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unusual facts about Pont-de-l'Isère


Pont-de-l'Isère

It is best known for the fact that it's located on the 45th parallel north.


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.

Anthon

Anthon, Isère, a commune of the Isère département, in France

Aoste, Isère

The pork products produced in Isère department and especially the Jambon Aoste (Aoste Ham) are manufactured exclusively in this Groupe Aoste factory which was owned by the industrial group Sara Lee Corporation who ceased their activities in deli products and resold the operation to the American buyer Smithfield Foods through which it passed to the Chinese group Shuanghui in September 2013.

Artas

Artas, Isère, a commune of the Isère département, in France

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.

Chanas

Chanas, Isère, a commune of the Isère département, in France

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.

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.

County of Flanders

The region comprising future Flanders was, from an economic point of view, a flourishing region, with a series of ports along the Scheldt river: Ghent, Tournai, Valenciennes, Cambrai and Lambres at Douai on the Scarpe and a number of seaports: Quentovic, Boulogne and Isère portus, a port at the mouth of the Yser.

Coupe Icare

Coupe Icare (Icarus Cup) is an annual festival of free flight held between Saint-Hilaire (on the border of Chartreuse Mountains) and Lumbin (in the valley of Isère in France).

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.

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

Gerard Lally

At Romans on the 18 April 1701 he married Anne-Marie, the daughter of Charles Jacques de Bressac, seigneur de La Vache; they had a son Thomas Arthur Lally.

Henri Maclaine Pont

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

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.

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.

Jean-Pierre-André Amar

In 1790, Amar was elected vice-president of the Grenoble directory, and became a deputy to the National Convention for the département of Isère, and joined The Mountain, voting in favor of Louis XVI's execution during his trial.

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.

Lagrivea

The remains of Lagrivea were probably collected by Viret at the site La Grive L5 in the village of Saint-Alban-de-Roche, department of Isère, southeastern France.

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."

Maurienne

The A43 autoroute and a railway line enter at the western end from the Isère valley, and leave at Modane using the Fréjus Road and Rail Tunnels respectively which both emerge at Bardonecchia in Italy.

Mogens Ballin

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

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.

Ogier of Savoy

In 1355 he received the castellany of Conflans, which controlled the valleys of the Arly and Isère, which valleys he continued to command for the rest of his career.

Paul Barril

Paul Barril (13 April 1946 in Vinay, Isère) is a former officer of the French Gendarmerie Nationale.

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.

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.

Potentilla delphinensis

It is endemic to France, where it is limited to the southern French Alps (Savoie et Dauphiné: Bauges; Isère; Hautes-Alpes, Col du Lautaret).

Richard Holtby

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

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.

Saint-Alban Nuclear Power Plant

The Saint-Alban nuclear power plant is located on the Rhone river, in the Isere department 50 km downstream from Lyon in the communes of Saint-Alban-du-Rhône and Saint-Maurice-l'Exil.

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.

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.

Tignes

After the second world war, France needed electricity and it was decided to build the hydro-electric Tignes Dam in the Isère valley.

TRIGA

Since then, TRIGA fuel assemblies have been manufactured at CERCA's plant in Romans-sur-Isère, France.

Union Sportive Romanaise et Péageoise

L’Union sportive romanaise and péageoise is a French rugby union club based in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme).

Villaroger

The commune of Villaroger extends from 850m at the river Isère up to 3779m at the Mont Pourri.

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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