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2 unusual facts about Rue


Le Chateau du Broutel

Le Château du Broutel is an 18th-century Château situated in Rue.

Robert Strachan Wallace

In 1918 he was posted to the A.I.F. Education Service in Cambridge, England and served as the director of the Australian Corps Central School at Rue, France.


Antoine Vollon

Two streets in France are named for him: Rue Antoine Vollon in Bessancourt and in Paris, whilst an intersection with a fountain in Lyon is named Place Antoine Vollon.

Autheuil-Authouillet

It was the home of Simone Signoret and Yves Montand, after whom the village's main street, the rue Yves Montand, is named.

Briey

The steeply angled “grand-rue” (“Main Street”) connects the two areas of the town, which elsewhere are separated by a cliff-face garden.

Calling Card

As with the rest of the reissues, the album featured remastered sound, newly-written liner notes by Gallagher's brother Donal, and bonus tracks "Rue the Day" and "Public Enemy" (an early version of a track that later appeared on Gallagher's 1979 album Top Priority).

Canton of Marseille – Notre-Dame-Limite

It is composed of the part of the 14th municipal arrondissement of Marseille situated north-west of avenue du Marché-National, rue Jean-Queillau, chemin de Saint-Joseph à Sainte-Marthe, cité Saint-Joseph, boulevard Roland-Dorgelès, cité Les Micocouliers, boulevard Roland-Dorgelès, chemin du Petit-Fontainieu and traverse des Arcades.

Canton of Marseille-La Capelette

It is composed of the part of the 5th arrondissement of Marseille south of an imaginary line along rue Saint-Pierre, boulevard Jean-Moulin, boulevard Baille (excluded) and rue du Berceau (excluded) until avenue de Toulon.

Canton of Marseille-Montolivet

It then continues along avenue de la Fourragère, avenue des Caillols, avenue de la Figonne, traverse de Courtrai, traverse du Fort-Fouque, avenue du 24-avril-1915, rue Pierre-Béranger, traverse des Massaliottes, chemin des Sables, rue de Charleroi, boulevard des Fauvettes, boulevard Pinatel, chemin des Amaryllis and finally rue Charles-Kaddouz until it meets the 13th municipal arrondissement.

Canton of Marseille-Verduron

It is composed of the part of the 15th arrondissement of Marseille situated north of a line composed of the following streets: chemin du Littoral, traverse Santi, rue Séverine (excluded), chemin de la Madrague-Ville and chemin de Saint-Louis-au-Rove until it meets traverse de l'Aqueduc.

Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel

In 1823 Mirbel married Lizinska Aimée Zoé Rue, a French painter of miniatures.

Club de Clichy

The political club that came to be called the Clichyens met in rooms in the rue de Clichy, which led west towards the fashionable Parisian suburb of Clichy.

Conrad Gugy

In 1980, a street - Rue Conrad Gugy - was named for him in Yamachiche, Quebec.

Cut Killer

As The Hip-Hop Soul Party and Cut Killer Show series reached the top of the charts and brought in gold and platinum awards, Killer delegated R&B to his long time accomplice, DJ Abdel, West Coast music to the specialist DJ Cream, and gave himself a try with dancehall Ragga Killa Show, before coming back to the French sound with 1 Son 2 Rue.

Diego Giacometti

They shared the same sculpture studio at 46 rue Hippolyte-Maindron in Paris until the ends of their lives and executed the commissions of their cultured clients such as the Maeght and Noailles families.

Edison-Lalande cell

In 1880, the manufacturer De Branville and Company of 25 rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris exploited the patent of Lalande and Chaperon to build copper oxide batteries.

Édouard Chimot

Between 1923 and 1931, from his atelier in the rue Ampère, he oversaw the production of a wonderful array of books illustrated by such artists as Pierre Brissaud, Edgar Chahine, Alméry Lobel-Riche, and Tsuguharu Foujita.

Église du Bon-Pasteur

The Église du Bon-Pasteur is located rue Neyret on the slopes of La Croix-Rousse, near the montée de la Grande Côte, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon.

Fondation Le Corbusier

It now owns Villa La Roche and Villa Jeanneret (which form the foundation's headquarters), as well as the apartment occupied by Le Corbusier from 1933 to 1965 at rue Nungesser et Coli in Paris 16e, and the "Small House" he built for his parents in Corseaux on the shores of Lac Leman (1924).

François Racine de Monville

He was also noted for originality as an architect, designing two town houses, the Grand and Petit Hotel de Monville, which were built by architect Étienne-Louis Boullée in Paris at the corner of the rue d'Anjou and rue Saint-Honoré in Paris.

Gabriel Van Dievoet

He settled initially rue Faider, then at the 91, rue Souveraine at Ixelles, Brussels.

Gustave Biéler

The "rue du Commandant Guy Biéler" in Saint-Quentin was named for him and as one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, he is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département.

Hanns Martin Schleyer

After Schleyer's kidnappers received the news of the death of their imprisoned comrades, Schleyer was taken from Brussels on October 18, 1977, and shot dead en route to Mulhouse, France, where his body was left in the trunk of a green Audi 100 on the rue Charles Péguy.

How the Poor Die

In March 1929 he was feeling unwell and spent two weeks in the Hôpital Cochin, rue Faubourg Saint-Jacques, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

Illa Conillera

The land is rocky and arid which supports very little vegetation apart from such shrubs and herbs as Rosemary, Thyme and Rue, which grow in abundance here.

