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4 unusual facts about Reine


Cours-la-Reine

The Cours-la-Reine, also spelled Cours la Reine (without hyphens), is a public park and garden promenade located along the River Seine, between the Place de la Concorde and the Place du Canada, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

Jean-Baptiste Robin

He continued composition studies with George Benjamin (King's College London) and organ studies with Louis Robilliard (Conservatoire de Lyon, Prix de Perfectionnement), Odile Bailleux (Conservatoire de Bourg-la-Reine, Prix de Perfectionnement), and Marie-Claire Alain (regional conservatory of Paris).

Thomas Banastre

In 1360, he was fighting in France in the campaign led by Edward III, who also knighted at Bourg-la-Reine.

Vercingetorix in popular culture

The village of Alise-Sainte-Reine holds a yearly festival celebrating Vercingetorix.


12 Rounds 2: Reloaded

On August 3, 2012, it was reported that Renny Harlin would not directing the film in order to do 2014's The Legend of Hercules, and was replaced by Roel Reiné, from the director of The Marine 2 and Pistol Whipped.

Afonso IV of Portugal

The dramatic situation between father and son and Inês, became plots in more than twenty operas, as well as "Nise lastimosa" and "Nise laureada" (1577) by Jerónimo Bermúdez, 'Reinar despues de morir' by Luís Vélez de Guevara, "Inez de Castro" by Mary Russell Mitford, and La Reine morte (The Dead Queen) by Henry de Montherlant.

Automotive industry in Spain

A 25cv sports version of the Tipo 20 was produced in 1919 as the Reine Victoria (name of the Queen consorts).

Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick

The Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick (in French: Cour du Banc de la Reine du Nouveau-Brunswick) is the superior court of the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

Émile-Alexandre Taskin

Having made his debut in 1875 in L'enfance du Christ by Berlioz, his stage debut was in September 1875 in Amiens, as Roland in Les mousquetaires de la reine by Halévy.

Flavigny-sur-Ozerain

In the mid-9th century, in response to the increasing frequency of Viking raids, the relics of Ste Reine or Regina were removed from the nearby town of Alise to Flavigny in the hopes that they could be better protected in a more fortified setting.

Fort La Reine

The elder Verendrye left Fort Maurepas at the mouth of the Red River in September 1738, ascended that river to the present site of Winnipeg, ascended the Assiniboine and on October 3 chose a site for Fort La Reine.

Jean Grenier

He filled notebooks with details of his relationships with Francine Camus, René Char, Louis Guilloux, Jean Giorno, André Malraux and Manès Sperber and with the editorial team of the Nouvelle Nouvelle Revue française, as well as his conversations with numerous contemporary artists who visited him at his home in Bourg-la-Reine.

Joseph Boniface de La Môle

He is portrayed by Swiss actor Vincent Pérez in the film La Reine Margot and Dmitry Kharatyan in the Russian miniseries "La Reine Margot" ("Королева Марго" (1996).

Jules Quicherat

In one point he seems to have taken a false step; with a warmth and pertinacity worthy of a better cause he maintained the identity of Caesar's Alesia with Alaise, and he died without becoming a convert to the opinion, now almost universally accepted, that Alise Sainte-Reine is the place where Vercingetorix capitulated.

Kings and Queen

Rois et reine (English title: Kings and Queen) is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin.

Le Mesnil-Lieubray

A fourteenth-century fortified manorhouse called the Château de la Reine Blanche (allegedly owned by Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan).

Liber de Causis

Otto Bardenhewer, Die pseudo-aristotelische Schrift ueber das reine Gute bekannt unter dem Namen Liber de Causis: Arabic text, German translation

Middleton Place

Three of the four planted at the corners of the main parterre survive, grown to fifteen feet: One is Camellia japonica "reine des fleurs"; the other is an ancestor of the modern cultivar Charles Sprague Sargent.

Paolo Longo

He has also earned second prizes and special mentions in Rome (Premio Valentino Bucchi), Piacenza (Egidio Carella Competition), Geneva (Prix Reine Marie José), Urbana-Champaign (Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award), Angoulême, Cuneo, Auckland and many others.

Régiment de la Reine

A mounted regiment the Régiment de la reine dragons (Queen's Dragoons), was raised in 1673, named like its infantry counterpart in honour of the queen consort Marie-Thérèse of Spain.

Swiss cottage, Cahir

Armagh (National Trust); and the Petit hameau de la Reine at Versailles.

Ulmus 'Australis'

Augustine Henry described lines of the trees along the Cours-la-Reine in Rouen planted in 1649 by the Duc de Longueville; several of which were still alive in 1912, having attained a height of about 28 m.


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