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38 unusual facts about Saone


Alaincourt

Alaincourt, Haute-Saône, a commune of the Haute-Saône département in France

Amage

:For the town in France, see Amage, Haute-Saône.

Basilica of Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel

In the town of Gray a statue of the Virgin made out of Montague wood became the object of a regional devotion.

Buthiers

Buthiers, Haute-Saône, a commune of the Haute-Saône département in France

Château d'Étobon

The Château d'Étobon is a ruined castle in the commune of Étobon in the Haute-Saône département of France, 6 km from the town of Héricourt.

Château de Rully

Revolutionary era: a certificate of the commune of Rully, in connection with the marquise of Montessus, held for some time in the prison of Chalon, attests that les malheureux ont toujours trouvé en elle une mère, l'opprimé un soutien (the unhappy always found in it a mother, the oppressed support)

Chemins de fer et transport automobile

The CFTA Cargo subsidiary still runs the freight railways around Gray and Châtillon-sur-Seine, famous for being the last place where main line steam locomotives operated in France.

Christian Bergelin

He was deputy of Haute-Saône at the National Assembly of France and had been president of this department for more than 10 ans.

Cité Scolaire Internationale de Lyon

The principal, François Chabot, was replaced by Bruno Bigi, then principal of Rosa Parks High School in Neuville-sur-Saône.

Dornstetten

Dornstetten enjoys a partnership with Scey-sur-Saône-et-Saint-Albin in department of Haute Saône in France, where students from Dornstetten Gymnasium participate yearly in a student exachange program.

Héricourt

Héricourt, Haute-Saône, a commune of the Haute-Saône département in France

Jacques Lameloise

Jacques Lameloise was chef de cuisine at the French restaurant Maison Lameloise (usually known as Lameloise) in Chagny.

Joanna of Burgundy

When her brother Othenin, Count of Montbéliard died childless in 1339, she and her second husband Rudolf Hesso inherited the Lordships of Belfort and Héricourt.

Jonas of Bobbio

In 659, when he was sent by the Queen-Regent Balthild on a mission to Chalon-sur-Saône, he was referred to as "abbot", though of which monastery it cannot now be determined.

Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre

He was son of Pierre Chabanceau de La Barre (1592–1656) organist of the chapelle royale at Notre-Dame, sieur of La Barre, and younger brother of Charles-Henry Chabanceau de La Barre (1625-?), player of the spinet to the queen, and Anne Chabanceau de La Barre (1628–1688), a noted soprano.

Joseph Schipfer

In the letter from February 20, 1840, titled "General Call to the Compassionate Humanity", Schipfer describes the suffering of the French inhabitants near the rivers Rhône and Saône and also provides a brochure on his "General Communication or World language (in German: Allgemeine Communications- oder Weltsprache)".

Juif

Juif, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France

La Barre, Haute-Saône

The fictional character Jean-Luc Picard of the American science-fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation was born and raised in La Barre.

Louis-Françisque Lélut

Born at Gy, a small village in the Haute-Saône department, he was member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and researched mental illnesses and phrenology.

Malans

Malans, Haute-Saône, a commune in the Haute-Saône department in France

Monthureux-sur-Saône

After the Romans came the Franks and the Burgundians and presumably these tribes populated the region.

Photographic Center of Skopelos

These were imported from the Musee Nicephore Niepce in Chalon-sur-Saône, France and a French foundation, the FRAC, has also made contributions to the museum.

Pontus de Tyard

Pontus resigned his bishopric in 1594, and retired to the Château de Bragny, where he died.

Provenchère

Provenchère, Haute-Saône, another commune in the French region of Franche-Comté

Pyroscaphe

The first demonstration took place on 15 July 1783 on the river Saône in France.

René Piller

René Piller (born April 23, 1965 in Héricourt, Haute-Saône) is a retired male race walker from France, who competed in three Summer Olympics during his career.

Sancé

Sancé, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in France

Saône-et-Loire

The Loire makes its way in the opposite direction, draining into the Atlantic Ocean.

Synod of Mantaille

The Synod of Mantaille was held in Mantaille, in the southwestern French region of Provence, on 15 October 879 by the bishops and nobles of the region around the rivers Rhône and Saône.

Taizé Community

He eventually settled in Taizé, which was a small desolate village just north of Cluny, the site of a historically influential Christian monastic foundation.

The Cock and the Jewel

In Le coq et la perle, now in the Musée Denon, Chalon-sur-Saône, the bird struts by with a pearl pendant hanging from its beak, the image of self-regard.

The Heretic's Apprentice

They stayed in monasteries as many nights as they could, including the priory of Saint Marcel near Chalon-sur-Saône, a daughter house of the Cluny Abbey when he first became ill.

Traves, Haute-Saône

Former SS Standartenfuhrer Jochen Peiper bought property and lived near the village from April 27, 1972 until his murder July 14, 1976.

