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unusual facts about SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne



2010–11 Rugby Pro D2 season

Carcassonne and Saint-Étienne, last year's Fédérale 1 two finalists, gained promotion to Pro D2 for the first time in their history, whilst Agen and La Rochelle, respectively champions and promotion play-offs winners, were promoted to the Top 14.

Achille Emaná

The following year, at only 19, he became an important first-team unit for the Ligue 2 club, never playing in less than 32 games in his first four seasons combined and helping the Haute-Garonne side achieve promotion to Ligue 1 in his second year.

Albert Guérisse

He smuggled a German uniform to Garrow in his cell in Mauzac concentration camp which helped Garrow's escape on 6 December 1941.

Antoine de Castelnau

Antoine de Castelnau was the son of Louis de Castelnau, baron of Castelnau, Miremont, Buanes and Bats,(1460–before 1529), and Susanne de Gramont (died after 1525).

Armagnac-Ténarèze

This area lies between Bas-Armagnac and Haut-Armagnac, covering the northwestern part of the department of Gers and the southern part of Lot-et-Garonne.

Battle of Auberoche

Derby used this opportunity to seize more towns in the region including Montségur and conduct successful sieges against La Réole and Aiguillon, placing the region firmly in English hands.

Canton of Montauban-3

The Canton of Montauban-3 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-6

The Canton of Montauban-6 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Caraman

Saint-Félix-de-Caraman, the old name of Saint-Félix-Lauragais, a commune in the Haute-Garonne department, France

Caubiac

It is now part of the British Museum's collection and was actually found in the nearby village of Thil.

Caubiac Treasure

According to handwritten records kept at the Academy of Toulouse, the treasure was actually found at the nearby village of Thil.

Caylus

The goal of Caylus is to amass the most prestige points by constructing buildings and by working on the castle of Caylus in medieval France.

Château de Bonaguil

Château de Bonaguil is a castle in the French commune of Saint-Front-sur-Lémance, but actually owned by the neighbouring commune of Fumel in the Lot-et-Garonne département.

Château de Villefranche

The Château de Villefranche is a castle and stately home in the commune of Villeneuve-lès-Bouloc in the Haute-Garonne département of France.

David Whitworth

Outside of the championship, Whitworth won the 350 cc race at the French Grand Prix in Saint-Gaudens.

December 1981 windstorm

In France, the storm caused widespread flooding in the south west, causing considerable damage in the river basins of the Garonne and Adour and flooding the city of Bordeaux.

Dryopithecus fontani

Dryopithecus fontani is an extinct ape that was first discovered in Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne, France, in the 19th century, and was dated to the middle Miocene.

Duras, Lot-et-Garonne

David Hume of Godscroft (1558-1629), Scottish historian and philosopher, was the pastor in Duras 1604-1614.

The writer Marguerite Donnadieu (1914–1996) took the pseudonym "Marguerite Duras" in 1943, after this village, where her father's house was located.

French Senate election, 2008

They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

German submarine U-547

U-547 was damaged by a mine on 13 August 1944 in the Gironde (where the mouths of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers merge), near Pauillac in western France; she then retraced part of the route of her first patrol, arriving at Marviken in Kristiansand on 29 September and moving on to Flensburg on 4 October.

Golfech Nuclear Power Plant

The Golfech Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne), on the border of Garonne between Agen (30 km downstream) and Toulouse (90 km upstream) on the Garonne River, from where it gets cooling water, and approximately 40 km west of Montauban.

Great Hucklow

The village is twinned with Parisot, Tarn-et-Garonne which is a rural village of similar size in the south west of France.

Haut-Armagnac

It includes the eastern part of the department of Gers and a small part of Lot-et-Garonne.

Ian Garrow

Garrow was arrested by Vichy French police in October 1941 and later interned at Mauzac (Dordogne).

Jean-Baptiste Mailhe

Re-elected in September 1792 as Member of Parliament for the Haute-Garonne in the National Convention, he sat with La Plaine, remaining close to the Girondists.

Jean-Ernest Ducos de La Hitte

Jean Ernest Ducos de La Hitte, Viscount, was born on 5 September 1789 in Bessières (Haute-Garonne), and died on 22 September 1878 in Gragnague (Haute-Garonne).

Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan

At the same time, lands were purchased at Pompignan (some 20 km to the southwest of Montauban) to provide a convenient rural retreat.

La Reunion

La Réunion, Lot-et-Garonne, a town in the Lot-et-Garonne department of France

La Va Bon Train

The La Va Bon Train ("goes like blazes" in French) was a French automobile manufactured by Larroumet and Lagarde of Agen, Lot-et-Garonne between 1904 and 1914.

Leuciscus burdigalensis

It is recorded both from Atlantic and Mediterranean drainages - from Loire to Garonne, and from Tech to Aude, respectively.

Lourde

Lourde, Haute-Garonne, a commune in the Haute Garonne department, France

Minuscule 445

It once belonged to the Jesuit's Colleague, in Augen, on the Garonne.

Philippe de Vitry

In addition to all this, he was a diplomat and a soldier, known to have served at the siege of Aiguillon in 1346.

Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford

Further battles included the battle of Auberoche, the siege of Aiguillon, from where he escaped prior to its lifting, a raid on Barfleur and the English victory at the Battle of Crecy, on 26 August 1346.

Rigole de la montagne

The original plan was to take water from the Sor River at Revel via the rigole de la plaine and transport it to the Bassin de Naurouze to provide a source of water for the canal.

Saint-Alban Omnisport

They are based in the town of Saint-Alban, Haute-Garonne and their home stadium is the Stade Marius Coudon.

Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val

Legend recounts that angels then descended from Heaven to collect the pieces and place them in a boat which, miraculously, floated downstream into the Garonne and on to where the Tarn flows into it; then up the Tarn to its confluence with the Aveyron and up through the Vallis Nobilis of the Aveyron Gorges to the confluence of the little Bonnette river at a point where the ancient lands and bishroprics of Rouergue, the Albigeois, and Quercy meet.

Sixte

Saint-Sixte, Lot-et-Garonne, commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in southwestern France

Spain men's national ice hockey team

Spain won their first international game against Belgium in the Challenge de Haute–Garonne tournament held in Bagnères-de-Luchon, France.

Varen

Varen, Tarn-et-Garonne, a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, France

Vincent Baron

He was born at Martres, in the département of the Haute-Garonne, France, 17 May 1604, and died in Paris on 21 January 1674.


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