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6 unusual facts about Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine


Arnoux system

Arnoux was the chief engineer of the Ligne de Sceaux which was originally built with very tight bends in the area around Sceaux.

Bernard de Bury

His works continued to be staged during the festivities given in Versailles, Sceaux, and Fontainebleau for more than thirty-five years.

Guy Hocquenghem

Guy Hocquenghem was born in the suburbs of Paris and was educated at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Jean-Jacques Champin

Jean-Jacques Champin, a French painter in water-colours and lithographer, was born at Sceaux in 1796.

Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine

Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 31 March 1670 - Sceaux, 14 May 1736) was a legitimised son of the French king Louis XIV and his official mistress, Madame de Montespan.

Michel Winock

He started his career in secondary school teaching at the lycée in Montpellier, then at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles and the lycée Lakanal in Sceaux.


118th Airlift Squadron

After a month, the squadron was again ordered to move to the II Corps Aeronautical School at Châtillon-sur-Seine, France, arriving on 8 June.

Alfred Perles

In 1933, American writer Henry Miller - not yet known - took an apartment with Perlès in Clichy.

Alia Ouabdelsselam

Alia Ouabdelsselam (born April 20, 1978 in Antony) is a French retired ice dancer.

Antenor Patiño

Doña María Isabel Patiño y Borbón (Paris, 3 June 1936 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, 15 May 1954) who had a short and tragic marriage with Sir James Goldsmith, by whom she had an only daughter.

Arville

Arville, Seine-et-Marne, a commune of the Seine-et-Marne département, in France

Bodensee-Literaturpreis

1987 Golo Mann for„seine dem Bodensee geltenden essayistischen und autobiographischen Schriften“

Boulevard de la Zone

One side marks the border of Ivry-sur-Seine from which it was annexed to Paris on April 19, 1929.

Canal de Tancarville

The Canal de Tancarville is a 25 km waterway in France connecting the English Channel at Le Havre to the Seine at Tancarville.

Chappe et Gessalin

Chappe et Gessalin (CG) was a French automobile maker founded in 1946 which commenced manufacturing complete cars in Brie-Comte-Robert, Seine-et Marne in 1957.

Cimetière parisien de Bagneux

Located to the southwest of the city of Paris, France, the main entrance to the Cimetière de Bagneux is located at 43-45, Avenue Marx-Dormoy, in Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine.

Claude Parent

Claude Parent, born on 23 February 1923 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, is a French architect known for his buildings featuring sloped floors, an aesthetic initially inspired by Parent's discovery, with philosopher Paul Virilio, of World War II bunkers constructed along the Atlantic Wall that had accidentally slipped down sand dunes because of severe winter weather.

Club de Clichy

The political club that came to be called the Clichyens met in rooms in the rue de Clichy, which led west towards the fashionable Parisian suburb of Clichy.

Compagnie française de matériel de chemin de fer

The Compagnie française de matériel de chemin de fer (CFMCF) was a French manufacturer of rail equipment, headquartered in Ivry-sur-Seine, with a factory in Maubeuge.

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.

Durdent

Le Mesnil-Durdent, a commune in the Seine-Maritime département, France

Épône

Hérault de Séchelles (1759–1794), former lord of Épône, representative of Seine-et-Oise in the National Convention, beheaded in 1794, and author of Théorie de l'ambition, codicille politique pratique d’un jeune habitant d’Épône

Ernest Goüin

An economic depression in 1847 affected orders for locomotives and forced Goüin to diversify; as a result his company began manufacturing structural metal constructions, and in 1852 his company built became the first metal bridge builder in France, with a bridge in Asnières.

Exide

In 1996 Exide acquired the French/Italian battery corporation CEAC, Clichy.

Gare d'Épinay-sur-Seine

The Gare d'Épinay-sur-Seine (Épinay-sur-Seine station) is one of the two railway stations in the commune of Épinay-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis department, France (the other being the Gare d'Épinay-Villetaneuse).

Georges Poujouly

Georges Poujouly (20 January 1940, Garches, Hauts-de-Seine – 28 October 2000, Villejuif, Val-de-Marne) was a French actor who gained international acclaim as a child for his performance in the award-winning film Forbidden Games.

Geraldine of Albania

King Zog I died in Hauts-de-Seine, France, in 1961 and their son, Crown Prince Leka, was proclaimed King Leka I by the royalist government in exile.

Giovanni Antonio Galignani

The brothers established and endowed hospitals at Corbeil and at Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Guillaume de Felice

He became a pastor at the Reformed Church of Bolbec, in Normandy Seine-Maritime, then a professor of theology in Montauban, occupying the chair 'de morale et d'éloquence sacrée' (of morality and holy speech).

Helier

Churches dedicated to Helier can be found in Rennes, St. Hellier, Beuzeville (Eure), Amécourt (Eure), Barentin (Seine-Maritime), Monhoudou (Sarthe).