Jean-Jacques Bachelier

Admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1752, he founded an art school using his own means in Paris in 1765 for the artisans in the historic collège d'Autun (rue de l'école de médecine), which survived until the 19th century.

Joseph Zobel

While La Rue Cases-Nègres is Zobel's most renowned work, the author started his writing career in 1942 during World War Two with Diab-la (a tentative English title could be "The Devil's Garden"), a socially conscious novel similar to Jacques Roumain's Masters of the Dew (published a year or more later).

Kimlinh Tran

She has recorded voices for video game developers such as Winter Wolves (Always Remember Me, Loren The Amazon Princess) and Wadjet Eye Games (Gemini Rue).

Marthe Mercadier

In 2011, she has participated in Danse avec les stars (French version of Dancing with the Stars) and in the Balajo's anniversary, the famous night-club rue de Lappe in Paris.

Mary Stein

As her career developed, she played roles such as Miss Floom, the landlady and owner of the Flealands Hotel in Babe: Pig in the City and Miss Rue Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Mercure de France

Vallette was closely linked to a group of writers associated with Symbolism who regularly met at the café la Mère Clarisse in Paris (rue Jacob), and which included: Jean Moréas, Émile Raynaud, Pierre Arène, Remy de Gourmont, Alfred Jarry, Albert Samain and Charles Cros.

Musée de la Serrure

The Musée de la Serrure, also known as the Musée de la Serrurerie or the Musée Bricard, is a private museum of locks and keys located in the 3rd arrondissement at 1 rue de la Perle, Paris, France.

Pierre Brossolette

Buildings in Paris such as the former bookstore and nearby Lycée Janson de Sailly's court at Rue de la Pompe, the residence at Rue de Grenelle, his birthplace at rue Michel-Ange, the Maison de Radio France and the Ministry of the Interior's court at Rue des Saussaies all feature commemorative plaques and his name is mentioned on a floor plaque at the Panthéon.

Quai Voltaire

The Quai Voltaire begins at the Rue des Saints-Pères and ends at the Rue de Bac and the Pont Royal.

R. graveolens

Ruta graveolens, the common rue or herb-of-grace, a flowering plant species native to the Balkan Peninsula

René Lévesque Boulevard

A portion of the thoroughfare located in the largely anglophone city of Westmount, between Clarke and Atwater, retains the name "Boulevard Dorchester", as does a portion in the mainly French-speaking Montréal-Est, where it is known as "Rue Dorchester."

Rue de la Paix, Paris

Charles Frederick Worth was the first to open a couture house at 7 rue de la Paix, and in 1885 created the label of his salon "Worth 7, Rue de la Paix".

Rue de Richelieu

The old Fauré Le Page store located 8 rue de Richelieu at the corner of the rue de Richelieu and the rue de Montpensier.

Rue Lainerie

In its northern part, at the junction with the Rue François Vernay, several old houses were razed in 1911, under the mandate of President Édouard Herriot, during development works of the district which included the construction of the Gare de Lyon-Saint-Paul (1874) and the Palais de Bondy, housing the Salle Molière (1904).

Rue Montorgueil

At the southernmost tip of rue Montorgueil is Saint-Eustache Church, and Les Halles, containing the largest indoor (mostly underground) shopping mall in central Paris; and to the north is the area known as the Grand Boulevards.

Rue Mouffetard, Paris

At the beginning of Chapter IV of The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway describes a taxicab heading down the Rue Mouffetard from the Place Contrescarpe.

Steven E. Wedel

Wedel has earned praise from fellow authors Tom Piccirilli, Gary A. Braunbeck, Brian Keene and others, as well as from genre and mainstream publications like City Slab, Blood Rose and Rue Morgue magazines and The Oklahoman newspaper.

The Black Cap

The character Mrs Shufflewick was celebrated by artists such as Danny La Rue, Roy Hudd, Bob Monkhouse, Barry Cryer and Barry Humphries.

Théâtre Verlaine

The Théâtre Verlaine was a theater located at 66 rue de Rochechouart in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.

Théodore Année

Théodore Année, a wealthy, retired French diplomatic consul in South America, returned to France in the mid-1840s and settled in rue des Réservoirs, Passy, Paris, where he devoted himself to the culture of tropical plants from South America, having brought back with him the taste for plants with beautiful foliage, especially the Canna genus.

Thomas de la Rue

Thomas de la Rue (24 March 1793 – 7 June 1866) was a printer from Guernsey who, from modest beginnings, founded De La Rue plc, a printing company which is now the world's largest commercial security printer and papermaker.

Thomas Pink

Now part of the LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey) group, Thomas Pink is a leading international luxury shirt brand with flagship stores in London’s Jermyn Street, Madison Avenue, New York and Rue Francois Premier, Paris.

Turbigo

The battle is commemorated in the name of rue de Turbigo, a Paris street.

Vita Sackville-West

Lady Sackville, Vita's mother, invited Rosamund to visit the family at their villa in Monte Carlo; Rosamund also stayed with Vita at Knole, at Rue Lafitte, and at Sluie.

Warren De la Rue

He was born in Guernsey, the son of the founder of the large firm of stationers of that name in London, Thomas de la Rue and Jane (née Warren).

Yvan Colonna

On the 6th of February 1998 at 9:05 pm, the prefect of Corsica, Claude Érignac, was assassinated as he exited a theatre onto rue Colonna-d'Ornano in Ajaccio.


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