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3 unusual facts about Pont-de-Vaux


Canal de Pont-de-Vaux

The Canal de Pont-de-Vaux is a canal in eastern France connecting the Saone at Fleurville to Pont-de-Vaux.

Mitsubishi Motors Europe

The European design studio Mitsubishi Design Europe (MDE) and the research and development center Mitsubishi R&D Europe (MRDE) are based at Trebur in Germany, while Mitsubishi Motors Motor Sports (MMSP), responsible for the company's record-breaking success in the Dakar Rally, work out of Pont-de-Vaux, France.

Montmerle Charterhouse

Montmerle Charterhouse was dissolved in 1792 during the French Revolution, when some of its paintings, including a number by Nicolas-Guy Brenet, were moved to the parish church of Pont-de-Vaux.


2005 French riots

In other incidents, a police officer was injured while making an arrest after youths threw bottles of acid at the town hall in Pont-l'Évêque, and a junior high school in Grenoble was set on fire.

Alexandre Vincent Jandel

He was ordained priest 20 September, 1834, then appointed professor of Scripture, and soon afterwards rector of the seminary at Pont-à-Mousson.

Amyraldism

The national Synods at Alençon, 1637; at Charenton, 1645; and at Loudun, 1659 (the last synod permitted by the French government), decided against the excommunication of Amyraut but delimited his views in order to avoid further variance with historic Reformed orthodoxy.

Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux

Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux (1743–1828) was a French chemist and Pharmacist.

Auguste Brizeux

Théodore Botrel created a monument to him in Pont-Aven, which is ceremonially adorned each year at the Fête des Fleurs d’Ajonc.

Bert Vaux

Vaux's Law (as labelled by Avery & Idsardi 2001, Iverson & Salmons 2003), which he first formulated in a 1998 article in Linguistic Inquiry, states that laryngeally unspecified—i.e. voiceless--fricatives become GW/sg in systems contrasting fricatives without reference to GW/sg; thus they are to be aspirated or, more technically, to be pronounced with a spread glottis.

Blakeney, Norfolk

This was the gift of Maud de Roos or latterly de Ros, née de Vaux, wife of William de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros who distinguished himself in the Crusades, was knighted and granted land at Cley and Blakeney.

Charenton

Charenton-le-Pont, in the Val-de-Marne département, a commune which has a common border with Paris

Charles De Meaux

In 1997 in order to produce his first film, Le pont du Trieur (co-written with Philippe Parreno), he founded the production company Anna Sanders Films, with Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huyghe, Xavier Douroux and Franck Gautherot (both from the Consortium de Dijon), and then Dominique Gonzales-Foerster.

Clotilde de Vaux

In 1835, according to traditions of nobility, she had a marriage of convenience with a nobleman, Amédée de Vaux, tax perceptor of Méru.

Count Christian of Rosenborg

Countess Feodora Mathilde Helena af Rosenborg (born 27 February 1975 at Frederikssund), married firstly on 31 July 2004 at Holmens Kirke, Copenhagen, Eric Hervé Patrice Patte (born 20 August 1976 at Pont-à-Mousson, France), and divorced in 2005, without issue.

Duke of Bar

In 1354 Robert of Bar, who had married a French princess, was made Marquis of Pont-à-Mousson by the Emperor Charles IV and took the title of Duke of Bar.

FC Bagnols Pont

Football Club Bagnols-sur-Cèze – Pont-Saint-Esprit (Occitan Banhòus de Céser – Lo Pònt Sant Esperit; commonly referred to as FC Bagnols Pont or simply Bagnols Pont) is a French football club based in Bagnols-sur-Cèze in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.

Fernand Dauchot

Still, the crippled artist went to Brittany in 1923 and started to paint with other artists in Pont-Aven.

Fred Koch Brewery

After just 3 years, Vaux Breweries sold the Fred Koch Brewery to the Genesee Brewing Company.

Gare de Honfleur

The station was the terminus for two railway lines, the main line from Paris via Brionne and the branchline from Paris via Pont-l'Évêque.

Gaunless Bridge

Pont-y-Cafnau, an earlier iron bridge of 1793, although built for a wagonway rather than a railway

Henri Maclaine Pont

Born in Batavia in 1884, Henri Maclaine Pont studied civil engineering in Delft.

Henri Zisly

In 1902, he was one of the main initiators, alongside Georges Butaud and Sophie Zaïkowska, of the cooperative Colonie de Vaux established in Essômes-sur-Marne, in l'Aisne.

Hermann Ritter von Speck

Hermann Ritter von Speck was killed on 15 June 1940 in Pont-sur-Yonne, France.

House of Beaumont

Roger de Beaumont, Lord (seigneur) of Pont-Audemer, of Beaumont-le-Roger, of Brionne and of Vatteville, was too old to fight at the Hastings and stayed in Normandy to govern and protect it while William was away on the invasion.

Jacques Boyceau

It was designed for the patron rather than for the gardener, but it had an influence on the designs of André Le Nôtre, who transformed the manner of Boyceau and of the Mollet dynasty of royal gardeners—Claude Mollet and André Mollet—to create the culminating French Baroque gardens, exemplified at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles.

