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15 unusual facts about Rueil


Agustín Muñoz, 1st Duke of Tarancón

His remains were buried in a tomb in the cemetery at Rueil-Malmaison.

Alessandro Deljavan

In 1996 he won the 1er Prix, 1er Nommé de la discipline piano classique, degré virtuiosité in Paris, Rueil-Malmaison.

Carrosserie Pourtout

In 1941 Marcel Pourtout was appointed Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine) in 1941, as it was customary at the time to choose someone who headed a business.

Château de la Petite Malmaison

The Château de la Petite Malmaison is a French château from the 19th century in the town of Rueil-Malmaison in the Hauts-de-Seine department.

Edmond Tarbé des Sablons

Tarbé obtained by decree of 13 June 1889 the concession for a tram line between Saint-Germain and Marly-le-Roi, and between Rueil and Courbevoie, where it was connected with the tram from there to the Place de l'Etoile.

Hans Peder Pedersen-Dan

He also designed a monument to Danish volunteers in World War I in Rueil-Malmaison in France and the four statues of queens of the Queens Gate at the new Christiansborg Palace.

Jean Tschumi

After his death, several buildings were completed posthumously: the general headquarters of Sandoz in Rueil-Malmaison, completed in 1968 by Bernard Zehrfuss and the Swiss architect Martin Burckhardt.

Jehan Georges Vibert

During the Franco-Prussian War, Vibert became a sharpshooter and was wounded at the battle of Malmaison in October 1870.

Marcel Jouhandeau

Following the death of Élise in 1971, Jouhandeau finished his last days in Rueil-Malmaison with Marc.

María Amparo Muñoz, 1st Countess of Vista Alegre

Her remains were buried in the tomb of three of her brothers in the cemetery at Rueil-Malmaison.

Philippe Gas

Philippe Gas (born 1964 in at Rueil-Malmaison) is the president of Euro Disney S.A.S., the management company of Euro Disney S.C.A. and Euro Disney Associés S.C.A., the operator of Disneyland Paris.

Pierre Cartellier

Cartellier's statue, modeled from Josephine's kneeling image in the painting of the coronation of Napoléon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David, can be seen at the Church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul in Rueil-Malmaison.

Raymond Abescat

Raymond Abescat (Paris, September 10, 1891 – Rueil-Malmaison, August 15, 2001) was one of the last surviving veterans of World War I in France, its oldest man and the oldest veteran in France at the time of his death.

Robert Paturel

Robert Paturel is a French boxer, born in 1952 in Rueil-Malmaison.

Yaqob

Thomas Pakenham provides a brief sketch of Saga Krestos' European life in his The Mountains of Rasselas, and the book ends with a description of Pakenham's visit to Saga Krestos' grave in Rueil-Malmaison.


Henry Fairs

Born in Hereford, England, he received his earliest musical education as a chorister at Leominster Priory and studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Conservatoire NDR Rueil-Malmaison and the Hochschule für Musik Köln, supported by an award from the Countess of Munster Trust.