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unusual facts about Musée des Arts décoratifs, Strasbourg



Andrea Nagy

She played as starting point guard for the 1995–1996 Strasbourg team in France.

Andreas Räss

André Raess (German: Andreas Räss) (6 April 1794, Sigolsheim, Haut-Rhin - 17 November 1887, Strasbourg) was an Alsatian Catholic Bishop of Strasbourg.

Andrine Sæther

They lost the lawsuit, but Sæther and Lillo-Stenberg have declared their intentions to pursue the case in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Anne Plichota

With her fellow Strasbourg librarian Cendrine Wolf she co-authored Oksa Pollock (2007-2013), a French fantasy series, and a second more "gothic" trilogy Susan Hopper (first novel published March 2013).

Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée

He later became an instructor at teaching hospitals, firstly in Lille in 1825 then Strasbourg in 1832, when he was promoted to M.D. and professor of botany.

Antoni Gałecki

Gałecki represented Poland in a legendary World Cup game against Brazil on June 5, 1938, in Strasbourg, France.

Benjamin Gaulon

Benjamin Gaulon received a degree in Visual Communication from l'École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and a MFA in Interactive Media & Environment from the Frank Mohr Institute.

Benoit Dunoyer de Segonzac

A cousin of the painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac, he was born in Strasbourg, where he began to study music at the age of five at the Strasbourg Conservatoire.

Bruchsal Rollenberg junction

Another major purpose was the envisaged European high-speed link between Paris, Strasbourg, Munich and Vienna (the Magistrale for Europe).

Cardinal de Soubise

Cardinal François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris - 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a French prelate, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg.

Compulsory education

During the Reformation in 1524, Martin Luther advocated compulsory schooling so that all parishioners would be able to read the Bible themselves, and Palatinate-Zweibrücken passed accordant legislation in 1592, followed by Strasbourg—then a free city of the Holy Roman Empire— in 1598.

Constantin von Economo

In Nancy, he was introduced to hypnosis (under Hippolyte Bernheim), in Strasbourg he got in contact with methods of microscopic research of the nervous system (under Albrecht von Bethe).

Crime in France

The Neuhof area of Strasbourg was selected because of a need to tackle violent crime, and the historic rural town of Chambly to the north of Paris is being focused on because of rising burglary rates and car theft.

Dennis Embleton

They journeyed to Paris, Strasbourg, Baden, Switzerland, over the Simplon Pass, Milan, Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Trieste, Vienna, The Tyrol and back to Paris, All the time, in addition to seeing the sights, they visited numerous medical establishments, and at Pisa they petitioned the university, sat the examination for doctorate of medicine, passed and were granted diplomas on 14 September 1836

Edmund Twórz

Edmund Franciszek Twórz (born 1914, date of death unknown) was a Polish footballer (defender) who was in the Polish squad called up for the 1938 FIFA World Cup, but was left in Poland prior to the beginning of the tournament, as only 15 players went to Strasbourg.

Ford SAF

Ford had commissioned a new plant of its own at Poissy in 1937, with the stated intention of pulling out of the Strasbourg based Matford project.

François Thierry

Andreas Silbermann arrived in Strasbourg in 1702, then came to Paris to improve his skills and study Parisian methods of organ making.

Frankenthal Porcelain Factory

Works of the brothers Paul and Johann Hannong are displayed in the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Strasbourg and in the Musée du pain d'épice in Gertwiller.

Freda Betti

She participated in several opera festivals including Aix-en-Provence, Avignon, Bayreuth, Nantes, Nice, Nîmes, Rouen, Strasbourg, Toulon, and Vaison-la-Romaine.

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

He was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for the 1982 murder of Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Ray, who was an assistant US military attaché and murder of Israeli diplomat Yaakov Bar-Simantov in Paris, as well as involvement in the attempted assassination of American consul in Strasbourg Robert O. Homme.

Gerard Wodarz

Also, he represented Poland during one of the most famous games in Polish soccer history - against Brazil in Strasbourg, France, during the 1938 Football World Cup.

Graeme Danby

European engagements include Brag in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen at the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona; Somnos (Semele) and Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro) with De Vlaamse Opera; and Xuthus in Pam Vir's Ion for the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg.

Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale

The DCSP has competency in 75 departments and within the territorial services of 7 large provincial towns (Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Rennes) and overseas (La Réunion, New Caledonia and Antilles- French Guiana).

Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens

The first edition of Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens was published in 1570 in the city of Strasbourg.

Institut national des sciences appliquées

There are 5 INSA establishments organised as a network and located in major French regional cities Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg and Toulouse.

