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35 unusual facts about Montpellier


Antonio de Zúñiga

In 1519, Antonio took part in the diplomatic meetings headed by Mercurino Gattinara at Montpellier, France, with king Francis I of France representatives.

Auguste Brizeux

Following his death at Montpellier on 3 May 1858, his Œuvres complètes (2 vols., 1860) were edited with a notice of the author by Saint-René Taillandier.

Battle of the Puig

After encamping in Montpellier from the end of 1236 through the beginnings of 1237, the army concentrated on Teruel and followed the Palancia River, taking La Vall d'Uixó, Nules, and Almenara.

Catalan Talgo

In the fall of 1994, with the introduction of TGV services from Paris and Geneva to Montpellier, the Catalan Talgo was shortened to the Montpellier – Barcelona part.

Chirurgia magna

The physician and bibliophile Tibulle Desbarreaux-Bernard (1798–1800) believed that the Chirurgia magna was originally written in Catalan at the medical school in Montpellier, and that the Latin text is an early translation.

Daphnis et Alcimadure

Mondonville's Occitan opera was again performed in Montpellier in 1981 and recorded; in 1999 some pieces were recorded on CD with baroque musical instruments.

Der arme Heinrich

In contrast with the biblical Job, Heinrich is unable to come to terms with this and visits doctors in Montpellier, who are unable to help him.

Ed Dorn

During the 1990s, after a teaching exchange visit to Paul Valery University in Montpellier inspired an interest in the Cathars of Southern France, he started working on Languedoc Variorum: A Defense of Heresy and Heretics.

Emin Garibov

He was part of the Russian silver medal-winning team that competed at the 2012 European Championships in Montpellier, France, where he also won the gold on high bar.

Fanély Revoil

After starting work as a secretary Revoil followed courses in singing and acting at the Marseille Conservatoire, making her debut in Gillette de Narbonne in Montpellier in 1928 (which also marked her farewell to the stage in 1957), then appeared in Mulhouse in Comtesse Maritza, before joining the company in Le Havre, singing in operettas from both the Paris and Vienna traditions (including the French premiere of Frasquita), as well as in Carmen.

François Craenhals

In the 1990s, Craenhals moved to Rivières-de-Theyrargues in the south of France, where he continued drawing his two series until his death in 2004 in Montpellier.

Giant of Castelnau

The bones of the Castelnau giant were studied at the University of Montpellier and examined by M. Sabatier, professor of Zoology, at the University of Montpellier, and M. Delage, professor of paleontology at the University of Montpellier, in addition to other anatomists.

It is of some interest that in 1894, press accounts mentioned a further discovery of bones of human giants unearthed at a prehistoric cemetery at Montpellier, France (5 km Southwest of Castelnau) while workers were excavating a water works reservoir.

Guillem de Balaun

Guillem or Guilhem de Balaun (fl. bef. 1223) was the castellan of Balazuc and a troubadour from the region around Montpellier.

James II of Aragon

Aragon retained control over the continental territories of the Majorca kingdom — Montpellier and Roussillon — throughout James's reign.

Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup

He completed his medical studies at Montpellier and remained attached to the countryside of the southwest of France.

K-ID

After two years of training in Montpellier in Audiovisual, K-ID creates in 2009 his structure “Oracle Vision Future” specialised in video production, computer graphics, event and artists management.

Kevin Spraggett

He came in last at Montpellier Candidates 1985, but qualified again for the next Candidates.

Lahntal

Lahntal has been partnered since 6 April 1986 with the community of Sussargues, which lies in the department of Hérault in southern France, right near Montpellier (about 17 km) and the Mediterranean Sea.

Matteo Manuguerra

Matteo Manuguerra enjoyed a long career and was still active when he died suddenly of a heart attack, in Montpellier, France.

Montpellier, Cheltenham

Montpellier is a district of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (England), at the end of the Promenade south of the town centre.

Murviel-lès-Montpellier

Agénor Azéma de Montgravier, pioneering archaeologist, carried out excavations in the mid 19th century at the Roman ruins of Murviel-lès-Montpellier on behalf of the Commission de la Carte des Gaules.

