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unusual facts about Normand


Caraquet

The land was officially granted for the town in 1774 through the Royal Proclamation to 34 families of Acadian, Normand and Mi'kmaq origins.


Angers Cathedral

However, Geoffroy de Tours, the Bishop of Angers from 1081 to 1093, ordered the reconstruction of the Cathedral, which continued under the supervision of his successors, Renaud de Martigné (1102–1125), Ulger (1125–1148) and Normand de Doué (1148–1153).

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Tellier, Luc-Normand, Face aux Colbert : les Le Tellier, Vauban, Turgot ... et l'avènement du libéralisme, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1987, 816 pages.

Beaucamps-le-Vieux

Humboldt the Old (Fr: Humbaud le Vieux, Latin: Humbaldus Vetulus ou Veteris) Lord of Beaucamps, was a knight descendent of the "le Vieux d’Yvetot" a Normand family of French-Danish origins.

Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand

Chantiers et Ateliers A. Normand is a French shipyard in Le Havre.

Christian Zetlitz Bretteville

He belonged to the French Norman noble family le Normand de Bretteville, and was the son of Charles Eugene le Normand de Bretteville and Mette Christina Zetlitz.

Joan of Plattsburg

The plot involves an orphan (Normand) who overhears German spies plotting in a basement near an American World War I training camp and believes that, like a modern day Joan of Arc, she's listening to disembodied voices.

Les Poppys

The small singers of Asnières, as they were, consisted of the first generation of Poppys: Bruno Polius, Harry Trowbridge, Philippe and Gabriel Képéklian, Thierry and Philippe Sellier, Philippe and Jean-Pierre Herman, Philippe Magnan, Jean-Jacques Gallard, Pascal Buffenoir, Pierre Puyhardy, Olivier Dubrez, Benoit Cabane, Christophe Normand, Bernard Carayon, Olivier Antignac.

Normand Laprise

Normand Laprise was born in 1961 and raised on a farm in Kamouraska in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec.

Potager du roi

Le Normand experimented with rare varieties of plants, such as Euphorbia, jasmine, Latania palms, and bananas brought back by French explorers.

Thomas Restout

Édouard Frère, Manuel du bibliographe normand, Rouen, Le Brument, 1860


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