur who has founded two geolocation technology companies: InfoSplit, Inc. and Mexens Technology Inc. (now called Navizon.

Maria A. Barucci

Maria Antonella Barucci is an astronomer at the Observatory-Meudon,Paris.

Mikhail Gavrilov

After that he emigrated to Romania, and then moved to France, graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris. Gavrilov taught at the Russian school in Paris and Saint George boarding in Meudon, led the research and education activities at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

The Spasm Band

In March 2008 they recorded their second album Bird Head Son in just two days in Meudon, France, produced by Antoine Rajon.

Vanora Bennett

She also studied Russian at Voronezh State University in the former Soviet Union and at Le Centre d'Études Russes du Potager du Dauphin, a centre established by White Russian emigres outside Paris, at Meudon.

Vasily Fesenkov

After graduating from the Kharkov University (1911) he entered the Sorbonne, where he defended a dissertation for the Doctor of Science degree in 1914; in between he interned at the Paris, Meudon, and Nice observatories.