Outlook Tower

The house became the Scots College (College Des Ecossais).

Perthus Tunnel

The Perthus Tunnel is a twin-bore railway tunnel between Perpignan, France and Figueres, Spain built as part of the high-speed railway line between Barcelona and Montpellier under the Eastern Pyrenees.

Pierre-Joseph Amoreux

He was the librarian at the Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier, in English Medical college of Montpellier.

Scented water

Even though it is said by scholars that the art of perfumery has it roots in antiquity, the city of Montpellier has self established itself as the birthplace of perfumery.

Serge Ngando

He studied jazz bass in Montpellier, France at the Jam jazz school, then he decided that the bass was no longer a challenge.

Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet

He was born in Cargins, Co Galway, Ireland and educated at the Jesuit College, Toulouse, France (abtaining an MD in 1758) and the School of Medicine in Montpellier, France.

SPEAK campaign

In July 2004, the university's principal contractor, Walter Lilly, a subsidiary of the Montpellier Group, withdrew after its shareholders received threatening letters.

Supercomputing in Europe

The National Computer Center of Higher Education (French acronym: CINES) was established in Montpellier in 1999, and offers computer services for research and higher education.

Suzanna Guzmán

As a singer she has performed with international and American Opera companies as a principal artist: La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera, La Favorite in Montpellier, France, and Goya at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.

Thomas de Montpellier

His family, which apparently came from Montpellier, had a tradition of service to Edward I; Thomas himself is recorded as being in the service of the Crown by 1307, in which capacity he visited Ireland on several occasions.

Union Cup

The XVs competition was won by the Kings Cross Steelers I London, over the Manchester Village Spartans and the Emerald Warriors RFC Dublin, while the Xs competition was won by the Los Valents Montpellier, over the Bristol Bisons RFC and the Kings Cross Steelers II.

Wenceslaus II of Legnica

Since 1363, Wenceslaus II began his studies in the University of Prague, and in the decade of 1370 he travelled to Montpellier, France, where he obtained a degree in canon law.

Yonah Gerondi

Gerondi was the most prominent pupil of Solomon of Montpellier, the leader of the opponents of Maimonides' philosophical works, and was one of the signers of the ban proclaimed in 1233 against the Moreh Nevukim and the Sefer ha-Madda.


Agustín Creevy

Creevy is known as a mobile hooker with some very good ball handling skills for a hooker, his good offloading skills have led him to become called "Sonny Bill" Creevy (after the All Blacks centre Sonny Bill Williams who's trademark is offloading) by some Montpellier fans.

Ahmed Shawqi

After a year working in the court of the Khedive, Shawqi was sent to continue his studies in Law at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris for three years.

Aicard

When Pope Urban II, the greatest of the Gregorian reformers after Gregory, travelled through Languedoc and Provence, visiting Montpellier, Nîmes, Saint-Gilles, Tarascon, Avignon, Aix, Cavaillon, and other cities, preaching the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095, he had to avoid Arles, where the deposed bishop was still in power.

Air Horizons

Air Horizons launched weekly scheduled services from Montpellier to Casablanca and from Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Paris to Ouarzazate in October 2004.

Alexander Sitkovetsky

Aged eight, he appeared as a soloist in Montpellier, and he was subsequently invited to enroll at the Yehudi Menuhin School.

Ampelography

Then Pierre Galet of the École nationale supérieure agronomique de Montpellier made a systematic assembly of criteria for the identification of vines.

Boško Abramović

Best results: 1st at Lugano 1981; 1st at Pamporovo 1982; 1st at Reykjavík 1982; 1st at Vrnjacka Banja 1983; 1st at Niš 1983; 1st at Belgrade 1984; 1st at Linz 1984; 1st at Paris 1985; 2nd at Montpellier 1986; 1st at Berlin 1990; 1st at Oberwart 1990; 1st at Kladovo 1993; 1st at Bela Crkva 1995; 2nd in the Serbian chess championship 2006.

