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unusual facts about Moussey, Vosges



Arnaud Guillaume de Barbazan

Arnaud Guillaume (also Arnault Guilhem), Seigneur de Barbazan, (1360 in Barbazan-Dessus, Hautes-Pyrénées, France – 1431, Vaudoncourt, Vosges, France) was a counsellor and butler to Charles VII of France and later a general during the Hundred Years' War who earned for himself the name of the Irreproachable Knight.

Arrondissement of Neufchâteau

Arrondissement of Neufchâteau, Vosges, an arrondissement in the Vosges department in France

Bauffremont

Bauffremont is a French family which derived its name from a village in the Vosges, outside of Orléans, now spelt Beaufremont.

Castles of Dahn

A similar arrangement of two or three castles clustered closely together may be found in several places in the south part of neighbouring Alsatian Vosges: the Dreistein at Odilienberg near Obernai, the three castles on the Schlossberg near Reinhardsmunster, the Drei Exen near Eguisheim and the castle group of Haut-Kœnigsbourg/Oedenburg.

Clément Serveau

From 1907 to 1909 he served as a soldier in the 15th Battalion in the Vosges at Remiremont.

Congregation of Divine Providence

The French-speaking Sisters were headquartered in Portieux, serving the Department of Vosges.

De Buyer

De Buyer (pronounced Dee Bou yeh) is a French cookware manufacturer, founded in 1830, from the village Le Val-d'Ajol in the Vosges department.

Erckmann-Chatrian

They specialised in military fiction and ghost stories in a rustic mode, applying to the Vosges mountain range and the Alsace-Lorraine region techniques inspired by story-tellers from the Black Forest.

Fanny Truchelut

Yvette "Fanny" Truchelut is part owner of a bed-and-breakfast type of hostel in the department of Vosges, France.

François-Louis Français

François Louis Français (November 17, 1814–1897), French painter, was born at Plombières-les-Bains (Vosges), and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller.

Friedrich Paulus

When World War I began, Paulus's regiment was part of the thrust into France, and he saw action in the Vosges and around Arras in the autumn of 1914.

Grand Wintersberg

At its summit, which is made of Bunter Sandstone, stands a 25 metre high observation tower, which offer hikers an outstanding panoramic view over the North Vosges, the Palatine Forest and the Upper Rhine Plain across to the Black Forest.

Henri Joly

Born at Viomenil, Vosges in 1866, he was gymnastics instructor at the school of Joinville, where Marey and Demenÿ came to make films.

Hubert Curien

Born in Cornimont, Vosges in Lorraine, Curien enlisted in the French resistance during World War II.

Jacques Delille

He purchased his personal safety by professing his adherence to revolutionary doctrine, but eventually quit Paris, and retired to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, where he completed his translation of the Aeneid.

Jean-Baptiste Lemire

On May 24, 1921, Jean-Baptiste was appointed Chef de l'Harmonie for the paper manufacturer at Anould in the Vosges it was common in Lemire's time for major industrial companies to have house orchestras or bands. -- D.R., sharing this function with one of the former military musicians from the city of Lyon.

Józef Hauke-Bosak

He died in the post of commander of brigade in the French army at Vosges, during the Franco-Prussian war in 1871.

Karl Hermann Bitter

He served as the plenipotentiary of Prussia on the Danube Commission from 1856 to 1860, was prefect of the Department of Vosges during the Franco-Prussian War.

Leuci

Hillforts in the region of the Leuci include some small ones in the Vosges, and Boviolles in the Ornain valley in the west of the territory.

Marey

Marey, Vosges, a commune in the Vosges département in France

Martin Waldseemüller

On 25 April 1507, as a member of the Gymnasium Vosagense at Saint Diey (German: Sankt Didel) in the duchy of Lorraine (today Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France), he produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".

Miel d'Alsace

Chestnut honey must be gathered in the hills south of the Vosges, in the forests of Brumath and Haguenau.

Moussey, Vosges

Moussey is one of several communes that formerly belonged to Senones Abbey: subsequently it fell within the Principality of Salm-Salm until the French Revolution, following which the former principality became a part of France.

Musée départemental d'Art ancien et contemporain

Musée départemental d'Art ancien et contemporain is a museum in Épinal, Vosges, France.

Nicholas Briot

He was born Nicolas Briot at Damblain, in Lorraine, in the Vosges department of France, a frontier town famous for its bellfounding and metalworking industries.

Nicolas Liez

Born in Neufchâteau in the French department Vosges on 14 October 1809, Liez was the son of Marie Weber, a Luxembourger, and Jean-Joseph Liez, a cobbler.

Nicolas Oudinot

His gallant defense of the little fort of Bitsch in the Vosges in 1792 drew attention to him; he was transferred to the regular army in November 1793, and after serving in numerous actions on the Belgian frontier he was promoted general of brigade, in June 1794 for his conduct at the Battle of Kaiserslautern.

Nompatelize

The commune occupies an ancient volcanic plateau which has been coated at the edges with Permian sandstone deposits which become thicker to the south and east in the Permian basin of Saint-Dié.

Philippe Tailliez

On 20 January 1955 he was designated Commander of the Northern Rhine Flotilla and of the building base "the Vosges" at Koblenz-Bingen in Germany and took its command with the centre of the Maritime Forces of the Rhine on April 24.

Raon-sur-Plaine

Under Napoleon I the administrative map of France was extensively reworked and in 1805 Raon was incorporated into the commune of Schirmeck, which at this stage was still part of the Vosges département.

Raves

Raves, Vosges, a commune in the Vosges département in France

Ricciotti Garibaldi

In 1866, alongside his father, he took part in the Battle of Bezzecca (1866) and the Battle of Mentana (1867); in 1870, during his father's expedition in support to France during the Franco-Prussian War, he fought in the Vosges, where he occupied Châtillon and, at Pouilly, captured the sole Prussian flag lost during the war.

Rudy Omankowski, Jr.

Among his most notable performances is his 1.25 km skywalk between two mountain tops in Gérardmer, les Vosges, France.

Sorbus mougeotii

Sorbus mougeotii (Vosges Whitebeam or Mougeot's Whitebeam) is a species of whitebeam native to the mountains of central and western Europe from the Pyrenees east through the Alps to Austria, and north to the Vosges Mountains.

Tendon, Vosges

Educated at the collège de Saint-Claude, in Toul, he studied philosophy and theology in the Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Catholic seminary, then was sent to the Sorbonne by his bishop, where he received the grade of doctor.

Transports Publics Fribourgeois

Bulle is the centre of operations with depot, workshops and connection to the standard gauge railway to Romont, on the SBB line between Bern and Lausanne.

Victor Noir

Son of a Jewish cobbler who had converted to Catholicism, born Yvan Salmon at Attigny, Vosges, he adopted "Victor Noir" as his pen name after his mother's maiden name.

Vosges

While the west part of the Vosges is flat sedimentary land (well suited for mineral waters), the east is dominated by the Vosges Mountain range (including the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Reserve) of which the Grand Ballon at 1424m is the highest peak.

The Place des Vosges in Paris was so renamed in 1799 when the department became the first to pay the new Revolutionary taxes.


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