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4 unusual facts about Mirabeau


Henry de Beaume

According to one source, he was a member of the community of friars in Mirabeau when they accepted the Observant reform then growing among the Friars Minor.

Mirabeau, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

It's intensity in Mirabeau was V on the MSK scale (Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale) (sleeping people wake up, objects fall).

Mirabeau, Vaucluse

It was in existence when a papal bull of Pope Gelasius II in 1199 confirmed Mirabel as a possession of the abbey Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.

Fifty years later, a bull of Pope Alexander III renewed the rights of the Benedictines of Mont Andaon over Mirabello, with obligation to serve the priory consecrated to the Beate Mariae Magdalena de Ponte Cantus Pernicis.


Canton of Marseille-La Belle-de-Mai

It is composed of the part of the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille south of an imaginary line along boulevard Mirabeau, boulevard National until rue Hoche (which is excluded), rue Jean-Christofol, rue Belle-de-Mai, rue Loubon until rue Barsotti, rue Ricard, rue Bonhomme, rue Joseph-Cabasson, traverse Bon-Secours until the border with the 14th arrondissement.

Canton of Marseille-Verduron

It then follows this road until route de la Gavotte which it follows until the commune of Pennes-Mirabeau and the 16th arrondissement of Marseille.

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

In 1570, Jean Riqueti bought the château and seigniory of Mirabeau, which had belonged to the great Provençal family of Barras.

Michele Mazzarino

Mazzarino was the promoter of the "Mazarin district" in Aix-en-Provence located south of the Cours Mirabeau.

Mirabeau B. Lamar

Lamar County, in northeast Texas, and Lamar, a small unincorporated community in Aransas County on the Texas Gulf Coast, are both named for Mirabeau Lamar.


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