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unusual facts about Roissy-en-Brie


Bierville Elegies

Once Riba and his family embarked on the path of exile in France at the end of the Spanish Civil War, they settled in the castle of Roissy-en-Brie and there began to be created what were later to become the Elegies.


Alicia Fox

On the special Old School edition of Raw on January 8, Fox teamed with Aksana against The Bella Twins in winning effort with Aksana pinning Brie Bella.

Andrée Putman

From the 1980s, she led more and more interior design projects: hotels such as Le Lac in Japan, Im Wasserturm in Germany and the Sheraton in Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris; stores for Azzedine Alaia, Balenciaga, Bally and Lagerfeld; offices, particularly the one for French Minister of Culture Jack Lang in 1984; and museums like the CAPC, Bordeaux’s contemporary art museum.

Augustin Dupré

Augustin Dupré (6 October 1748, Saint-Étienne - 30 January 1833, Armentières-en-Brie) was an engraver of French currency and medals, the 14th Graveur général des monnaies (Engraver General of Currency).

Brie

Camembert is a similar soft cheese, also made from cow's milk.

Despite the variety of bries, the French government officially certifies only two types of cheese to be sold under that name: Brie de Meaux and Brie de Melun.

Casomorphin

β-casomorphins are found in cheeses made from bovine milk; their concentrations are higher in mould cheeses (e.g. Brie, Rokpol) than in semi-hard cheeses (e.g. Edam, Gouda and Kasztelan).

Chappe et Gessalin

Chappe et Gessalin (CG) was a French automobile maker founded in 1946 which commenced manufacturing complete cars in Brie-Comte-Robert, Seine-et Marne in 1957.

Charles Étienne Louis Camus

Charles Étienne Louis Camus (25 August 1699 – 2 February 1768), was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Crécy-en-Brie, near Meaux.

Château de Condé

Since the time of pre-Roman civilisation, the village of Condé-en-Brie was inhabited.

The Château de Condé is a private estate in Condé-en-Brie, Aisne, France, set in its park with three-hundred-year-old trees, on the Champagne route and 100 km from Paris.

Europa City

The first aspect considered how well each group accounted for an inclusion of Europa City within the greater area of Roissy-en-France and within the public development project already taking place in and around Gonesse.

Germain Doucet

According to F. René Perron of Sèvres, Germain Doucet is from La Verdure, which is 10 kilometres north of Coutran, in the Bassevelle parish, which is in Champagne Brie.

Guy Gaucher

Guy Gaucher, born 5 March 1930, Tournan-en-Brie, is a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite religious.

Houssaye

La Houssaye-en-Brie, a commune in the Seine et Marne department in the great east of Paris

Isabella, Countess of Brienne

The impoverished family was not able to provide better, and Isabella married a Walloon knight, Walter III of Enghien, whose lordships in and around the Hainaut were not unsubstantial (Condé, Enghien).

Jacques Champion de Chambonnières

Chambonnières's financial situation probably ceased to be stable already in the early 1650s, when the Fronde armies laid the Brie region to waste.

James Mayer de Rothschild

In 1854 James de Rothschild commissioned the famous architect Joseph Paxton to build the Château de Ferrières in Ferrières-en-Brie, some 35 km east of Paris.

Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre

Joan instead was married on 12 February 1352 to Charles the Bad, at Chateau du Vivier, close to Fontenay-Trésigny in Brie, Coutevroult.

Louis Couperin

On 22 October 1655 he stood godfather to his sister's child at Chaumes-en-Brie; from July to October 1656 and around November 1658 he was frequently travelling to Meudon, where he was probably employed by Abel Servien, a diplomat and statesman.

Pierre Lescot

His father, also Pierre Lescot, was sieur of Lissy-en-Brie and Clagny, not far from Versailles, seigneuries that his son Pierre inherited.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

In the year 1659 he fell into disgrace for having taken part in an orgy at Roissy near Paris during Holy Week, which caused great scandal.

Roissy-en-France

Roissy is the location where the action of the two explicit sadomasochistic novels Story of O (Histoire d'O), and its sequel Retour à Roissy by Pauline Réage take place.

The closest station to Roissy-en-France is Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1 station on line B of the Paris Region's express suburban rail system, the RER.

Roissy–Picardie Link

The Roissy–Picardie Link would link the LGV Interconnexion Est, at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, to a regional railway line heading north towards Creil.

Sandrine Thiébaud-Kangni

Sandrine Carmen Genevieve Thiébaud-Kangni (born April 21, 1976 in Sucy-en-Brie, France) is a French-born Togolese sprinter and heptathlete.

Sergei Winogradsky

In 1922, he accepted an invitation to head the division of agricultural bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute at an experimental station at Brie-Comte-Robert, France, about 30 km from Paris.

Surprise of Meaux

Taking as his pretext that the king was threatened by Italian plans to capture him, on 28 September 1567 Condé invaded the château de Montceaux in Brie, near Meaux, in order to arrest the king's person.

Thomas Highgate

On 5 September, as his battalion moved forward to take part in the First Battle of the Marne, Highgate was apprehended in a barn on the estate of Baron de Rothschild at Tournan-en-Brie by the gamekeeper.

Whitestone Cheese

Other varieties made include Waitaki Camembert, Whitestone Farmhouse, Whitestone Brie, Mt Domet Double Cream Brie, Moeraki Bay Blue, Highland Blue, Totara Tasty, Manuka Feta, and four sheep's milk cheeses (notably Monte Cristo).


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