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unusual facts about Rivière-du-Loup


Rivière-du-Loup

This name may have come from a native tribe known as "Les Loups" or from the many seals, known in French as loup-marin (sea wolves), once found at the river's mouth.


Alphonse Couturier

Alphonse Couturier (Liberal politician) (1902–1995), a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Rivière-du-Loup

Alva Belmont

She also purchased the 15th-century Château d'Augerville in Augerville-la-Rivière, Loiret, in the summer of 1926 and restored it as her primary residence.

Anna Abrikosova

Finally, she approached the parish priest of the large, aristocratic Church of the Madeleine in Paris, Abbé Maurice Rivière, who later became Bishop of Périgueux.

Bambous

Bambous, Mauritius, a village in the district of Rivière Noire, Mauritius

Camden Riviere

Riviere learned to play tennis in his hometown of Aiken, South Carolina under Mark Devine at the Aiken Tennis Club.

Cantonnier Lode

Higher up on its left hillslope passes the D 707 from Nontron to Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière.

Deep Water, West Virginia

However, according to local legend as recounted by H. Reid in The Virginian Railway (Kalmbach, 1961), it was named by Squire James Galsepy Kincaid and other locals on a rainy day in 1871 as a commentary on the standing groundwater outside the new post office along Loup Creek.

Enrique Pichon-Rivière

He attended high school in the city of Goya and, upon completion, he founded the Partido Socialista de Goya.

Georges Henri Rivière

In 1929 and 1930, Rivière was on the editorial board of Documents, to which he also contributed articles, such as “The Ethnographical museum of the Trocadéro" (1929, issue 1), as well as chronicles on popular culture such as “Religion and ‘Folies-Bergère’” (1930, issue 4), and profiles on jazz musicians such as Eddie South and Hayman Swayze.

Grande-Rivière-du-Nord

Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born there in 1758 on the Cormiers plantation.

Henri Bourassa Boulevard

Spanning 29 kilometres in length, it links the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles in the east to Autoroute 13 in the West Island.

Henri Karjalainen

He raced for Jensen MotorSport finishing 17th in overall standings with 10th position in Grand Prix de Trois-Rivière being his best individual finish.

Highway 25 Bridge

Olivier-Charbonneau Bridge, over the Rivière des Prairies, between Laval and Montreal, in Quebec, Canada

Jean Lacouture

He is mainly known to the public because of his biographies, including the lives of Ho Chi Minh, Nasser, Léon Blum, De Gaulle, François Mauriac, Pierre Mendès-France, Mitterrand, Montesquieu, Montaigne, Malraux, Germaine Tillion, Champollion, Rivière, Stendhal and Kennedy.

Joan Riviere

Riviere married Evelyn Riviere, a barrister and son of artist Briton Rivière in 1906.

John Wesley Wright

He was subjected to repeated examinations as to whether he had not put on shore in France some royalist agents: Georges, Pichegru, Rivière, and others were named.

Josune Bereziartu

Bain de Sang in St Loup, Switzerland, had its first ascent (FA) by Fred Nicole and was the third 9a route in the world.

La Musica Lirica

Recent conductors, stage directors and vocal faculty include Alberto Zedda, Joseph Rescigno, Candace Evans, Francois Loup, Dejan Miladinovic, Ubaldo Fabbri, Julia Faulkner, Mary Anne Scott, Karen Peeler, John DeHaan, Kathy Kraulik, Brooks Hafey, Robert Breault, Emily Williams, Jeffrey Price and Dennis Jesse.

La Rivière de notre enfance

"La Rivière de notre enfance" is the name of a 2004 song recorded in duet by the Canadian singer Garou and the French artist Michel Sardou.

La Rivière Espérance

La Rivière Espérance is a French TV series, 9 episodes of 90 minutes each, directed by Josée Dayan based on the novel by Christian Signol and shown in 1995 on France 2.

Le Puy Mine

It is situated roughly 4 km southeast of Nontron on the right hand side of the D 707 from Nontron to Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière, at an elevation of 280 m above sealevel.

