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unusual facts about Petit-Bourg


Guadeloupe Ameiva

The fossil record shows that it once ranged across Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, and Îles des Saintes, but in most recent times it was restricted to Grand Ilet, just offshore of Petit-Bourg.


2013 Petit Le Mans

The 16th Annual Petit Le Mans presented by Mazda was the 2013 edition of the Petit Le Mans automotive endurance race, held on October 6–9, 2013, at the Road Atlanta circuit in Braselton, Georgia, United States.

Andeolus

Septimius Severus, passing through that region, had him put to death; his head was stabbed with a gladius on May 1, 208, at Bergoiata, a Gallic settlement on a rocky peak over the Rhône River which would be later known as Bourg-Saint-Andéol.

Anne de Gaulle

On 22 August 1962, Charles de Gaulle was the victim of an attempted assassination at Petit-Clamart.

Automatic Press / VIP

Among the notables who have published interviews in are Nobel Prize Laureates Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling, Bruno Latour, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Galison, Philip Petit, Bill McKibben, Susan Haack, Clark Nøren Glymour, Ariel Rubinstein, Colin Camerer, Solomon Feferman, John Bell, Timothy Williamson, Jaakko Hintikka, Johan van Benthem, Rohit Parikh, Krister Segerberg and others.

Bernard Yago

He then served as a professor at the Minor Seminary of Bingerville and as director of the Pre-Seminary École de Petit Clerics until 1956, whence he began pastoral work in Abidjan until 1957.

Bourg-en-Bresse Cathedral

This church was previously the collegiate church of Notre-Dame-du-Bourg, which in 1992 was raised to the status of co-cathedral of the Diocese of Belley-Ars, as the bishop and diocesan administration of Belley, later Belley-Ars, had been resident in Bourg-en-Bresse since 1978.

Canton of Marseille – Notre-Dame-Limite

It is composed of the part of the 14th municipal arrondissement of Marseille situated north-west of avenue du Marché-National, rue Jean-Queillau, chemin de Saint-Joseph à Sainte-Marthe, cité Saint-Joseph, boulevard Roland-Dorgelès, cité Les Micocouliers, boulevard Roland-Dorgelès, chemin du Petit-Fontainieu and traverse des Arcades.

CERE India

CERE has conducted lectures, workshops for the many reputed organisations including Accenture, Aga Khan Educational Society, American Centre, Bombay International School, British Council, Concern India, Indian Business School, InspirEd, J B Petit High School for Girls, JSW Foundation, Oberoi Hotel, Rotary Clubs, St. Xavier's College, Symbiosis Footprints

Chêne-Bourg

The pianist Dinu Lipatti is buried in the cemetery of Chêne-Bourg next to his wife Madeleine.

Christophe Moyreau

Contemporary sources also mention a treatise by Moyreau, Petit abrégé des principes de musique par demandes et réponses (1753), which has been conserved at Orléans (Médiathèque), at the Cornell University of Ithaca and at the Newberry Library of Chicago (USA).

College Harry Brakeman

In January 2010, the 7.0 Magnitude earthquake that devastated much of Haiti caused considerable damage to the town of Petit-Goave, followed by a 5.9 magnitude aftershock centered directly below the town.

Damage to infrastructure in the 2010 Haiti earthquake

RSF also reported that 12 radio stations in the southwestern town of Petit-Goâve and five of Léogâne's nine stations were badly damaged.

Damage to infrastructure in the 2010 Haiti earthquake was extensive and affected areas included Port-au-Prince, Petit-Goâve, Léogâne, Jacmel and other settlements in southwestern Haiti.

Didier Guillaume

In 2008, after his election as senator, he had resigned his post as major of the commune of Bourg-de-Peage, which is the chef-lieu of the canton of the same name, represented by Guillaume in the General Council.

Épinay-sur-Orge

Épinay is served by two stations on different branches of line C of the RER suburban railway system: Épinay-sur-Orge and Petit-Vaux.

European Information Technology Observatory

The EITO exists thank to an initiative of Enore Deotto (Milano, † August, 9th, 2008 in Carnia) and the support of Luis-Alberto Petit Herrera (Madrid), Jörg Schomburg (Hannover) and Günther Möller (Frankfurt am Main).

Fortified Sector of the Dauphiné

Ouvrage Gondran (Gondran E, Godran Est), petit ouvrage of five blocks (CORF)

François Nau

He attended primary school at Longwy until 1878, then the "petit séminaire" of Notre-Dame des Champs at Paris, then the "Grand Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice" in 1882.

François Petit

Some may also have seen Petit in "Beyond the Mat", a pro-wrestling documentary, attending to wrestling performer, Mick Foley, after a particularly dangerous stunt in a match.

François Racine de Monville

He was also noted for originality as an architect, designing two town houses, the Grand and Petit Hotel de Monville, which were built by architect Étienne-Louis Boullée in Paris at the corner of the rue d'Anjou and rue Saint-Honoré in Paris.

George Onions

On 22 August 1918 south of Achiet-le-Petit, France, Lance-Corporal Onions, having been sent out with one man to get in touch with the battalion on the right flank, saw the enemy advancing in large numbers.

Georges Blond

Blond initially came to attention as a disciple of Alexis Carrel, and when reviewing Carrel's book L'Homme, cet inconnu for the journal Le petit dauphinois commented that Carrel was one of the few writers who would genuinely alter who people thought of themselves.

