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unusual facts about Montauban-de-Bretagne


André d'Espinay

1451, the son of Richard d'Espinay and Beatrix de Montauban.


AberFest

The AberFest Festival alternates with the Breizh – Kernow Festival that is held in Brandivy and Bignan in (Breizh/Bretagne – France) on the alternate years.

Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov

In May 1942 he was severely wounded, taken prisoner by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp in Montauban.

Battle of Palikao

The French troops were led by Charles Guillaume Cousin-Montauban, who was then awarded the title of Count of Palikao and a decade later, the 31st prime minister by Napoléon III.

Canon de 138 mm Modèle 1910 naval gun

It was carried by the dreadnoughts of the Courbet and Bretagne classes as their secondary armament and planned for use in the Normandie-class battleships.

Canton of Montauban-3

The Canton of Montauban-3 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao

He was appointed in 1858 to a command at home, and at the close of 1859 was selected to lead the French troops in the joint French and British expedition to China.

Citroën Ami

The Ami 6 was the first model to be produced at the new Citroen plant opened in 1961 in the presence of the new president to the south-west of central Rennes.

Clan Stewart

The Stewarts who became monarchs of Scotland were descended from a family who were seneschals of Dol in Brittany, France.

Congregation of Jesus and Mary

After his death, directors were appointed for the Seminaries of Valognes, Avranches, Dol, Senlis, Blois, Domfront and Séez.

Cordemais Power Station

The power station uses between 1.3 and 2 million tonnes of coal per year imported from South Africa, Poland, United States and Australia using the port facilities located at Montoir-de-Bretagne from where the coal is shipped by barges to the power station.

Dol Cathedral

Dol Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Samson de Dol) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Dol-de-Bretagne, Brittany, dedicated to Saint Samson.

Ensemble Matheus

Based in Brittany, the ensemble gives concerts in a number of French cities, including Brest at Le Quartz, where it has enjoyed a residency since 1996, Vannes (Théâtre Anne de Bretagne), and Plougonvelin (Espace Keraudy).

GDF Suez

With the stated aim of reaching a total production capacity of 10GW by 2013, three gas-fired thermal power plants at Fos-sur-Mer, Montoir-de-Bretagne and Saint-Brieuc are currently in various stages of development, as is a solar panel project in Curbans.

George Lewis Scott

Gibbon, on 19 October 1767, asked him to supply a paper ‘on the present state of the physical and mathematical sciences’ in England, for insertion in the Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande-Bretagne of Jacques Georges Deyverdun and himself.

Golfech Nuclear Power Plant

The Golfech Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne), on the border of Garonne between Agen (30 km downstream) and Toulouse (90 km upstream) on the Garonne River, from where it gets cooling water, and approximately 40 km west of Montauban.

Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany

The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (Les Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne in French) is a book of hours, commissioned by Anne of Brittany, Queen of France to two kings in succession, and illuminated in Tours or perhaps Paris by Jean Bourdichon between 1503 and 1508.

Guillaume de Felice

He became a pastor at the Reformed Church of Bolbec, in Normandy Seine-Maritime, then a professor of theology in Montauban, occupying the chair 'de morale et d'éloquence sacrée' (of morality and holy speech).

Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne

Henry of Mayenne or Henry of Lorraine, (Dijon, December 20, 1578 – Montauban, September 20, 1621) was a French noble from the House of Lorraine and more particularly from the House of Guise.

Institut Mines-Télécom

The group of telecommunications schools was established in the form of an Établissement public à caractère administratif (public establishment of an administrative nature), for the purpose of managing the three schools: the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications; the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne and the Institut national des télécommunications.

Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan

At the same time, lands were purchased at Pompignan (some 20 km to the southwest of Montauban) to provide a convenient rural retreat.

Kasino Point

The Kasino Point machine gun post was located between the villages of Mametz, Carnoy and Montauban.

La rondine

They chat and Ruggero tells Magda that she reminds him of the quiet and elegant girls from his home town, Montauban.

Les Holroyd

Les Holroyd has collaborated with Alan Simon, notably in the 2009 rock opera Anne de Bretagne, in which he played King Henry VII of England.

Les Vies des Saints de Bretagne

Les Vies des Saints de Bretagne is a book by Guy Alexis Lobineau, O.S.B..

Loeiz Honoré

Loeiz Honoré (born 26 January 1961 at La Guerche de Bretagne, France) is a violin maker living in Cremona, Italy since 1978.

Melleray Abbey

It was situated in Brittany, Diocese of Nantes, in La Meilleraye-de-Bretagne in the vicinity of Châteaubriant (in present Loire-Atlantique).

Minou Drouet

Marie-Noëlle Drouet, known as Minou Drouet (born July 24, 1947), of La Guerche-de-Bretagne, France, is a former poet, musician, and actor.

Montauban Cathedral

Montauban Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Montauban) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Montauban.

Musée Ingres

The Musée Ingres (Ingres Museum) is located in Montauban, France.

MV Bretagne

Bretagnes interior was furnished in typical 'Breton' decor featuring original artwork by the Scottish painter Alexander Goudie.

Ninety-Three

Lantenac has taken control of Dol-de-Bretagne, in order to secure a landing place for British troops to be sent to support the Royalists.

Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, Quebec

The town has two Catholic places of worship, the church of Notre-Dame-des-Anges (Our Lady of the Angels) and the chapel of Montauban.

Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne

The Open BNP Paribas Banque de Bretagne is a tennis tournament held in Quimper, France since 2011.

Operation Samwest

The first phase of the mission was to establish a secure base on the Breton Peninsula, near St. Brieuc in Duault in the Bretagne Region.

Philippe Labro

Philippe Labro, is a French author, journalist and film director, born in Montauban (close to the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) on 27 August 1936.

Pretty Smart

It was mostly filmed in Athens with most interiors and some exteriors at the Hotel Grande Bretagne.

Ralph de Gael

1074- It is possible that Ralph defended Dol when the Conqueror besieged it unsuccessfully in 1074, although it is more likely that Ralph was in Dol during the revolts against Hoel II, Duke of Brittany and that William came to Dol in defense of Hoel.

Redones

D'Anville supposes that their territory extended beyond the limits of the diocese of Rennes into the dioceses of St. Malo and Dol-de-Bretagne.

Saint Teilo

In 549 Teilo, with a small group of monks, moved to Dol in Brittany.

William FitzAlan, Lord of Oswestry

He was the eldest son and heir of Alan fitz Flaad, a Breton noble whose family were closely associated with the sacred environs of Dol-de-Bretagne, close to the border with Normandy and a short distance south-west of the great abbey of Mont Saint-Michel.


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