Jean Cavalier

Threatened with prosecution for his religious opinions he went to Geneva, where he spent the year 1701; he returned to the Cévennes on the eve of the rebellion of the Camisards, who by the murder of the Abbé du Chayla at Pont-de-Monvert on the night of July 24, 1702 raised the standard of revolt.

Jefferson Market Library

It was originally built as the Third Judicial District Courthouse from 1874 to 1877, and was designed by architect Frederick Clarke Withers of the firm of Vaux and Withers.

John Eleuthère du Pont

The petition claims that during that period, du Pont asserted alternately that he was Jesus Christ, the Dalai Lama and a Russian Czar.

Léon Germain Pelouse

He moved to Britanny, there, inspired by nature around Pont-Aven and Rochefort-en-Terre, Pelouse realised landscapes which were exhibited at the Salon de Paris in the following years.

Massacre of Italians at Aigues-Mortes

Asked if he was, indeed, Vernet from Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, he replied "Certainly, but I'm a telegram postman in Grenoble and I have never set foot in the saltpans. I know another Vernet in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont and it's my uncle, a man of fifty years, a cultivater who has never left the land."

Mogens Ballin

was a Danish artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven.

Paris Métro Line 9

The line links Pont de Sèvres in Boulogne in the west with Montreuil in the east via the city center of Paris, creating a parabola type shape to its route.

Pierre Desceliers

Desceliers' father was an archer at the Chateau d’Arques and his family possibly originated from the d’Auge area, where the family name survives between Honfleur and Pont-l’Évêque.

Pietro Tacca

For Paris, by order of Marie de Medici he finished Giambologna's equestrian Henry IV (inaugurated August 23, 1613), which stood at the center of the Pont-Neuf but was destroyed in 1792 during the Revolution, then replaced with the present sculpture at the Restauration.

Pont Royal

During the First French Empire (1804-1814), Napoléon I renamed the bridge the Pont des Tuileries, a name that was kept until the Restoration in 1814 when Louis XVIII gave back to the bridge its royal name.

Pont-y-Pant railway station

Pont-y-Pant railway station is a single platform passenger station in the Lledr Valley, Wales, on the Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog, which is operated by Arriva Trains Wales.

Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier

The main communities are Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Donnacona, Lac-Beauport, Neuville, Pont-Rouge, Shannon, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Saint-Raymond, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, and Deschambault-Grondines.

Richard Holtby

He fulfilled the requirements of his noviceship at Verdun and continued on to Pont-à-Mousson to continue his studies.

Robert de Flers

Robert de Flers (Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers) (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.

Roger de Beaumont

He was also feudal lord of Pont-Audemer, a settlement built around the first bridge to cross the River Risle upstream of its estuary, shared with the River Seine.

Roger de Beaumont-le-Roger, feudal lord (Seigneur) of Beaumont-le-Roger and of Pont-Audemer (c. 1015 – 29 November 1094) was a powerful Norman nobleman and close advisor to William the Conqueror.

Saint-Gobain

Multinational corporation Suez suggested that Saint-Gobain and Pont-à-Mousson (another French industrial group) should merge, in order to maintain independence from BSN.

Sallaumines

Sallaumines has a train station (Gare de Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Lille, and another one (Gare de Pont-de-Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Valenciennes.

The Green Christ

But the calvary depicted is an amalgam of calvaires from different site; the cross is based upon that in the centre of Névez, a community close to Pont-Aven and several miles from the coast, and the figure of Christ is based upon the calvaire at Briec - also some distance from the sea.

Thomas Betagh

Thomas Betagh (1737 – 16 February 1811) was an Irish Catholic priest, schoolteacher, and professor of languages at Pont-à-Mousson seminary.

Thomas Hovenden

He studied at the École des Beaux Arts under Cabanel, but spent most of his time with the American art colony at Pont-Aven in Brittany led by Robert Wylie, where he painted many pictures of the peasantry.

Tony Rey

Tony "Bruno" Rey is a guitarist/writer/producer/arranger who has worked with bands including Saraya, the Mike Pont Band, Danger Danger, Billy Joel, Enrique Iglesias, Joan Jett & the Black Hearts, Kathie Lee, Taylor Dayne, Anastacia and Rihanna.

Vesque Sisters

The Vesque Sisters were two French artist sisters, Marthe (1879 Joinville-le-Pont - 4 February 1949) and Juliette (1881 Paris - 4 December 1962), who, between 1900 and 1949, frequented Parisian circuses and documented circus life and performances in well-executed paintings.

Voguéo

After 15 minutes of travel from its base, it reached the second stop at the twin Nelson Mandela Bridges which connect the communes of Ivry-sur-Seine and Charenton-le-Pont via the D154 autoroute.


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Barthélemy Catherine Joubert

A monument to Joubert at Bourg-en-Bresse was razed by order of Louis XVIII, but another memorial was afterwards erected at Pont de Vaux.