Charlotte Morel

Like e.g. Emmie Charayron, David Hauss and Laurent Vidal, Morel is also a member of the French Military Triathlon Team (Equipe de France militaire de triathlon EFM), which she joined in 2008 and which in summer 2010 moved from Montpellier to the Ecoles militaires de Draguignan (EMD) in Morel's native town.

Collège des Écossais, Montpellier

College Des Ecossais (Scots College) was an international teaching establishment located in Montpellier, France and founded by Patrick Geddes in 1924.

Don des vaisseaux

Langdoc obliged, and the example was followed the next year by the Estates of the provinces of Brittany, Burgundy, Artois, Flanders; the cities of Paris, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Marseille; some particular institutions such as the Posts, the Six Corps (corporations of the merchants of Paris), the Ferme générale, the Chambers of commerce; and even individuals.

EPSI

Later on, with the rise of the computer science industry, the school built branches in Bordeaux, Montpellier, Arras then in October 2002 in Nantes and then later in Lyon.

François Mireur

Mireur was born in Escragnolles in 1770, and studied as a medicinal doctor at the Faculty of Medicine in Montpellier.

Georges Frêche

The Socialist Party ran against Frêche's "independent left" list in the elections for Languedoc-Roussillon, with Frêche's successor as mayor of Montpellier, Hélène Mandroux as the head of list, but were roundly defeated, gaining only 7.74% in the first round, against Frêche's 34.28%.

Isaac Chueke

In 2001, he was a special guest of France’s Ministry of Culture to consult and share his expertise at the festivals of Aix-en-Provence and Radio France Montpellier.

Jean-Rémy Bessieux

Born in Vélieux in Montpellier, France, Bessieux had been a parish priest and seminary teacher when he entered the Holy Heart of Mary Congregation in August 1842.

John Buonarotti Papworth

Montpellier Pump Room Rotunda and Gardens, Cheltenham (1825-1826) for Pearson Thompson.

Michael Pisaro

It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991), Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991), Glasgow (INSTAL, 2009), Berlin (Maerzmusik, 2010), Sonorités (Montpellier, 2011) and others.

Michel Winock

He started his career in secondary school teaching at the lycée in Montpellier, then at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles and the lycée Lakanal in Sceaux.

Nicolas-Sébastien Adam

Along the way, he stopped to work on the ornamental façade of the Château de la Mosson at Juvignac, near Montpellier, spending 18 months on the project.

Oksana Dyka

She won the 2003 Marseilles International Opera competition which lead to her performance as Tosca at the National Opera of Montpellier in 2005, a role which she sang again that year at the Estonian National Opera opposite Sergei Leiferkus as Scarpia, at the Dalhalla Opera Festival in Sweden; in 2008 she sang that role at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and at the Arena di Verona.

Pascal Baills

Since 2009, he 's the assistant of the Montpellier's coach René Girard and this club won the championship of France in 2012.

Paul Reynaud

Hospitalized at Montpellier, Reynaud allegedly told Bill Bullitt, American ambassador, 'I have lost my country, my honour and my love'.

Pope Gelasius II

He was received with great enthusiasm at Avignon, Montpellier and other cities, held a synod at Vienne in January 1119, and was planning to hold a general council to settle the investiture contest when he died at Cluny.

Symphorien Champier

A doctor of medicine at Montpellier, Champier was the personal physician of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, whom he followed to Italy with Louis XII, attending to several battles, and finally settling in Lyon.

Telegraph Records

Telegraph Records is a Montpellier, France based record label founded in 1995 by Alexandre Petit and Éric Dalbin.

University of Montpellier

Professors from Montpellier were prominent in the drafting of the Napoleonic Code, the civil code by which France is still guided and a foundation for modern law codes wherever Napoleonic influence extended.

Víctor Montaño

Víctor Hugo Montaño Caicedo (born 1 May 1984 in Cali) is a Colombian association footballer, who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Montpellier.

Wilhelm Vischer

Wilhelm Eduard Vischer (Davos 30 April 1895 - Montpellier 27 November 1988) was a Swiss pastor, theologian, Hebraist, Old Testament scholar and amateur Lied lyricist.

William Reed Business Media

As well as British offices in Crawley and London, the company has offices in Montpellier, France and New York, United States.