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3 unusual facts about Sarre


Radio France

1955: The commercial station Europe No. 1 begins broadcasting from across the border in the Sarre region of Germany, freed from French occupation in that year.

Rohrbach-lès-Bitche

Rohrbach-lès-Bitche is constructed along the road from Sarreguemines to Bitche and also along the road that branches off towards Sarre-Union and Alsace bossue.

Sarre

Sarre-Union, a commune of the Bas-Rhin département in Alsace, France


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Foday Musa Suso

Foday Musa Suso (born in Sarre Hamadi Village, Wuli District, in the Upper River Division of eastern Gambia) is a musician and composer from the Gambia.

Fortified Sector of the Sarre

The Sarre sector was under the overall command of the French 4th Army, headquartered at Vic-sur-Seille, under the command of General Réquin, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat.

Hirschland

Hirschland is some twelve kilometres (seven miles) to the northwest of Phalsbourg, beside the autoroute towards Sarre-Union and, further to the west, Metz.

Jean Paul Lehners

Robert Krieps Award 1992 for the workgroup on “Histoire de l'industrialisation en Sarre-Lor-Lux” (informal group composed researchers, professors and students meeting several times a year and exchanging information and elaborating common projects of studies and research).

Mathurin Méheut

Between world wars, he illustrated books for authors including Colette, Maurice Genevoix, and Pierre Loti, and created ceramics at Henriot in Quimper, at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, and at Villeroy & Boch in Sarre.

Operation Tiger

Operation Tiger (1940), the successful German assault on the French Fortified Sector of the Sarre during the Battle of France

Palmarolle

Following the pattern of other places in the Abitibi, the settlement was named after a historic military figure, François-Charles Bertrand de Palmarole or Palmarolle (1714 ‑ 1760), lieutenant of the La Sarre Regiment and Knight of the Order of Saint Louis.

Rémigny, Quebec

In 1920, the geographic township of Rémigny was formed, named after Captain Rémigny of the La Sarre Regiment, who was made a Knight of the Order of Saint Louis in 1759 and captain of Grenadier Company in 1760.


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