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9 unusual facts about Rougemont


Gros Mont

The alp lies at the upper end of the Vallée du Gros Mont, just north of a 1,404 metre high pass connecting Charmey with Rougemont (in the canton of Vaud).

Humbertus Guilielmus de Precipiano

Humbertus Guilielmus de Precipiano (Rougemont, France, 12 September 1627-Mechelen, 9 June 1711) was Archbishop of Mechelen in Belgium.

Le Rubli

Le Rubli (or Rüeblihorn) is a 2,285 metres high mountain in the western Bernese Alps, overlooking Rougemont in the canton of Vaud, near the border with the canton of Berne.

Orange County Speedway

Orange County Speedway is a 3/8 mile (0.6 km) asphalt oval in Orange County, North Carolina, near Rougemont.

Patricia Buckley

Her dark sense of humour was manifested when economist John Kenneth Galbraith brought Ted Kennedy to visit the Buckleys at Rougemont one winter.

Pays-d'Enhaut District

The main valley runs from the village of La Tine in the direction of Gruyères and Bulle to Rougemont, continuing in the direction of Saanen and Gstaad.

Rougemont, Switzerland

The municipality was part of the Pays-d'Enhaut District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Rougemont became part of the new district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut.

The site was probably first settled by a religious order coming from Cluny in France, which had received the land in 1080 from the Count of Gruyère.

Diana, Princess of Wales lived for some time at the city, in the late 1970s and studied at a Finishing School there.


Baron Lisle

Robert de Lisle of Rougemont married Alice FitzGerold (grand-daughter of Henry I FitzGerold (d.1173/4)), the heiress of Kingston in the parish of Sparsholt, Berkshire.

Patricia Buckley

Aside from their home in Stamford, Connecticut, the Buckleys also had an Upper East Side duplex in Manhattan and leased the Chateau de Rougemont, a former monastery, near Gstaad, Switzerland, for the winters.


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