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5 unusual facts about Montagne


Agnes Salm-Salm

On August 18, 1870, Felix Salm-Salm was killed in combat at Saint-Privat-la-Montagne during the Battle of Gravelotte.

Honoré Tournély

Several of these treatises were abridged for use in seminaries, still appear in Tournély's name, but they were in reality the work of Montagne, Robinet, and Collet.

Pierre de Jaumont

The Pierre de Jaumont (lit. "stone of Jaumont") is an oolitic limestone of the Upper Jurassic, found in Malancourt-la-Montagne, part of the commune of Montois-la-Montagne, in Lorraine, France.

Vigo Rendena

Vigo Rendena borders the following municipalities: Pelugo, Montagne, Villa Rendena and Darè.

Villa Rendena

Villa Rendena borders the following municipalities: Daone, Pelugo, Montagne, Vigo Rendena, Darè, Preore, Tione di Trento and Breguzzo.


Claude Kogan

Following the war, the couple became members of the Groupe de Haute Montagne and climbed Chamonix, Dauphiné, the north face of the Dru and the south ridge of the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey.

Club Montagne AGEPoly

The Club Montagne de l'Agepoly (CMA) is an outdoors and mountaineering club at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne.

Edward Brerewood

This was likewise published by his nephew, and afterwards translated into French by J. de la Montagne, Paris, 1640, and into Latin by John Johnston.

Fort Montagne à la Bosse

Fort Montagne à la Bosse (literally "Hump Mountain") was a North West Company trading post from 1790 until 1805 or after.

Fraipontite

It was first described in 1927 for an occurrence in Vieille Montagne, Verviers, Liège Province, Belgium.

Montagne des Français

Of the herpetofauna, eight species are endemic to the Montagne des Français, 28 are regional endemics, 2 are listed as globally threatened in IUCN's 2006 Red List and 14 species are CITES listed.

To date, 242 species from 58 families and 158 genera have been described from the Montagne des Français; the five most important families that account for over 40% of the species are the Rubiaceae, Fabaceae, Malvaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Sapindaceae.

Montagne Sainte-Geneviève

The Montagne Sainte-Geneviève is a hill on the left Bank of the Seine in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.

Rene Morgan La Montagne, Sr.

(1856–1910) was treasurer and director of E. Montagne's Sons, a champion polo player, and one of the founders of the Rockaway Hunt Club in Cedarhurst, New York on Long Island.

Renée Montagne

Montagne traveled to Rome to cover the funeral of Pope John Paul II for NPR's Morning Edition in 2005.

The Mountain

The Mountain (French: La Montagne) is a political group during the French Revolution whose members, called Montagnards, sat on the highest benches in the Assembly.

Trempealeau County, Wisconsin

At the mouth of the Trempealeau River, which flows from northeast to southwest across the county on its way to the Mississippi River, they found a bluff surrounded by water and called it "La Montagne qui trempe à l’eau," which means "mountain with its foot in the water."


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