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unusual facts about Rochefort, Savoie


L'Art de Vivre

After the end of the first world war, she was delivered along the north and west coasts of France and taken to Rochefort in the River Charente estuary.


Abondance

Abondance, Haute-Savoie, a commune of the Haute-Savoie département in France

Agglomeration community of Annemasse – Les Voirons

Annemasse - Les Voirons is an intercommunal structure located in Haute-Savoie, France.

Alfred Vaucher

Vaucher also taught at Saleve Adventist University, Collonges-sous-Salève, Haute-Savoie, a French biblical college, from 1921-1941 and 1945-1983.

Anthoine Lussier

Anthoine Lussier (born 8 February 1983 in Bonneville) is a professional French ice hockey player who participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the France National men's ice hockey team.

Auxerre Cathedral

Stimulus was provided about 1270 by Jean de Châlons-Rochefort, who had recently become Count of Auxerre, having supported the Duke of Burgundy against his own brother, by marrying Alix, the heiress of Auxerre.

Battle of Méribel

The Battle of Méribel took place at Méribel, above Sallanches, Haute-Savoie, France, on 13 September 1793, when the forces of the Duchy of Savoy were defeated by the French Army.

Bernard Bosquier

Bernard Bosquier (born 19 June 1942 in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie) is a former French international footballer who played as a defender.

Borvo

Many of the sites where offerings to Borvo have been found are in Gaul: inscriptions to him have been found in Drôme at Aix-en-Diois, Bouches-du-Rhône at Aix-en-Provence, Gers at Auch, Allier at Bourbon-l'Archambault, Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Saône-et-Loire at Bourbon-Lancy, in Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Haute-Marne at Bourbonne-les-Bains and in Nièvre at Entrains-sur-Nohain.

CAMIVA

CAMIVA, an initialism for Constructeurs Associés de Matériels d'Incendie, Voirie et Aviation, (English for Associated Constructors of Fire Equipment, Roads and Aviation) is a French company which specializes in equipment for fire and rescue founded in 1970, near Chambéry, in Saint-Alban-Leysse in the department of Savoie, France.

Col du Corbier

Col du Corbier is a French Alpine pass located in Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France between the towns of Le Biot and Bonnevaux (Haute-Savoie).

Colette Alliot-Lugaz

Born in Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe, she began her musical studies in Bonneville (Haute Savoie), and later in Geneva, with Magda Fonay-Besson.

Édouard-Jean Empain

The rendezvous set by the kidnappers was to take place two days later at Megève, a winter resort in Haute-Savoie.

Entremont

Entremont, Haute-Savoie, a municipality of the Haute-Savoie département in France

Ernest Failloubaz

With this aircraft Failloubaz participated at the flight meeting in Viry, Haute-Savoie, in August 1910 and dared what no one else had ever attempted before: Stopping the engine in flight, gliding and restarting his engine.

Frederick Charles of Stolberg-Gedern

After his father's death in 1710 he received by his father's will dated 23 January 1699 the Lordship of Gedern and one sixth of the Lordship of Rochefort.

Gabrielle Weidner

She grew up in Switzerland, close to the French border at Collonges-sous-Salève - a village in the French department of Haute-Savoie where her father, Johan Henry Weidner Sr. taught Latin and Greek at the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Georges Gimel

On January 21, 1962, a sunny Sunday, he died suddenly while ice skating with a young woman at the skating rink at Megève (Haute-Savoie).

Guiers

Saint-Genix-sur-Guiers, a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes, France

Guy Savoie

Savoie first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1973, campaigning as a Liberal in Brandon West.

Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz

Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1 March 1790 – 31 October 1836), married in 1822 to Princess Gasparine of Rohan-Rochefort, had issue.

Henry Blackwood

Early in 1798 Brilliant was sent out to join Admiral Waldegrave on the Newfoundland station; and on 26 July, whilst standing close in to the bay of Santa Cruz in quest of a French privateer, she observed the frigates Vertu and Régénérée preparing to sail for Rochefort.

Install Party des Savoie

During a day, people from Pays de Savoie, which is both Savoie and Haute-Savoie departements, is welcomed to get familiar with a new desktop environment, GNU/Linux, renowned for its ability to be reliable and virus-free.

