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2 unusual facts about Rue Édouard-Herriot


Rue Édouard-Herriot

There are also a Virgin Megastores, a worship place of Friends of Man and the office of the international festivals of Lyon.

At number 72, a plaque referring prince of the singers Xavier Privas.


George Cunningham

G. H. Cunningham (George Herriot Cunningham, 1892–1962), New Zealand mycologist and plant pathologist

Hand transplantation

On January 14, 2004, the team of Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard (Edouard-Herriot Hospital, France) declared a five-year-old double hand transplant a success.

Jim Herriot

Herriot is probably best-known today for giving his name to the writer James Herriot, a Yorkshire vet whose real name was Alf Wight.

Piccalilli

This story was also published by Reader's Digest magazine (and several Herriot compilations) under the title "The Piccalilli Saves My Bacon".

The semi-autobiographical book Vet In Harness (published in North America as All Things Bright And Beautiful) by James Herriot includes an amusing anecdote in which Herriot uses a particularly spicy piccalilli to help make an unsavory meal more palatable and avoid offending his well-meaning hosts.

Stuart Herriot

Stuart Herriot (25 April 1812, Swinton & Simprim, Berwickshire – 21 February 1885 in Penang, Malaysia) was a British born trader based in Penang since the 1830s.


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