Georges-Paul Wagner

He has defended in court Jean-Marie Le Pen, as well as members of the OAS terrorist movement who tried to assassinate General Charles de Gaulle at Le Petit-Clamart in 1962.

Hell-Bourg

They were soon being recommended for children, weak and anaemic adults, as well as people suffering from gastritis.

Henri Boutet

Henri Boutet (1851 Sainte-Hermine, Vendée - 9 June 1919 Paris), "le Petit Maître au corset", was a French Belle Époque artist whose work focused on the genre "La Parisienne".

Henri Chapu

Born in Le Mée-sur-Seine into modest circumstances, Chapu moved to Paris with his family and in 1847 entered the Petit École with the intention of studying drawing and becoming an interior decorator.

Jean-Baptiste Robin

He continued composition studies with George Benjamin (King's College London) and organ studies with Louis Robilliard (Conservatoire de Lyon, Prix de Perfectionnement), Odile Bailleux (Conservatoire de Bourg-la-Reine, Prix de Perfectionnement), and Marie-Claire Alain (regional conservatory of Paris).

Johann von Ravenstein

After capturing the notorious Chemin des Dames, he succeeded, with 10 soldiers, to capture the bridge over the Aisne at Bourg intact.

Joseph François Michaud

He was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg-en-Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the rest of his life.

Jura Mountains

Part of the A40 autoroute crosses through a spectacular portion of the southern Jura between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, which is known as the "Highway of the Titans."

Kesari Balakrishna Pillai

In this context, E. M. S. Namboodiripad called Kesari as "Petit-Bourgeois intellectual", which later he corrected.

Le Petit Noël

Noël, or Le Petit Noël, is the main character of an eponymous Belgian comics series, and a secondary character of Spirou et Fantasio.

Luc Jacquet

Luc Jacquet (5 December 1967 in Bourg-en-Bresse) is a French film director from Paris.

Michiel Andrieszoon

He was with de Graaf when they rendezvoused with the rest of the fleet from Petit-Goâve in February 1683.

Peppermoon

In Taiwan the album was released as a 2-CDs set with an exclusive covers EP that includes "Qui a tué grand-maman ?" (Polnareff), "Manchester et Liverpool" (Marie Laforêt), "Tous les garçons et les filles", "Ce petit cœur" et "Comment te dire adieu" (Françoise Hardy), "La plus belle pour aller danser" (Sylvie Vartan) and "Porque Te Vas" (Jeanette).

Petit Palais

The Petit Palais has served as a model for other public buildings, notably for the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Museo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) in Santiago, Chile.

Petit-Enghien

At the time, the municipality also included the village of Marcq.

Petit-Goâve

The 400th episode of the radio program This American Life, which aired in February 2010, featured a story on a university in Petit-Goâve.

Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory

The Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory is a volcano observatory in the village of Bourg-Murat on the Island of Réunion that monitors the large basaltic Piton de la Fournaise shield volcano.

René Sergent

In addition, he designed the headquarters for the Rolls-Royce Limited, a Parisian store for the Duveen brothers (1907–1908) in the form of a Petit Trianon at the rear of a marble courtyard at n° 20 place Vendôme which is now a bank headquarters, and the Duveen Gallery, a large building in the style of Ange-Jacques Gabriel at the corner of 5th Avenue and 56th street in New York City (1909–1910, demolished 1953).

Salah Hamouri

Salah Hamouri was born on 25 April 1985 in Jerusalem to a French mother, Denise Hamouri-Guidoux, from Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain), who teaches French in Jerusalem, and from a Palestinian father, Hassan Hamouri, who manages a restaurant in Eastern Jerusalem.

San Martín National Institute

Plans were then drawn up for the reproduction of San Martín's erstwhile home in Le Grand-Bourg, France.

Seal of Massachusetts

The source is attributed to the letter written by a father of an English soldier and politician Algernon Sidney: "It is said that the University of Copenhagen brought their album unto you, desiring you to write something therein; and that you did scribere in albo these words: 'Manus haec inimica tyrannis ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem'".

Single rope technique

During World War II, such a team composed of Pierre Chevalier, Fernand Petzl, Charles Petit-Didier and others explored the Dent de Crolles cave system near Grenoble, France, which became the deepest explored cave in the world (-658m) at that time.

The Education of Everett Richardson

Everett Richardson was one of 235 trawlermen from the tiny ports of Canso, Mulgrave and Petit de Grat who fought for better pay, safer working conditions, job security and most of all, for the right to belong to the union they had chosen, the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union or UFAWU.

The Old Lady and the Pigeons

The team produced the film's first four minutes at the Folimage studios in Bourg-lès-Valence.

The Petit Paumé

The Petit Paumé is a student association of EMLYON Business School created in 1968, which name comes from Jacques Brel's popular song Les Paumés du petit matin (1962).

Thomas Banastre

In 1360, he was fighting in France in the campaign led by Edward III, who also knighted at Bourg-la-Reine.

Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Beaulieu served as a teacher of literature at the National Theatre School of Canada from 1972 to 1978, and also wrote for the Radio-Canada broadcasts "Documents", "Petit théâtre", "Roman", "La Feuillaison".


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