Lew Archer

Le Loup de la côte Ouest (2002, Hugo Santiago from the short story "Guilt-Edged Blonde") starring James Faulkner as Lew Millar.

Liu Yongfu

Like Francis Garnier ten years earlier, Rivière was killed in the battle.

Lizzie Brocheré

In 2001 the then 16-year-old Brocheré made her leap to the big screen as Jeanne in Hugo Santiago's Le Loup de la côte ouest (English title: The Wolf of the West Coast).

Louis Paradis

After he obtained his Degree in graphic design from CEGEP of Rivière-du-Loup, he learned the craft of comic book especially by observing the work of artists like John Buscema, Harold Foster, Burne Hogarth, Jean Giraud dit Moebius, Jack Kirby, Barry Windsor-Smith, and also André Juillard.

Malheur River

The name first appears in the record in 1826 when Peter Skene Ogden, a fur trapper with the Hudson's Bay Company, referred to it as "River au Malheur (from rivière au Malheur, literally: River of the Misfortune)" and thereafter as "Unfortunate River."

Nebraska Outback

The outback is connected with the rest of Nebraska by way of four Nebraska byways: Bridges to Buttes Byway (Highway 20), the Outlaw Trail (Highway 12) and small sections of the Loup Rivers Scenic Byway (Highways 91/11), and the Sandhills Journey (Highway 2) in Blaine County.

Neuil mine

The mine is situated about 1 kilometer north of Neuil, a small hamlet in the commune of Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière.

Plœuc-sur-Lié

The Count de La Rivière was the ancestor of Lafayette, who sold his estates at Ploeuc to cover the expenses which fell on him as a result of the American War of Independence.

Riviera di Chiaia

Mark Twain calls this street "Riviere di Chiaja" in his book The Innocents Abroad.

Rivière-à-la-Lime

In its course, the river flows through the Route 361 of the “rang Rivière à la lime" (row). The “rivière à la lime” empties into the Batiscan River, towards la “Grande pointe” (great point of land), above the village of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan.

(See E.-Z. Massicotte, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan).

The pioneers of the current territory of Saint-Narcisse from Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan followed the path of the “Rivière à la Lime” and forest paths to reach their respective lot located northwest up the morraine.

The Rivière à la lime flows in the municipality of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, in the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, Canada.

The drained basin of the “rivière à la lime” was the third area of colonization in the Lordship of Batiscan up to the 18th Century, after the colonization of the surroundings of St. Lawrence River and Batiscan river.

Robert I, Count of Troyes

Lay abbot of Saint-Loup, he was mentioned for the first time on 25 October 874, when he appeared in a charter of Charles the Bald ceding Chaource, in Tonnerre, to the abbey.

Société des chemins de fer du Québec

Chemin de fer de la Matapédia et du Golfe (former CN Mont Joli and Matane Subdivisions, operates between Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec and Campbellton, New Brunswick and from Mont-Joli to Matane, Quebec.

Susana Seivane

In France she has performed in concert in Paris, Nantes, Lyons, Les Irlandays, Juvisy sur Orge, the Festival du Bout du Monde and the Festival de Saint-Loup in Guingamp.

Télé-Québec

Télé-Québec (and its predecessor, Radio-Québec) was also assigned channel 2 in Rivière-du-Loup, channel 10 in Lithium Mines and channel 21 in Mont-Laurier.

Verlet

Verlet integration, a technique for computer simulation of molecular dynamics developed by Loup Verlet


see also

Étienne Jeanneau

On 14 June 1709 Jeanneau was granted a commission as a court officer and notary for the large territory encompassing Grande-Anse, Rivière-Ouelle, Kamouraska, Rivière-du-Loup, and Port-Joli.

Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac

The cities of importance close to Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac are Rivière-du-Loup, at 60 km to the north-west, Trois-Pistoles at 65 km to the north, Rimouski at 110 km north-east, and Edmundston in New Brunswick, at 60 km to the south-west.