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12 unusual facts about Pontoise


Ana de Jesús

Because of the success of the Order in France, she decided to make a further foundation at Pontoise (January 15, 1605), and another one at Dijon (September 21, 1605).

Anne of Saint Bartholomew

The French superiors, desirous of sending her as prioress to Pontoise, obliged her to pass from the state of lay sister to that of choir nun.

École de Biologie Industrielle

EBI is a founding member of the Cergy-Pontoise Val d’Oise further education and research centre, along with Cergy's other prestigious colleges (ESSEC, ENSEA, EISTI, etc.) and Cergy-Pontoise University.

Jacques Vallée

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.

Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin

He rose rapidly through the hierarchy of the church, first made Vicar-General of Pontoise; then in 1765 he was created Bishop of Lavaur; and on 4 November 1770 he was appointed Archbishop of Aix in Provence.

Lady Barbara FitzRoy

Right after giving birth, she became a nun in the English Priory of St. Nicholas, at Pontoise in Normandy, France, taking the name Sister Benedicta, where she later became prioress in 1721.

Millet Lagarde ML-10

Only the prototype F-WEPK was completed and by 1957 it was in storage at Pontoise/Cormeilles-en-Vexin airfield to the west of Paris.

Pontoise Cathedral

The church, raised to the status of cathedral in 1966 when the Diocese of Pontoise was created, is dedicated to Saint Maclovius (Maclou).

Robert of Luzarches

Robert of Luzarches (born in Luzarches near Pontoise towards the end of the twelfth century) was a French architect who worked on the cathedral of Notre Dame in Amiens.

Société de Transport Interurbains du Val d'Oise

The company was created in 1974 by Cars Giraux and Cars Lacroix with the task of transporting the increasing population of the new town of Cergy-Pontoise.

The Société de Transport Interurbains du Val d'Oise, or STIVO, is the bus company operating urban buses in Cergy-Pontoise in the département of Val-d'Oise, France.

Un début dans la vie

The Comte de Sérizy, before his death, obtained for him the collectorship at Pontoise.


2011 French Figure Skating Championships

The Junior Championships took place from 1–3 April 2011 at the Patinoire de Cergy-Pontoise in Cergy.

An Inland Voyage

They then went by rail to France, starting downriver at Maubeuge and ending at Pontoise, close to the Seine.

Camille Pissarro

They lived outside of Paris in Pontoise and later in Louveciennes, both of which places inspired many of his paintings including scenes of village life, along with rivers, woods, and people at work.

Gare de Persan-Beaumont

Since it is the last station before Picardie, STIF fare structures no longer apply beyond it (except on trains linking Pontoise and Creil).

Jean de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

After the reconciliation between France and Burgundy in the Treaty of Arras (1435), he returned in French service under King Charles VII of France, and chased the English from Pontoise and Paris.

Joan II of Navarre

Later on she exchanged Angoulême for three estates in Vexin:- Pontoise, Beaumont-sur-Oise, and Asnière-sur-Oise.

Jouy-le-Moutier

A viaduct crossing the Rue de la Vallée was built in 1912 carrying the CGB line from Maurecourt to Pontoise following the River Oise valley.

Walter Montagu

Through her influence he was made abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Nanteuil, in the diocese of Metz, and subsequently the commendatory abbacy of St. Martin, near Pontoise, was conferred upon him.