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15 unusual facts about Montmorency


Alphonse Royer

Royer and Gautier and their mistresses were also frequent visitors to Heine's summer house in Montmorency.

Duke of Montmorency

The title of Duke of Montmorency was created several times for members of the Montmorency family, who were lords of Montmorency, near Paris.

Éric Joisel

Éric Joisel (Montmorency, November 15, 1956 – Argenteuil, October 10, 2010) was a French origami artist who specialized in the wet-folding method, creating figurative art sculptures using sheets of paper and water, without the use of any adhesive or scissors.

FC Lamorlay

Lamorlay Football Club - usually referred to as ffc or Montmorency L - is a French football club from the town of Montmorency, which currently plays in the French League.

Jean Borthayre

Jean Borthayre (25 May 1901, Musculdy - 25 April 1984, Montmorency) was a French operatic baritone, particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories.

Jean Goujon

He is also responsible for engravings for Jean Martin's 1547 translation of Vitruvius and for work on the Château of Ecouen, for the Montmorency family.

In 1544-1547 he was occupied with considerable works at the Château d’Ecouen for the connétable de Montmorency.

Joseph Édouard Cauchon

Cauchon himself entered political life in 1844, winning election for the riding of Montmorency in the Province of Canada's legislature.

Mariane Amaro

Mariane Goux Amaro (born 17 September 1993 in Montmorency) is a French football defender of Portuguese descent currently playing for Paris Saint-Germain in the French First Division.

Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours

Her large dowry included border provinces of Genevois, Faucigny as well as Beaufort which would become the property of the mainline House of Savoy.

Montmorency, Victoria

Montmorency was named after a local farm, Montmorency Estate, which in turn was named for the town of Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, where the French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived briefly.

Merchant Stuart Alexander Donaldson (1812–1867), the first Premier of New South Wales, owned the farming property known as 'The Montmorency Estate' until the 1840s.

Ooidonk Castle

In the 15th century the castle came into the possession of the well-known French noble family of Montmorency, when Jeanne de Fosseux married Jean de Montmorency.

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

In order to have an operation done and also to settle his inheritance, in 1715 the travelled to Paris, where he stayed with his friend, the patron and collector Pierre Crozat, whose cabinet in his Parisian house and chapel in his country retreat at Montmorency Le Gros decorated (both destroyed).

Zygmunt Kaczkowski

After his death, on his tombstone at the Champeaux cemetery in Montmorency there were inscribed, in Polish and in French, the words: "A combattu toute sa vie par la plume pour la cause de sa Patrie" (All his life fought with his pen for his Fatherland).


Amaury VI of Montfort

Amaury VI de Montfort (1195–1241) was the son of the elder Simon de Montfort and Alice of Montmorency, and the brother of the younger Simon de Montfort.

Anne Pierre Adrien, duc de Montmorency-Laval

Anne Pierre Adrien de Montmorency, Duc de Laval peer of France, Knight of the King's orders and the Golden Fleece, Knight of Saint Louis, Grandee of Spain (October 29, 1768 Paris - June 16, 1837) was a French foreign Minister.

Boulevard des Capucines

No. 2, at the junction with the rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, was the site of the former Hotel de Montmorency, then Théâtre du Vaudeville 1869, and Paramount Opéra movies 1927.

Charles Deblois

He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament after which he was defeated by Bloc Québécois candidate Michel Guimond in the 1993 federal election when the riding was renamed to Beauport—Montmorency—Orléans.

Charlesbourg-Jacques-Cartier

It was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed into a new Charlesbourg riding, and Charlevoix—Montmorency and Portneuf ridings.

Château d'Ussé

In 1802 Ussé was purchased by the duc de Duras; as early as March 1813, low-key meetings were held at Ussé among a group of Bourbon loyalists, who met to sound out the possibilities of a Bourbon Restoration: such men as Trémouille, duc de Fitzjames, the prince de Polignac, Ferrand, Montmorency and the duc de Rochefoucault attended.

Château de Beaumesnil

The east and west facades are heavily decorated with carvings — windows have grotesque masks inspired by the Commedia dell'arte, intertwined letters "M" and "D" allude to Marie Dauvet Des Marets, wife of Jacques, Marquis of Nonant and daughter Nicolas Brûlart de Sillery, Chancellor of France while the shields of the Montmorency-Laval branch of the Laval family appear above the main doorways.

Duc de Beaumont

The title, referring to Beaumont-du-Gâtinais in the Île-de-France, was created for Monseigneur Charles-François-Christian de Montmorency-Luxembourg, son of Christian-Louis, prince de Tingry (third son of François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg) and his wife Louise-Madeleine de Harlay, comtesse de Beaumont.

Faucher

Françoise Faucher is a Canadian actress, born in Montmorency, France in 1929

Francis d'Aguilar

Francis' grandmother, Catherine Burton, was the daughter of Reverend Edward Burton, Vicar of Annaghdown, County Galway and Maria Margaretta Campbell, who it is claimed was descended from Louis XIV of France by a Countess of Montmorency.

François and Michel Anguier

The chief works of François are the monument to Cardinal de Bérulle, founder of the Carmelite order, in the chapel of the oratory at Paris, of which all but the bust has been destroyed, and the mausoleum of Henri II, last duc de Montmorency, at Moulins.

Gare d'Enghien-les-Bains

Until 1935, it was the terminus for tramway lines to Montmorency and to la Trinité in Paris, 9th arr..

Hurstbridge railway line

The only places where space has not been provided are a cutting on the down side of Montmorency (though the section under the road bridge that crosses this cutting has been widened), the wooden trestle at Eltham, and a short cutting on the down side of Wattleglen.

Île d'Orléans Bridge

An electoral promise made by Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau to Montmorency County for a job-creation project during the Great Depression led to the construction of this bridge in 1934.

La Faloise

La Faloise was then in the hands of the Montmorency family, seigneurs of Breteuil.

Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval

During the French Revolution Montmorency-Laval left France and lived in exile in the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway, settling in the town of Altona, now a part of Germany.

Montmorency County, Michigan

Montmorency County is home to Michigan's most endangered species and one of the most endangered species in the world: the Hungerford's crawling water beetle.

Philippe de Chabot

His conflict with Montmorency is depicted in a 17th-century play by George Chapman and James Shirley entitled The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France (1639).

Rachel de Montmorency

In 1946 Rachel de Montmorency was commissioned to design a single light window for the North Chancel of the 12th century St. Mary church of Great Shefford, Berkshire, which depicts the Blessed Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus.

Reymond de Montmorency

Born in Gonda, in India, de Montmorency was the son of Major Reymond Hervey de Montmorency and Marion Ellen Coles.

Rough Wooing

These were, for France; Mary of Guise's brother the Marquis de Mayenne; Louis Trémoille; Jean de Bourbon, Comte de Enghien; Francis de Montmorency; Jean d'Annebaut son of the Admiral of France; Francis of Vendôme, were sent to London.

Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin

At the junction with the Boulevard des Capucines, site of the former Hotel de Montmorency, then Théâtre du Vaudeville 1869, and Paramount Opéra movies 1927.

Viscount Mountmorres

He was the son of James Edward Geoffrey de Montmorency, Quain Professor of Comparative Law at the University of London.

Yves Manglou

From the end of 1960 to 1975, Manglou successively held the position of Director of Social & Cultural Institutions in Sainte-Suzanne, Soisy-sous-Montmorency and Boulogne-Billancourt.