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19 unusual facts about Rambouillet


1st G6 summit

The 1st G6 summit took place on November 15–17, 1975, in Rambouillet, France.

Ange-Félix Patassé

Specializing in zootechnology, he received a diploma from the Center for the Artificial Insemination of Domestic Animals in Rambouillet, France.

Bajram Kosumi

He is a quiet, cerebral politician, who took part in the Rambouillet talks in early 1999, prior to the Kosovo War.

Berystede

The turrets, then both conical, were a delightful reminder of the couple's French connections, for not only was Helene from Rambouillet, but also Henry's family hailed from France his maternal grandfather being the Duke de Poix.

Caroline Wuiet

Caroline Wuiet was the daughter of an organist born and in Rambouillet, France.

Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet

She was married at the age of twelve to Charles d'Angennes, vidame du Mans, and afterwards marquis de Rambouillet.

Occasionally, in spring and summer, the marquis and marquise de Rambouillet would entertain the habitués of their Parisian residence in the château de Rambouillet.

In homage to the Marquise de Rambouillet, the city of Rambouillet has named its Junior High School Collège Catherine de Vivonne.

Château de Saint-Hubert

A painting by Charles-André van Loo ordered in 1758 for the chapel at Saint-Hubert, The conversion of Saint-Hubert is now housed in the église Saint-Lubin-et-Saint-Jean in Rambouillet.

Jean-François Jacqueminot

Elected to the House of Deputies in 1827, he joined in the protest of the Two Hundred and Twenty-one against Polignac, and with Pajol directed the Rambouillet expedition which led Charles X to leave France.

Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe

He was buried in the family crypt in 13th-century Saint-Lubin church of the village of Rambouillet near the Château de Rambouillet, his father's favorite residence.

At the death of his older brother Louis Marie de Bourbon, the Prince of Lamballe became the heir to the Penthièvre fortune, much of which had been extorted by Louis XIV from his childless cousin la Grande Mademoiselle, and bestowed upon Louis XIV's legitimised elder son, Louis Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine.

May 1958 crisis

Subsequently, preparations were made in Algeria for "Operation Resurrection," which had as objectives the seizure of Paris and the removal of the French government, through the use of paratroopers and armoured forces based at Rambouillet.

Pearl White

Living in a fashionable town house in the exclusive Parisian suburb of Passy, she also owned a villa in Rambouillet.

Republic of Kosova

An international conference was held in Rambouillet, France later that spring and resulted in a proposed peace agreement (the Rambouillet Agreement) which was accepted by the ethnic Albanian side but rejected by the Yugoslav Government.

Robert Kocharyan

On February 10–11, 2006, Kocharyan and Aliyev met in Rambouillet, France to discuss the fundamental principles of a settlement to the conflict, including the withdrawal of troops, formation of international peace keeping troops, and the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Romeldale/CVM

The breed's name refers to the Romney rams and Rambouillet ewes which were crossed to create it around 1915.

Santa Cruz sheep

In the mid-19th century, sheep that were most likely of the Merino, Rambouillet (French Merino), or Churro breed were brought to Santa Cruz Island.

Sébastien Faure

In 1904, he created a libertarian school called "La Ruche" (The Hive) close to Rambouillet.


Gentile di Puglia

In the nineteenth century, after the Unification of Italy, there was cross-breeding with imported French Rambouillet and German Merinolandschaf animals, with the aim of further improving the quality of the wool.

Gometz-la-Ville

An experimental Aérotrain was built, from Gometz-le-Châtel to Rambouillet, for test, from 1966 to 1977, from a creation of Jean Bertin (train engineer).

Hôtel de Rambouillet

The précieux refinements of the French language would find some codification in the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française eventually published by the Académie française, which found its start in the Hôtel Rambouillet.

Jean François Sarrazin

As a writer of vers de société he rivalled Voiture, but he was never admitted to the inner circle of the hotel de Rambouillet.

Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe

On November 25 of that year, in a long religious procession, Penthièvre transferred the nine caskets containing the remains of his parents, the comte and the comtesse de Toulouse, his wife, Maria Teresa d'Este, and six of their seven children, from the small medieval village church of Rambouillet, to the chapel of the Collégiale Saint-Étienne in Dreux.