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unusual facts about Saint Raphael


Cavalaire-sur-Mer

The village is located on the route of the old railway Saint Raphael - Toulon (sometimes called Train Pignes), now defunct.



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Anastasiya Polyanskaya

In 2011 Polyanskaya represented Saint Raphaël Triathlon in the prestigious French Club Championship Series, like her husband Dmitry Polyanski, her brother-in-law Igor Polyanski and Igor's fiancée Lyubov Ivanovskaya.

Bjarni Fritzson

Bjarni Fritzson (born 12 September 1980) is an Icelandic handball player who in 2008 played for Saint-Raphaël, Var handball in France.

Calixte Duguay

Calixte Duguay, CM (born July 15, 1939) is a multi-disciplinarian Canadian Artist born in Sainte-Marie, Acadia, on Lamèque Island.

Dmitry Polyanski

In 2011, Dmitry, his wife Anastasiya, his brother Igor and Igor's girl friend Lyubov Ivanovskaya will represent Saint-Raphaël Triathlon in the Club Championship Series Lyonnaise des Eaux.

Dmitry Polyanski is the elder brother of Igor Polyanski, also a professional triathlete and among the elite guest stars representing Saint-Raphaël Tri.

Jean-Louis Hamon

It was painted at Saint-Raphaël, where Hamon had finally settled in a little house on the shores of the Mediterranean, close by Alphonse Karr's famous garden.

Latécoère 550

After some modifications to engine cowlings, wings and tail it went to CEPANA at Saint-Raphaël, Var for trials in October 1933 and in November was converted, in less than four hours, into a landplane.

Lyubov Polyanskaya

In 2011 Ivanovskaya represented Saint Raphaël Triathlon, like Igor Polyanski and Igor's brother Dmitry Polyanski and his wife Anastasiya Polyanskaya.

Nieuport-Delage NiD 43

The NiD 43 began flight testing in 1924 and went the following year to Saint-Raphaël, Var for competitive evaluation by the Aéronavale.

Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro

Carlo was born at Saint-Raphaël, Var, France, the only son of Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, and his wife, Chantal de Chevron-Villette.

Rifamycin

Streptomyces mediterranei was first isolated in 1957 from a soil sample collected near the beach-side town of St Raphael in southern France.

Saint-Raphaël, Haiti

The peels are dried in the sun and then shipped to France where they are macerated, distilled and blended with other ingredients to produce the world-famous liqueurs Grand Marnier and Cointreau manufactured by the French companies, Société des Produits Marnier-Lapostolle and Rémy Cointreau.

Shahan Shahnour

Shahnour Kerestejian better known as Shahan Shahnour (in Armenian Շահան Շահնուր, French transliteration Chahan Chahnour) also known in his French language writings as Armen Lubin (in Armenian Արմեն Լյուբեն Western Armenian Արմէն Լիւպեն) (August 3, 1903, Istanbul - August 20, 1974, Saint-Raphaël) was a French-Armenian writer and poet.

Shahnour died on August 20, 1974, in the hospital of Saint-Raphaël, in Southern France.