The parish church of Saint Maurice is unusual in that the church tower is on the south side.
Manresa (Spain), Piedmont (Italy), Montalbano Jonico (Italy), Schiavi di Abruzzo (Italy), Stadtsulza (Germany) and Coburg (Germany) have chosen St. Maurice as their patron saint as well.
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Roman Agaunum, the modern Saint-Maurice in the canton Valais in southwesternmost Switzerland, was a minor post confined between the Rhône and the mountains along the well-travelled road that led from Roman Genava, modern Geneva, over the Alps by the Great St. Bernard Pass to Italy.
Alain Marguerettaz (born August 31, 1962 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice) is a French Paralympian who started in alpine skiing.
He was born in Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan (Seine-Maritime) in an old Catholic Norman noble family.
The French ski mountaineer Bertrand Blanc was born in Bourg-Saint-Maurice on October 29, 1973.
Camille Silvy (born Nogent-le-Rotrou, France, 1834; died Saint-Maurice, France, 1910) was a French photographer, primarily active in London.
In fact, before 2011, the BQ won at least seven of its nine seats in each of the preceding four elections, losing Saint-Maurice in 1997 and 2000 and Portneuf in 2000, which both went Liberal, winning all ridings in 2004, and in 2006 and 2008 losing only Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière to the Conservatives and Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier to independent candidate André Arthur.
Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, a neighboring commune that was called Charenton-Saint-Maurice until 1842
The Château de Saint-Maurice is built on the remains of an earlier 13th castle in the commune of Saint-Maurice-Navacelles in the Hérault département of France.
Surrounded by the municipalities of Cologny, Vandœuvres, Choulex, Meinier, and Corsier, Collonge-Bellerive consists primarily of the villages of Collonge, Vésenaz and Saint-Maurice together with the hamlets of Cherre, Bellerive, La Repentance and La Capite.
Julius Faucher (June 13, 1820 in Berlin1 - June 12, 1878 in Rome) was a German journalist and a significant advocate of *Narcisse Henri Édouard Faucher (April 18, 1844 – April 1, 1897) was a Canadian author, journalist, army officer, and politician who published books under the name Faucher de Saint-Maurice.
Promoted to chef de bataillon Debax was killed on 25 August 1914, fighting the German forces at Saint-Maurice-sous-les-Côtes during the first month of the First World War.
The Chablais and Chillon ensembles were not considered part of Fortress Saint-Maurice proper, but were important advance works to delay and weaken an attacker before they reached the Saint-Maurice stopping line, or fort d'arrêt.
The extent of the area designated as Fortress Saint-Maurice is not clearly defined, but according to the Association Fort de Litroz, the Saint-Maurice sector comprises the Rhône narrows from just north of Saint-Maurice to Martigny, excluding Chillon and Champillon, as well as the fortifications of the lateral valleys.
Devienne died in Charenton-Saint-Maurice near Paris on September 5, 1803.
Jean-François Fournier (born 1966), writer, poet and biographer from Saint-Maurice
The French Church was modelled after the destroyed Huguenot temple in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France.
The cathedral was modelled after the destroyed Huguenot church in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France.
Jean-Jacques Desvaux de Saint-Maurice, baron, (26 June 1775, in Paris – 18 June 1815, near Waterloo), was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars.
John Dovi (born January 2, 1973 in Saint-Maurice-le-Girard, France) is a former French amateur boxer who medaled repeatedly in international competitions.
In 888, upon the death of the Emperor Charles the Fat, son of Louis the German, Count Rudolph of Auxerre, Count of Burgundy, founded the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy at Saint-Maurice which included the County of Burgundy, in northwestern Upper Burgundy.
"Sainte Réparade" is probably a corruption of "Sainte Réparate", patron saint of the diocese of Nice, some of whose relics were removed in the 11th century to the parish church of "Saint Maurice of Puy" which later took the name "Chapelle Sainte Réparade".
The village did not have its own church until 1664, but was dependent on the parish of Saint-Maurice.
His sister Marie married Alexis Rivard, who was also a member of the legislative assembly, and his brother Valère represented Saint-Maurice in the legislative assembly.
In the elections of November 27, 2000, Saint-Maurice finished in 4th place with 2156 votes for the Marijuana Party in the riding of Laurier-Sainte-Marie (Quebec), behind leader Gilles Duceppe, the Bloc Québécois, Jean-Philippe Côté, PLC and Dylan Perceval-Maxwell's Green Party.
Bérard ran as a Liberal candidate to the National Assembly of Quebec in the district of Saint-Maurice in 1973 and defeated Union Nationale incumbent Philippe Demers.
Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels was one of three daughters of the Dutch bookseller Daniel Horthemels (c. 1650-1691) and his wife Marie Cellier (b. 1656), from Saint-Maurice, to the southeast of Paris.
A trial system was installed between Joinville-le-Pont and Saint-Maurice; it consisted of an endless cable which was kept in motion by powerful steam-engines and to which boats were attached and thus kept at a speed of four kilometers an hour.
Mirepoix Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Maurice de Mirepoix) is a former Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Mirepoix, Ariège.
Nanterre Cathedral (Cathédrale Sainte-Geneviève-et-Saint-Maurice de Nanterre) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in the town of Nanterre, France.
Paul Arpin (born February 20, 1960 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice) is a retired long-distance runner from France, who represented his native country in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in seventh place.
He successfully ran as the Union Nationale candidate in the provincial district of Saint-Maurice in the 1966 general election to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, defeating the liberal incumbent Jean-Guy Trépanier.
The Saint-Alban nuclear power plant is located on the Rhone river, in the Isere department 50 km downstream from Lyon in the communes of Saint-Alban-du-Rhône and Saint-Maurice-l'Exil.
These communities included; in 1611 the Capuchins, in 1865 the Sisters of Saint-Maurice, in 1906 the Augustinian Sisters and in 1996 the Brotherhood of the Eucharist in Epinassey.
Vincent Bachet (born 29 April 1978 in Saint-Maurice-le-Girard, France) is a professional French ice hockey defenceman who participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the France National men's ice hockey team.