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3 unusual facts about Pontchartrain


Château de Pontchartrain

The Château de Pontchartrain is located in the municipality of Jouars-Pontchartrain in the department of Yvelines in France .

Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain

Louis Phélypeaux (1643–1727), marquis de Phélypeaux (1667), comte de Maurepas (1687), comte de Pontchartrain (1699), known as the chancellor de Pontchartrain, was a French politician.

Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain

Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain (1569 – 21 October 1621), lord of Pontchartrain and Villesavin, was a French statesman.


Camille, Prince of Marsan

She was the daughter of Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, a man of letter and his wife Hélène Françoise Angélique Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain (1715–1781), herself a daughter of Jérôme Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain.

Fort Macomb

(The other route is the Rigolets; both straits connect Pontchartrain to the Gulf via Lake Borgne.)

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

The idea of a bridge spanning Lake Pontchartrain dates back to the early 19th Century and Bernard de Marigny, the founder of Mandeville.

Pontchartrain Beach

In the early 1930s, subsequent to the construction of a seawall extending from West End to the Industrial Canal that created a new shoreline for Lake Pontchartrain, Pontchartrain Beach was moved to a new location at the lake end of Elysian Fields Avenue, a location formerly offshore of Milneburg.

Welcome Here Kind Stranger

He later recorded it in Irish as "Bruach Loch Pontchartrain" for the 2002 compilation album Eist Vol.2: Éist Arís, Songs In Their Native Language.


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