Prix de Pomone, a French horserace named after Pomona (French name Pomone), the Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards.
"Pomone" by Maillol serves as the WWII war memorial, and the studio of Terrus, where Henri Matisse and André Derain were received, saw the birth of the Fauve movement.
In November 1809 Baudin was ordered to take the 80-gun ships of the line Robuste and Borée, the 74-gun Lion and the frigates Pauline and Pomone and escort a twenty ship convoy from Toulon to Barcelona to supply the Napoleonic forces fighting the Peninsular War.
D'Oriola, riding Pomone B, was the gold medal World Champion in show jumping at Buenos Aires in 1966.