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unusual facts about Sauveterre, Gard



Antoine Deparcieux

Antoine Deparcieux was born in 1703 in Cessoux parish, Peyremale, a small village close to Alès in the Gard department the south of France.

Aramon

Aramon, Gard, a commune in the Gard department in southern France

Battle of Stone Corral

Gard's posse composed of himself and three others: Hiram Lee Rapelje, a deputized bounty hunter, Fred Jackson, a policeman from Nevada, and Thomas Burns.

Château de Saint-Chaptes

The Château de Saint-Chaptes is a modernised castle in the commune of Saint-Chaptes in the Gard département of France.

David Carcassonne

He was born at Remoulins, a small town in the Gard department, the son of a purveyor to the army of Napoleon I. Having joined the Grande Armée as military surgeon at twenty-three years of age, he followed the emperor to Russia in 1812, and was made a prisoner there.

Fritz Eckert

Eckert designed Professor Curman's villa on Stockholm's Floragatan (1880), the Royal Stables of Stockholm (1895), Antuna Gård mansion in Upplands Väsby, the YWCA building in Stockholm (designed in 1905) and the new church in Krokek in Östergötland County (1895-1896), as well as contributing to numerous church restorations.

Gabriel Auphan

A native of Alès, Gard, Auphan was a student at the École navale; promoted to capitaine de vaisseau in 1936, he had a career in the cabinets of the ministries Georges Leygues and François Pietri.

Gartz

The name derives from northern Lechitic (Proto-Polish) dialects (namely from West Pomeranian) from the word "gard" < *gord, meaning "fortified settlement".

Gaston Palewski

In the English-speaking world Palewski is known chiefly through his appearance as Fabrice, duc de Sauveterre, in two of Nancy Mitford's novels, The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949).

Igelbäcken

Thereafter, the stream flows some 4 km in the valley separating the suburbs Akalla-Hjulsta and Tensta-Rinkeby and where are several rural structures including an ecological farm (Hästa Gård), eight allotment-gardens, and some minor overgrown wetlands.

Jean Cavalier

Jean Cavalier, real name Joan Cavalièr in Occitan, (November 28, 1681 – May 17, 1740), the famous chief of the Camisards, was born at Mas Roux, a small hamlet in the commune of Ribaute near Anduze (Gard, southern France).

John Gard

Gard was the Republican nominee, defeating State Rep. Terri McCormick of Appleton in the September 12, 2006 Republican primary.

Léon Gard

The 1940s, when Gard met Sacha Guitry, are marked by several portraits of the famous: Sacha Guitry, Lucien Daudet, Count Doria, Baroness Hottinguer, Georges Renand, and many others.

Until 1926, when Fauvism, Cubism and Abstract styles came to the fore, Gard stayed away from theory and, it seems, followed Corot's lessons when he installed his easel on street corners in Morigny or Étampes and practiced with a palette of soft and refined tones.

Louis Hippolyte Bouteille

Louis Hippolyte Bouteille (2 January 1804, Saint-Gilles-du-Gard - 19 August 1881, Grenoble ) was a French ornithologist

Louis Pierre de Cubières

Simon Louis Pierre, marquis de Cubières, brother of Michel de Cubières (1747, Roquemaure, Gard – 1821) was a French writer.

Megalithic entrance

This special form, which effectively replaces the lintel, is also found in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon, e.g. at the dolmen of Banelle, which lies near Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort in the southern French department of Gard.

Picholine

The Picholine olive is originally from the region of Gard in southern France.

Rayner Blitz

But the county was looking for a wicketkeeper who could make reliable runs as the long-term successor to Gard, and signed Neil Burns from Essex for the 1987 season.

René Fontayne

Born in Vergèze, in the Gard, on 3 January 1891, he graduated from the École Municipale des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes in 1910, and in 1912 went to Paris on a national scholarship to further his talent as a painter and decorative artist, a talent that would come to be especially active and appreciated in the field of decorative arts.

Roger Martin du Gard

Roger Martin du Gard died in 1958 and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice, France.

Saint-Nicolas-de-Campagnac Bridge

The Saint-Nicolas-de-Campagnac Bridge (French Pont Saint-Nicolas-de-Campagnac) is an arch bridge crossing the Gardon, and located near Sainte-Anastasie, in the Gard département of southern France.

Sauveterre, Gard

Sauveterre is part of the canton of Roquemaure that also includes the communes of Laudun, Lirac, Montfaucon, Saint-Geniès-de-Comolas, Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres, Saint-Victor-la-Coste and Tavel.

Skarpnäck

Skarpnäcksfältet, a subdistrict in Skarpnäcks Gård district, Skarpnäck borough

That Should Not Be: Our Children Will Accuse Us

Our Children Will Accuse Us tells the story of an initiative in Barjac, a commune located in the Gard department in southern France, that decided to introduce organic produce into the town's school cafeteria.

Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant

The Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant is a collection of sites run by Areva and EDF located in 4 different communes Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Pierrelatte in Drôme, Bollène and Lapalud in Vaucluse, and four departments (Drome (26), Vaucluse (84), Gard (30) and Ardeche (07)) on right bank of the Channel of Donzère-Mondragon (diversion canal of the Rhône River) between Valence (70 km upstream) and Avignon (65 km downstream).

Vin de pays

For example, Vin de Pays du Gard is one of the Vins de Pays produced within Vins de Pays d'Oc using grapes from the Gard department and the Vin de Pays de Charente-maritime is produced in the Cognac area.


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