Upper Burgundy

The adjective "upper" refers to its location further up the Rhone Valley as distinct from Lower Burgundy (Cisjurania) and also from the Duchy of Burgundy west of the Saône river.

Vadans

Vadans, Haute-Saône, another commune in the French region of Franche-Comté

William Hyacinth, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

In 1713, France withdrew William Hyacinth's French title of Count of Chalon.

Witteric

Although the envoys gave their word that she would not be disowned by Theodoric, and she was received by Theodoric in Chalon-sur-Saône (606), the regent (the queen-grandmother) Brunhilda and Theodoric's sister Teudila (or Teudilana) alienated him from her.

Xavier de Montépin

Xavier Henri Aymon Perrin, Count of Montépin, born in Apremont, Haute-Saône 10 March 1823 and died in Paris on 30 April 1902, was a popular French novelist.


Antoine Griezmann

Griezmann was born in the commune of Mâcon in the département of Saône-et-Loire and began his career playing for hometown club UF Mâcon.

Argos Energies

For the storage of oil products Argos operates terminals and depots in the Netherlands (Rotterdam Pernis), Belgium (Ghent), Germany (Emmerich am Rhein) and France (Chalon-sur-Saône and Beaune-la-Rolande).

Borvo

Many of the sites where offerings to Borvo have been found are in Gaul: inscriptions to him have been found in Drôme at Aix-en-Diois, Bouches-du-Rhône at Aix-en-Provence, Gers at Auch, Allier at Bourbon-l'Archambault, Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Saône-et-Loire at Bourbon-Lancy, in Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Haute-Marne at Bourbonne-les-Bains and in Nièvre at Entrains-sur-Nohain.

CroisiEurope

In France, CroisiEurope sail on the Seine, the Rhône, the Saône, the Gironde, the Meuse, and the Rhine; in Italy, on the Po; in Spain, on the Guadalquivir; in Portugal, on the Guadiana and the Douro; in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, on the Rhine; in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Romania, on the Danube; and in Germany, on the Havel and the Oder.

Édouard Sain

Édouard Alexandre Sain was born Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, on 13 May 1830, son of Paul-François-Toussaint Sain, a tax-collector, and Palmire-Ernestine Bouchet.

Édouard Vuillard

Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances.

Eugène Schneider

Eugène Schneider died in 1875 and was buried in the San Charles church in Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire).

Fabien Chéreau

Fabien Chéreau (born 17 September 1980 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France) is a French Research Engineer and computer programmer best known for authoring the planetarium software Stellarium, a free, open source astronomy software package which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.

François Bourdon

then north via the Saône towards a network of canals that would connect to the Loire and the Rhine.

Frédéric Demontfaucon

Frédéric Demontfaucon (born 24 December 1973 in Le Creusot, Saône-et-Loire) is a judoka from France.

Gare de Lyon-Jean Macé

The station allows passengers to regional trains from Bourgoin-Jallieu, La Tour-du-Pin, Saint-André-le-Gaz, Vienne, Valencia, Mâcon and Villefranche-sur-Saône, according to their final destination, to use the new station as additional entry point in the center of Lyon.

Jacques Bouveresse

He spent two years of preparation for the baccalauréat in philosophy and scholastic theology at Faverney in Haute-Saône.

Jacques-Melchior Villefranche

Jacques-Melchior Villefranche (b. at Couzon-sur-Saône, 17 December 1829; d. at Bourg, 10 May 1904) was a French editor, writer, and publicist working for Roman Catholic causes.

Mélanie Calvat

Calvat moved to Cannes in the south of France, from where she travelled to Chalon-sur-Saône, seeking to found a community with the sponsorship of the Canon de Brandt of Amiens.

Musée Georges-Garret

Musée Georges-Garret is a muséum located in the city of Vesoul, in the Haute-Saône departement of eastern France.

Nadezhda Lappo-Danilevsky

Nadezhda Lappo-Danilevsky (born in 1874, Kiev, Russian Empire - died on March 17, 1951, Charolais, Department of Saône-et-Loire, France) was a Russian writer and a member of Russian apostolate.

Rupert Cambridge, Viscount Trematon

One of his friends died from injuries and Trematon was taken to a nearby hospital at Belleville-sur-Saône with a slight fracture of the skull.

Saint-Amour

Saint-Amour-Bellevue, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire département in France

Sainte Marie Coal Mine

The Sainte Marie Coal Mine is one of the major Ronchamp coal mines, located in Ronchamp, Haute-Saône, in eastern France.

Stéphane Peterhansel

Stéphane Peterhansel (born 6 August 1965 in Échenoz-la-Méline, Haute-Saône) is a rally racing driver from France.

Tour du Crédit Lyonnais

In his song "Lyon Presqu'île" on the album The Superb, Benjamin Biolay (born in Villefranche-sur-Saone) includes "round in pen" in his view of the main monuments of the city.

Vaudey

Villers-Vaudey, commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Franche-Comté in eastern France

Vellexon-Queutrey-et-Vaudey, commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Franche-Comté in eastern France