Jacques de Loustal

Jacques de Loustal (born April 10, 1956, in Neuilly-Sur-Seine) is a French comics artist who uses a painterly style reminiscent of David Hockney.

Jean de Pourtales

Jean de Pourtales (born August 19, 1965) is a French racing driver from Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Jean-Christophe Cambadélis

Jean-Christophe Cambadélis (born August 14, 1951) is a member of the National Assembly of France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Jean-Louis Jaley

Jean-Louis Nicolas Jaley (born in Paris in 1802, died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1866) was a French sculptor.

Jean-Paul Delahaye

Jean-Paul Delahaye (born June 29, 1952 in Saint-Mandé Seine) is a French computer scientist and mathematician.

Jean-Philippe Salabreuil

Jean-Philippe Salabreuil (25 May 1940, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 27 February 1970, Paris), real name Jean-Pierre Steinbach, was a French poet.

Jedem das Seine

Several modern advertising campaigns in the German language, including ads for Nokia, REWE grocery stores, Burger King, and Merkur Bank have been marred by controversy after using the phrase Jedem das Seine or Jedem den Seinen.

Jimmy Hare

During World War I he documented American, British, Canadian, and Italian soldiers, St Dunstan's home for blind soldiers, the Greek harbor town of Thessaloniki, the military hospital at the Hall of Mechanics at the Grand Palais in Paris, people fleeing Antwerp, funerals of the dead from the RMS Lusitania, and the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine, among other subjects.

José Maria de Eça de Queirós

He lived at Neuilly-sur-Seine and continued to write journalism (Ecos de Paris, "Echos from Paris") as well as literary criticism.

Just de Noailles

# Charles Antonin (March 13, 1810 – August 24, 1852 – Chateau du Val (Seine-et-Marne)), styled comte de Noailles, commander of the Légion d'honneur, married in Paris, 25 1849, Anne Marie Elena Cosvelt;

Mantes-la-Jolie

Originally officially called Mantes-sur-Seine (meaning "Mantes upon Seine"), Mantes merged with the commune of Gassicourt in 1930 and the commune born of the merger was called Mantes-Gassicourt.

Marymount School, Paris

Marymount Paris opened on September 30, 1923 in town of Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside of Paris.

Michel Ephrussi

On April 4, 1900 Ephrussi and the Count fought a duel with swords on Île de la Jatte in the Seine River at Neuilly in which Ephrussi was wounded in the chest but soon recovered.

Nosfell

Nosfell (born 1 December 1977, in Saint-Ouen in Seine-Saint-Denis) is a rock musician who performs in a group with Pierre Lebourgeois (cellist) and Orkhan Murat (drummer).

One Ton Cup

It had to be raced on the Seine River at Meulan, home of the CVP or in Cowes if owned by a foreigner1.

Otto, Count of Vermandois

Otto (or Eudes) of Vermandois (29 August 979 – 25 May 1045), Count of Vermandois, was the son of Herbert III, Count of Vermandois and Ermengarde of Bar-sur-Seine.

Penly Nuclear Power Plant

It lies on the border of two French municipalities: Penly and Saint-Martin-en-Campagne in the département of Seine-Maritime, Normandy, on the English Channel coast.

Pierre Hohenberg

Pierre C. Hohenberg (born 3 October 1934 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French-American theoretical physicist, who works primarily on statistical mechanics.

Pierre-Gustave Staal

Pierre-Gustave-Eugène Staal (Vertus, 2 September 1817–Ivry, 19 October 1882), was a French artist and draughtsman.

Pont de Brotonne

Its construction was financed by the General council of Seine-Maritime for the purpose of opening up the Pays de Caux and assuring a connection between the commune of Yvetot and the A13 autoroute by way of the forêt de Brotonne (Brotonne forest), from which the bridge gets its name.

Prince Umberto of Savoy-Aosta

Umberto was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the first child and son of Prince Aimone, Duke of Apulia and his wife, the former Princess Olga of Greece.

Renée Gailhoustet

Gailhoustet's works are to be found mainly in the Paris suburbs, first and foremost at Ivry-sur-Seine and Aubervilliers, but also in Saint-Denis (renovation of the Ilot Basilique, 1981–1985), Villejuif, Romainville and Villetaneuse.

US Sénart-Moissy

US Sénart-Moissy is a French football club based in Moissy-Cramayel (Seine-et-Marne) and member of the Championnat de France amateur - Group D.

Voguéo

After 15 minutes of travel from its base, it reached the second stop at the twin Nelson Mandela Bridges which connect the communes of Ivry-sur-Seine and Charenton-le-Pont via the D154 autoroute.

Yves Duteil

He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), in 24 July 1949 and is the third child to be born in the family.


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