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2 unusual facts about Roger d'Ivry


Roger d'Ivry

Roger d'Ivry or d'Ivri or Roger Perceval (died 1079) was an 11th-century nobleman from Ivry-la-Bataille in Normandy.

He was succeeded on his death by his eldest son Roger, who was forced to flee to Normandy after William Rufus seized the English throne in 1087 and died there soon afterwards.


Benjamin Ivry

Ivry is author of biographies of Francis Poulenc, Arthur Rimbaud, and Maurice Ravel, as well as a poetry collection, Paradise for the Portuguese Queen.

Mon Docteur, Le Vin (My Doctor, Wine) by Gaston Derys with Watercolors by Raoul Dufy, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10133-3

Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Benjamin Ivry with Renata Gorczynski and Clare Cavanagh, 2002, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-22096-4

Ivry has written about the arts for a variety of periodicals including The New York Observer, New York Sun, New England Review, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, The New Statesman, The New York Times, Bloomberg.com, and The Washington Post.

Boulevard de la Zone

One side marks the border of Ivry-sur-Seine from which it was annexed to Paris on April 19, 1929.

Brasier

Nevertheless, Brasier retained the premises originally acquired by the Richard-Brasier company in Ivry, then as now just outside the ring formed by the old city walls (today followed by the "Périphérique" motor-way) on the southern edge of central Paris.

Compagnie française de matériel de chemin de fer

The Compagnie française de matériel de chemin de fer (CFMCF) was a French manufacturer of rail equipment, headquartered in Ivry-sur-Seine, with a factory in Maubeuge.

Duke Otto Henry of Brunswick-Harburg

In 1590, he led the cavalry of the Duke Alessandro Farnese in the Eighty Years' War and showed great courage in the battle of Ivry on 14 March 1590.

Earl of Clare

The late earl's sisters, Eleanor, Margaret (now widowed after the death of Piers Gaveston) and Elizabeth were by 1317 all married to favourites of Edward II: Hugh Despenser the Younger, Hugh de Audley and Roger d'Amory respectively.

Georges Richard

His first automobile manufacturing business, "Société des Anciens Établissements Georges Richard", was founded in the North-Paris suburb of "Ivry-Port" in 1897 by Georges Richard and his brother Maxime Richard.

Henriade

Voltaire aimed to be the French Virgil, outdoing the master by preserving Aristotelian unity of place—a property of classical tragedy rather than epic—by keeping the human action confined between Paris and Ivry.

Ianna Andreadis

This is a series of portraits of inhabitants of foreign inhabitants of Ivry, with one coming from each country, to comprise a total of 60 portraits.

Italie 13

This district is built on the former location of Panhard factories between Porte d'Ivry and the rue Gandon.

Ivry-sur-le-Lac, Quebec

In 1891, Countess Angela Ogier d'Ivry, from Le Mans (France), bought a farm for her son Viscount Raoul Ogier d'Ivry, who chose the name of the new municipality which formed in 1912 by separating from the parishes of Sainte-Agathe and Saint-Faustin.

José Sentis

José Sentis (* 11 June 1888 in Tarragona (Spain); † 20 March 1983 in Ivry (France)) was a Spanish pianist and composer.

Mad in Paris

It was established in 1992 and was composed of eight musicians and one female singer, Ounsa, who respectively came from the southern suburbs of Paris (Créteil, Ivry et Grigny.

Marie Étienne

From 1979 to 1988, Marie Étienne worked as assistant to the innovative French theater director Antoine Vitez, whose courses on the theater she had followed as part of her doctoral thesis research, at the Théâtre d’Ivry and the Théâtre national de Chaillot.

Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France

At the MJCF congress which took place on 14-17 December 2006 at Ivry-sur-Seine the MJCF decided to direct its struggles along four essential lines, called Quatre chantiers pour changer nos vies et la société (four projects to change our lives and society)

Oscar Nitzchke

In his retirement Nitzchke moved back to Paris, and died in the suburb Ivry-sur-Seine.

Panhard 24

It gave Citroën desperately needed production capacity at Panhard's Ivry plant which from now on produced Citroën 2CV Fourgonettes (light vans) alongside Panhard sedans.

Panhard Dyna X

The Dyna was made production ready and was emerging in commercial quantities from Panhard's Ivry plant by 1948: it set the pattern for Panhard passenger cars until the firm abandoned automobile production in 1967.

Pierre-Gustave Staal

Pierre-Gustave-Eugène Staal (Vertus, 2 September 1817–Ivry, 19 October 1882), was a French artist and draughtsman.

Renée Gailhoustet

Gailhoustet's works are to be found mainly in the Paris suburbs, first and foremost at Ivry-sur-Seine and Aubervilliers, but also in Saint-Denis (renovation of the Ilot Basilique, 1981–1985), Villejuif, Romainville and Villetaneuse.

In 1962, she joined Roland Dubrulle's firm where she worked on plans for renovation of the centre of Ivry-sur-Seine, eventually becoming the architect responsible together with Jean Renaudie.

Robert Goldsand

Ivry, Benjamin, A Music Critic Performs, Practices What He Preaches, published in The New York Observer on September 10, 2006

Rodulf of Ivry

In strategic terms, Ivry was on the boundary of the duchy of Normandy, by an important crossroads on a roman Road, by the valley of the River Eure.

Roger D. Nelson

Until his retirement in 2002, he served as the coordinator of experimental work in the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR), directed by Robert Jahn in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering/Applied Science, Princeton University.

Roger D. Pierce

As of 2008, he is serving as the foreign policy advisor with the U.S. Special Operations Command.

Roger d'Amory

Sir Roger also possessed in his own right the manors of Bletchington and Holton, Oxfordshire, Standon in Hertfordshire, Caythorpe in Lincolnshire, and Knaresborough and St. Briavels' Castles.

He fought at the Battle of Bannockburn where he provided "good services", following which he was granted the manors of Sandal, Yorkshire and Vauxhall, Surrey, in 1317.

Roger Foley

Roger D. Foley (1917-1996), U.S. federal judge, and son of Roger Thomas Foley

Seth Darst

Darst completed postdoctoral training, also at Stanford, as an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lucille P. Markley Postdoctoral Scholar in the laboratory of Roger D. Kornberg.

Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter

In 1418 he went back to Normandy with a large force, taking part in the sieges of Evreux, Ivry, and Rouen.

US Ivry

The club was founded in 1919 by Socialist Youth activists in the name of Union Sportive du Travail d'Ivry (USTI).

Valerian Freyberg, 3rd Baron Freyberg

The son of Colonel the 2nd Baron Freyberg and Ivry Perronelle Katharine, he was educated at Eton College, Berkshire and in the Camberwell College of Arts, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1994.

Voguéo

After 15 minutes of travel from its base, it reached the second stop at the twin Nelson Mandela Bridges which connect the communes of Ivry-sur-Seine and Charenton-le-Pont via the D154 autoroute.

War of the Three Henrys

In the spring, Henry IV returned to the field; he won significant victories at Ivry and Arques and laid siege to Paris (despite being greatly outnumbered), but a Spanish army under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma lifted the siege.


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