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unusual facts about Montainville, Eure-et-Loir


Montainville

Montainville, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in France


Arville

Arville, Loir-et-Cher, a commune of the Loir-et-Cher département, in France

Breteuil

Breteuil, Eure, in the Eure département ; alternavive name : Breteuil-sur-Iton

Broglie

Broglie is a commune of the Eure département, in France

Buffet Crampon

In 2008 Buffet Crampon continues to pursue its strategy by the acquisition of the Leblanc clarinet factory in La Couture-Boussey, Département of Eure, Haute-Normandie in France.

Camillien Houde

He is descended from the first Houde ancestor, Louis Houde, who came from Manou, Eure-et-Loir, France to Quebec in 1647.

Château de Beaumesnil

Château de Beaumesnil is a 17th-century Louis XIII baroque style château located in the commune of and close to the village of Beaumesnil in Eure department of Normandy in northern France.

Chateau de Leveville

The castle of Levéville or Levesville stands on a plateau above the city of Chartres in the Eure-et-Loir department.

Château de Troussay

The Château de Troussay is one of the smallest Châteaux of the Loire Valley, and is situated in Cheverny, in the Loir-et-Cher.

Congregation of Divine Providence

Another congregation which has a connection to this one is that of the Sisters of Providence of Ruillé-sur-Loir, France, founded in 1806, whose founder adopted the Rule of Life and religious habit of this congregation.

Duchess Marie Thérèse of Württemberg

Marie Therese married Prince Henri d'Orléans, second child and eldest son of Henri, Count of Paris and his wife Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, on 5 July 1957 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir, France.

Édouard Dujardin

Édouard Émile Louis Dujardin was born in Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt, Loir-et-Cher, and was the only child of Alphonse Dujardin, a sea captain.

European Grouping of Marketing Professionals

In France, its headquarters were based in Fleury-sur-Andelle, Eure, and it employed approximately 360 employees and 50,000 distributors in France.

Flacey

Flacey, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in north-central France

Foulbridge

Sir Ralph Eure's 'place' here is mentioned in 1537, and the manor, late the possession of the Hospitallers and in the tenure of Sir Ralph Eure, was in 1555–6 granted to the Archbishop of York, but no later mention of it has been found.

Francis IV of Beauharnais

Francis IV of Beauharnais (1630 in Orléans – 1681 in Orléans), squire, sieur of la Grillère (at Vouzon, Loir-et-Cher) and sieur de la Boische, was a French nobleman.

François Chabot

Re-elected to the National Convention for the département of Loir-et-Cher, he voted for the execution of King Louis XVI, and opposed the proposal to prosecute the authors of the September Massacres, as there were heroes of the Battle of Jemmapes among them.

French Senate election, 2008

They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

Grand Falconer of France

This notwithstanding, Louis XIV maintained an aviary of hunting birds, located (from 1680 on) in Montainville, as a symbol of power.

Helier

Churches dedicated to Helier can be found in Rennes, St. Hellier, Beuzeville (Eure), Amécourt (Eure), Barentin (Seine-Maritime), Monhoudou (Sarthe).

Henri Gault

Henri Gault (Pacy-sur-Eure, 4 November 1929 - 9 July 2000) was a French food journalist.

Houssay

Houssay, Loir-et-Cher, a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department, France

Houssaye

La Houssaye, a commune in the Eure department in northern France.

Iviswold

The 1887 remodeling of the house was inspired by the Château de Chaumont in Loir-et-Cher, France.

Jean-Louis Agobet

Jean-Louis Agobet (Blois Loir-et-Cher, 21 April 1968) is a French composer.

Josef Armberger

Josef Armberger's grave is located at the military cemetery Champigny in the department of Eure.

Karl Girardet

Unlike his friends and colleagues Maximilien de Meuron and Rodolphe Töpffer, he was not enchanted by the snow-capped peaks of the Alps, preferring instead to portray lakes, streams and marshes, notably the rivers Aar, Eure and Marne.

Le Safran de la Chapelle-Vicomtesse

Le Safran de la Chapelle Vicomtesse are producers of Saffron in the Loir-et-Cher region of France.

Lehmann Aviation LA300

Lehmann Aviation LA300 is a fully automatic lightweight small UAV launched by Lehmann Aviation, the French manufacturer of leightweight versatile UAS based in La Chapelle-Vendômoise, Loir-et-Cher, in July 2013.

Léon Bazin

After the liberation of France in 1944 he was reappointed to this position, and in 1950 became consulting architect to Loiret and Loir-et-Cher.

Loir

It is indirectly a tributary of the Loire, and runs roughly parallel to it and slightly north of it for much of its length, and so might be regarded as a Yazoo type river.

Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet

His home was the family seat, the Château d'Anet, which stood in a royal hunting preserve in the valley of the Eure.

Manou

Manou, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in France

Mary Cecilia Bailly

The pair left Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on April 26, 1843, and sailed to France, where they spent time with the Sisters of Providence of Ruillé-sur-Loir and met with dignitaries including Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, Queen of France.

Montoire-sur-le-Loir

Montoire-sur-le-Loir is known as the location where, on 24 October 1940, the famous handshake between Adolf Hitler and Maréchal Pétain took place signifying the start of organised French collaboration with the Nazi regime.

Pascal Quignard

Pascal Quignard (born April 23, 1948) is a French writer born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure.

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester

However in 1121, royal favour brought Robert the great Norman honors of Breteuil and Pacy-sur-Eure, with his marriage to Amice de Gael, daughter of a Breton intruder the king had forced on the honor after the forfeiture of the Breteuil family in 1119.

Sarah Monod

Pastor of Marsauceux in the commune of Mézières-en-Drouais, Eure, of Mouilleron-en-Pareds, Vendée and chaplain of the Diaconesses de Reuilly.

Stade Pacy-Ménilles

Stade Pacy-Ménilles is a multi-use stadium in Ménilles, near Pacy-sur-Eure, France.

Talcy

Talcy, Loir-et-Cher, a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department, known for the Château de Talcy

Tancarville Bridge

The Tancarville Bridge (Pont de Tancarville in French) is a suspension bridge that crosses the Seine River and connects Tancarville (Seine-Maritime) and Marais-Vernier (Eure), near Le Havre.

Valentine de Sainte-Aldegonde

On 8 October 1839 she married Alexandre Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord, son of Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord and Princess Dorothea of Courland, at the Château de Beauregard at Cellettes (Loir-et-Cher), her mother's property.

William Eure, 1st Baron Eure

Ralph Eure defended Scarborough Castle against the Pilgrimage of Grace for 20 days in 1536 with a garrison comprising only his household servants.

William Palmes

Mary Eure, younger daughter and co-heiress of William Eure (d.1645) of Malton, 6th Baron Eure.

Xavier Oriach

Nevertheless, Oriach refused to return; when he did leave Paris in 1979 it was only to establish himself at Jouy-sur-Eure (Normandy), where he had gone regularly since his arrival in France.


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