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unusual facts about Pyrénées Orientales



Port-Vendres Côte Rocheuse XIII

Port-Vendres Côte Rocheuse XIII are a French Rugby League club based in Port-Vendres, Pyrénées Orientales in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.


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Antoine François Brenier de Montmorand

Brenier enlisted in 1786 and gained rapid promotion during the period of the French Revolutionary Wars, becoming an aide-de-camp in 1792 and in 1793 a Chef de brigade (colonel) in the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees (Armée des Pyrénées orientales).

Army of the Pyrenees

At the outbreak of the War of the Pyrenees with the Kingdom of Spain, a decree of 30 April 1793 separated the Armée des Pyrénées into the Army of the eastern Pyrenees (Armée des Pyrénées orientales) and the Army of the western Pyrenees (Armée des Pyrénées occidentales).

Fort de Salses

The Fort de Salses (also called Forteresse de Salses) is a Catalan fortress in the commune of Salses-le-Château, situated in the French département of Pyrénées-Orientales.

General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales

The General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales (in French: Conseil Général des Pyrénées-Orientales) is the assembly elected for 6 years by the 31 Cantons of the Pyrénées-Orientales and its executive.

Jean-Pierre Serre

Born in Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, to pharmacist parents, Serre was educated at the Lycée de Nîmes and then from 1945 to 1948 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Koert Vermeulen

A partnership company, Soitec, installed 30 CPV (concentrated PhotoVoltaic) systems in Themis solar power plant, located in Targassonne in the Pyrénées-Orientales department.

Marie Clément Gaston Gautier

Among his published works were Catalogue raisonné de la flore des Pyrénées-Orientales (Catalogue raisonné on the flora of Pyrénées-Orientales, 1898) and Catalogue de la flore des Corbières (Catalog on the flora of the Corbières, being published posthumously in 1912).

Millars

Millars or Millas commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department

Mollo

Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste, commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France

Museum of Musical Instruments, Céret

The Museum of Musical Instruments of Céret (French: Musée des instruments de Céret), also known as MúSIC, is located in Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales).

The history of the museum starts with the local sardana societies: the Foment de la sardane from Céret, leaded by Roger Raynal and Joseph Burch, the Fédération sardaniste du Roussillon (FSR), a collective of sardana societies from Pyrénées-Orientales founded in 1976, and the Institut de musique populaire et méditerranéenne (Popular and mediterranean music institute, IMPEM), as well created by Roger Raynal and acting beyond the borders of the department.

Paul Blanc

Paul Blanc (Ille-sur-Têt, 29 January 1937) is a member of the Senate of France since 1992, and re-elected in 2001, representing the Pyrénées-Orientales department.

Pyrénées-Orientales

Pyrénées-Orientales consists of three river valleys in the Pyrenees mountain range –from north to south, those of the Agly, Têt and Tech– and the eastern Plain of Roussillon into which they converge.

Pyrénées-Orientales corresponds almost exactly to the pre-Revolutionary province of Roussillon, but it also includes Fenolheda, a small piece of territory which had formerly been on the southern edge of Languedoc.

Prades (Catalan Prada de Conflent) - site of the Catalan Summer University (Universitat Catalana d'Estiu).