Isabelle de Meulan

Her paternal grandparents were Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester and Elisabeth de Vermandois, and her maternal grandparents were Amaury III de Montfort, Count of Evreux, and Agnès de Garlande, daughter of Anseau de Garlande, Count of Rochefort, and Beatrice de Montlhery.

Jean Gaspard de Vence

After the coup of Fructidor V-18 of the year was appointed Commander of Toulon arms, took an active part in preparing the fleet for the Egyptian expedition and provided logistical base in Italy, on the island of Malta and in Egypt, May 25, 1799 - Commander of Arms Rochefort.

Joseph de Maistre

His mother's family, whose surname was Desmotz, were from Rumilly.

Joseph François Michaud

He was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg-en-Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the rest of his life.

L'Épine

Chaîne de l'Épine, a mountain ridge in the department of Savoie, near Chambéry

Laurent Chappis

Chappis is also credited along with the architect Denis Pradelle with creating a modern, functional style of mountain architecture which rejected both traditional Savoie styles and the Tyrolean chalet style of architecture.

Léon Germain Pelouse

He moved to Britanny, there, inspired by nature around Pont-Aven and Rochefort-en-Terre, Pelouse realised landscapes which were exhibited at the Salon de Paris in the following years.

Lorette, Manitoba

The church is surmounted by three bells, which were poured in Haute-Savoie, France.

Masque d’Or

Established in 1982, the Masque d’Or – Grand Prix (Grand Prize) is jointly organized by the FNCTA and the Charles Dullin Association in Savoie, France.

Michel Lafourcade

Educated at the high school Pierre Loti of Rochefort, then graduated from the school of meteorology of Saint-Cyr-l'École.

Mont Malamot

Currently entirely included in French territory, it separates the valleys of Dora Riparia and Arc.

Nicky Savoie

Nicky John Savoie (born on September 21, 1973 in Cut Off, Louisiana) is a former American football tight end who has a one year career in the National Football League.

Philipp Ferdinand of Limburg-Stirum

The court marshal of Philipp Ferdinand, count de Rochefort-Valcourt, told him about this woman who pretended to be the daughter of Elizabeth I of Russia and granddaughter of Peter the Great.

Potentilla delphinensis

It is endemic to France, where it is limited to the southern French Alps (Savoie et Dauphiné: Bauges; Isère; Hautes-Alpes, Col du Lautaret).

Prince Maurice of Savoy

On 4 June 1627 he became the abbot of the monastery at Abondance and in 1637, on the death of his elder brother Victor Amadeus I, he and his brother Thomas claimed the regency of the duchy against Victor Amadeus's widow Christine Marie of France, but the king supported Christine and confirmed her as regent.

René Grandjean

Immediately repaired, his aircraft was in August 1919 damaged again by Georges Cailler during a flight meeting in Viry, Haute-Savoie.

Richard Rochefort

Richard Rochefort (born January 7, 1977) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Nikkō Ice Bucks of the Asia League Ice Hockey (ALIH).

Roc d'Enfer

The Roc d'Enfer (2,244 m) is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, located west of Morzine in the French department of Haute-Savoie.

Rochefort, Charente-Maritime

The Young Girls of Rochefort film directed by Jacques Demy with Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, and Gene Kelly with music composed by Michel Legrand

L'Hermione, a replica of a 1779 frigate being built in the town

Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rochelle and Saintes

This diocese before the French Revolution, aside from Maillezais, included the present arrondissements of Marennes, Rochefort, La Rochelle, and a part of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.

Signal de Botrange

The average and extreme temperatures are usually lower than at any other place in Belgium: the minimum temperature recorded (-25.6 °C) does not, however, exceed the absolute record (-30.1 °C ), observed in the valley of the Lomme, at Rochefort during a temperature inversion phenomenon.

Théophile Pépin

Born in Cluses, Haute-Savoie, he became a Jesuit in 1846, and from 1850 to 1856 and from 1862 to 1871 he was Professor of Mathematics at various Jesuit colleges.

Verel

Verel-Pragondran and Verel-de-Montbel, two communes in the Savoie department, Rhône-Alpes region, France

Virginie Guyot

She was assigned to the Mirage F1-CR in the Escadron de reconnaissance 2/33 Savoie.


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