Jean Paul Lehners

After completing the “Cours Supérieurs” (higher courses) in Luxembourg in 1967, Jean-Paul Lehners studied in Strasbourg (France) as well as Vienna (Austria) between 1968 and 1973.

John Hume

In furtherance of his goals, he continues to speak publicly, including a visit to Seton Hall University in New Jersey in 2005, the first Summer University of Democracy of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, 10–14 July 2006), and St Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 18 July 2007.

Justus Velsius

Velsius and his colleague Jakob Leichius, who was instrumental in establishing the Gymnasium Tricoronatum, drafted guidelines for a curriculum of eight grades, similar to Sturm’s humanistic curriculum in Strasbourg.

Lamprecht

There are three manuscripts of Lamprecht's poem extant, one from Vorau which is not quite complete, one from Strasburg dating from 1187, which is about five times as extensive as the preceding, and lastly a version interpolated in the manuscript of a Basle chronicle.

Luc Grethen

There he studied composition, orchestration and conducting at the capital conservatory, as well as oboe and English horn at the Strasbourg and Mons (Belgium) conservatories.

Marcel Simon

Marcel Simon (1907 in Strasbourg – 1986) was a French specialist in the history of religions, particularly relations between Christianity and Judaism in antiquity.

Matthäus Zell

Matthäus Zell (also Mathias Zell; anglicized as Matthew Zell) (21 September 1477, Kaysersberg – 9 January 1548, Strasbourg) was a Lutheran theologian and reformer based in Strasbourg.

Niele Toroni

Toroni's works are part of major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg; the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; the Kunstmuseum Luzern; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich.

November 1918 in Alsace-Lorraine

In the wake of the German Revolution, Marxist councils of workers and soldiers (Soldaten und Arbeiterräte) formed in Mulhouse on November 9 and in Colmar and Strasbourg on November 10, in parallel to other such bodies set up in the general revolutionary atmosphere of the expiring Reich and in imitation of the Russian equivalent soviets.

Péter Révay

He received his education in Bártfa, Jihlava, probably also in Vienna, and between 1589 and 1591 in Strasbourg, where he was awarded the title of a Master of Philosophy.

Philippe Beck

Philippe Beck, born in Strasbourg on April 21, 1963, is a French poet, writer and professor for Philosophy at University of Nantes, in France and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children

In addition, the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg has passed judgments involving trafficking in human beings which violated obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Siliadin v. France, judgment of 26 July 2005, and Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia, judgment of 7 January 2010.

Remote surgery

One of the earliest remote surgeries was conducted on 7 September 2001 across the Atlantic Ocean, with a surgeon (Dr. Jacques Marescaux) in New York performing a cholecystectomy on a 68-year-old female patient 6,230 km away in Strasbourg, France named Operation Lindbergh.

Romuald Singer

Romuald Singer (died ca. 1992) was director of the international section of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), Strasbourg, and chairman of the Enlarged and the Legal Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO).

Sadok Chaabane

Moreover, he taught in many universities, namely in Syracuse (Italy), Nice, Aix en Provence and Strasbourg (France), Ben Aknoune (Algeria), and others.

Sibylle Baier

Having played guitar and piano as a young girl, she was moved to write her first song, "Remember The Day", after taking a road trip with a friend across the Alps to Genoa, via Strasbourg.

Simon Sulzer

Meanwhile, the older generation of reformers of Bern, Berchtold Haller and Franz Kolb, died, and a new direction was set by certain theologians from Strasbourg, to which he also adhered.

Steffi Kraker

At the 1978 World Championships in Strasbourg she won two bronze medals: team and vault.

Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict

The idea of a eurodistrict Strasbourg-Kehl (as it was called then) was officially launched on 22 January 2003, by then-French President Jacques Chirac and then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder during a meeting in the Élysée Palace; it was point 24 of the common declaration made on the 40th anniversary of the cooperation treaty between Germany and France.

Symphora Béhi

Her personal best times are 11.74 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 2004 in her birth city Paris; 23.70 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Montgeron; and 52.38 seconds in the 400 metres, achieved in June 2009 in Strasbourg.

Tony Cunningham

On leaving Strasbourg and Brussels in 1999 he became the Chief Executive of Human Rights NGO INDICT where he remained until his election to Westminster.

Wacker von Wackenfels

He was born in Konstanz (Constance) in 1550 in a Lutheran Protestant family and studied in Strasbourg, Geneva and Padua.

Xavier Vilanova i Montiu

Subsequently, following his family’s advice he moved to Paris to specialize in dermatology at the Hospital Saint Louis, then stayed for a period in Strasbourg and Milan where he received training from other leading scientists.


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