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2 unusual facts about Montagne Sainte-Victoire


Bouc-Bel-Air

It has a particularly nice view on several mountains among which the locally well known Sainte-Victoire.

Leon Dabo

After the war, he returned to France in 1948 and painted more landscapes, most notably of Montagne Sainte-Victoire.


Athanase Dupré

Louis Victoire Athanase Dupré (1808–1869) was a French mathematician and physicist noted for his 1860s publications on the mechanical theory of heat (thermodynamics); work that was said to have inspired the publications of engineer Francois Massieu and his Massieu functions; which in turn inspired the work of American engineer Willard Gibbs and his fundamental equations.

Battle of Acapulco

Two of the ships of their squadron, Victoire and Lucifer, in Manzanillo took four hundred Mexican troops under the command of General Apolonio Montenegro, and on 11 September, landed without opposition at Acapulco.

Carlo Emmanuele dal Pozzo, 5th Prince of Cisterna

In Brussels, 28 September 1846, Carlo Emmanuele married Countess Louise de Merode-Westerloo, daughter of Count Werner de Merode of the princely house of Rubempré, by his wife, Countess Victoire de Spangen d'Uyternesse.

Edison-Lalande cell

In 1880, the manufacturer De Branville and Company of 25 rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris exploited the patent of Lalande and Chaperon to build copper oxide batteries.

Grand Synagogue of Paris

The Grand Synagogue of Paris generally known as Synagogue de la Victoire or Grande Synagogue de la Victoire is situated at 44, Rue de la Victoire, in the 9th arrondissement.

Jacques Aymar de Roquefeuil et du Bousquet

His mother was Victoire de Moret, granddaughter of Madeleine de Bourbon.

Le Tholonet

Paul Cézanne, who painted Sainte-Victoire and the black castle at Tholonet, would often eat at the Berne restaurant, today named Relais Cézanne.

Lycée International Georges Duby

The surroundings are picturesque Provençal villages and residential areas dominated by Montagne Sainte-Victoire, a major landmark of the Aix area, and a favorite motif of Paul Cézanne.

Montagne Sainte-Geneviève

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

René Hardy

His book Bitter Victory (French title Amère victoire) was adapted for the cinema in a Franco-US co-production starring Richard Burton.

Sisters of the Cenacle

There was a young woman named Marie-Victoire-Thérèse Couderc, who lived in the small hamlet of Le Mas in the south of France.

Victoire Terminus

Victoire Terminus is a French 2008 documentary film about women's boxing in Kinshasa.

Victor Scipion Charles Auguste de La Garde de Chambonas

He was born in Paris, the son of Scipion Louis Joseph de La Garde, Marquis de Chambonas (1765) and of Louise Victoire Grimoard de Beauvoir du Roure.


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