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unusual facts about Pont d'Espagne


Hautes-Pyrénées

The Western Pyrenees National Park covers a significant area, and includes well-known attractions such as the Cirque de Gavarnie and the Pont d'Espagne.


Anne Muxel

Une enquête comparative France, Italie, Espagne, L’Harmattan, 287 p.

Aymavilles

The Roman aqueduct bridge Pont d'Aël, in the village of the same name, crosses a 66 m deep gorge, today carrying a hiking trail.

Cogne

Pont d'Aël, a Roman bridge nearby crossing the Cogne Valley over 60 m above the bottom

Entrée d'Espagne

On his return to Spain, he meets a hermit who forewarns Roland that he will be killed seven years after the French successfully conquer the city of Pamplona.

Ferdinand Hérold

Hérold collaborated with Daniel Auber on Vendôme en Espagne (1823) which capitalized on the fad for Spanish atmosphere, following the French victory at Trocadero in Spain.

Ferdinand Konščak

Alexander von Humboldt used the maps in his work Carte generale... de la Nouvelle Espagne, (Paris, 1804).

Georges Diebolt

He treated with equal eclecticism religious subjects such as Saint John the Evangelist (placed on the first story of the tower of Saint-Jacques in Paris during its 1852 restoration) and modern themes, such as the 1854 Maritime Victory on the pont d'Austerlitz.

Guigues VIII of Viennois

Knight and combatant par excellence, in 1325, at the age of sixteen, he took Varey, near Pont d'Ain, in a brilliant battle against the Savoyards.

Jean-Louis-Brigitte Espagne

Jean-Louis-Brigitte Espagne, Count d'Espagne and of the Empire (born 16 February 1769 in Auch, died 21 May 1809 on the island of Lobau) was a French cavalry commander of the French Revolutionary Wars, who rose to the top military rank of General of Division and took part to the Napoleonic Wars.

Pont Charles-de-Gaulle

In 1986, the Council of Paris (Conseil de Paris) decided to construct a new bridge between the Pont de Bercy and the Pont d'Austerlitz in southeast Paris, to imitate the design of the Pont d'Austerlitz.

Pont d'Arcole

Called the passerelle de Grève for the first two years of its life, its present name - according to the most generally accepted hypothesis - comes from the Battle of the Bridge of Arcole, in which Napoleon defeated the Austrians in 1796.

For the bridge in Arcole after which it and the battle of the bridge of Arcole are named, see Battle of the Bridge of Arcole.

Pyotr Chikhachyov

In early 1878, at the age of 71, he visited Algeria and Tunis, and in 1880 he published a description of his travel under the title Espagne, Algérie et Tunisie.


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