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unusual facts about Senlis, Oise



Alphonse Royer

Royer and Gautier and their mistresses were also frequent visitors to Heine's summer house in Montmorency.

Arise the Republic

The party also claims 3 general councillors, and Mayors in four communes: Yerres, Cambrai, Saint-Prix and Ancinnes.

Arnold Horace Santo Waters

On 4 November 1918 near Ors, France, Major Waters, with his Field Company, was bridging the Oise-Sambre Canal under artillery and machine-gun fire at close range, the bridge being damaged and the building party suffering severe casualties.

Auvers-sur-Oise

During the 19th century, a number of painters lived and worked in Auvers-sur-Oise, including Paul Cézanne, Charles-François Daubigny, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and, of course, Vincent van Gogh.

Blossoming Chestnut Branches

Blossoming Chestnut Branches was painted by Vincent van Gogh during the artist's Auvers-sur-Oise period in May 1890, the final year of his life.

Chantilly porcelain

Chantilly porcelain is French soft-paste porcelain produced between 1730 and 1800 by the manufactory of Chantilly in Oise, France.

Claude Gewerc

In March 1998, he was elected to the Picardie Regional Council to represent the Oise, and was President of the Socialist group in the regional council from 1998 to 2004, at which date he defeated the incumbent UDF administration to become Regional president.

Congregation of Jesus and Mary

After his death, directors were appointed for the Seminaries of Valognes, Avranches, Dol, Senlis, Blois, Domfront and Séez.

Emilio Boggio

He returned to France in 1920 and soon thereafter died on 6 July 1920 at Auvers-sur-Oise in 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

Eustache Deschamps

His satires were also directed at corrupt officials and clergy but his sharp wit may have cost him his job as Bailli of Senlis.

François Louis, Prince of Conti

He was buried alongside his mother at his property in L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, near Paris.

Friedrich Gilly

They include views of the Fountain of Regeneration, the Rue des Colonnes—an arcaded street of baseless Doric columns leading to the Théâtre Feydeau—the chamber of the Conseil des Anciens in the Tuileries and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s grotto in its landscaped setting at Ermenonville, Oise.

Gare de Balagny-Saint-Épin

The Gare de Balagny-Saint-Épin (Balagny-Saint-Épin station) is a railway station located in the commune of Balagny-sur-Thérain in the Oise department, France, it is also located near the settlement of Saint-Épin in the commune of Bury.

Gare de Cramoisy

The Gare de Cramoisy (Cramoisy station) is a railway station located in the commune of Cramoisy in the Oise department, France.

Gare de Franconville – Le Plessis-Bouchard

Franconville - Le Plessis-Bouchard is a station in Franconville, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.

Gilles de Roye

He was afterwards professor of theology in Paris and abbot of the monastery of Royaumont at Asnières-sur-Oise, retiring about 1458 to the convent of Notre Dame des Dunes (Ten Duinen) at Koksijde, near Veurne, and devoting his time to study.

Girl in White

Girl in White (also known as Young Girl Standing Against a Background of Wheat and Woman in a Cornfield) was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, during the last months of his life.

Goussainville, Val-d'Oise

Goussainville was the site of the crash of the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 during the 1973 Paris Air Show which led to the deaths of all six people on board and eight more on the ground and is less than 6km from Gonesse, the site of the crash of the supersonic Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000.

Head in Flames

Van Gogh finds himself standing in a field in Auvers-sur-Oise in July 1890, debating whether or not to commit suicide.

Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale

Elected deputy for the Oise département, he returned to France, and succeeded to the fauteuil of the comte Montalembert in the Académie française.

Hugues Portelli

Portelli is also the mayor of Ermont, a city located in the North of Paris (Val d'Oise department) as well as a Professor of Political science and Constitutional Law at the prestigious Panthéon-Assas University.

Jacquerie

The bourgeoisie of Beauvais, Senlis, Paris, Amiens and Meaux, sorely pressed by the court party, accepted the Jacquerie, and the urban underclass were sympathetic.

Jacques Vallée

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.

Joan II of Navarre

Later on she exchanged Angoulême for three estates in Vexin:- Pontoise, Beaumont-sur-Oise, and Asnière-sur-Oise.

Le Grand Blond avec un show sournois

Le Grand Blond avec un show sournois (the title a pastiche of the title of the film Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire) was a Québecoise late night comedy television show presented by Marc Labrèche, shown from 2001 to 2003 (2 seasons of 114 episodes) on TVA.

Léon Germain Pelouse

Léon Germain Pelouse (October 1, 1838 – July 31st,1891) was a French painter born in Pierrelaye (Val-d'oise, France).

Louis Till

Till was buried in Grave 73, Row 7 of Plot E in Oise-Aisne American Cemetery.

Maxime Dethomas

Born in Garges-lès-Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, Maxime Dethomas came from a long line of painter-printers on one side of his family and of lawyers on the other.

Montmorency, Victoria

Montmorency was named after a local farm, Montmorency Estate, which in turn was named for the town of Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, where the French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived briefly.

Nils von Dardel

A typical example is Begravning i Senlis (Funeral in Senlis) from 1913, which he painted while staying in the small medieval town of Senlis.

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

In order to have an operation done and also to settle his inheritance, in 1715 the travelled to Paris, where he stayed with his friend, the patron and collector Pierre Crozat, whose cabinet in his Parisian house and chapel in his country retreat at Montmorency Le Gros decorated (both destroyed).

Portraits by Vincent van Gogh

The twelve-year-old Adeline Ravoux was the daughter of Arthur-Gustave Ravoux, whose inn is where Van Gogh lodged in Auvers-sur-Oise.

Sainte-Geneviève, Quebec

At the heart of the conflict that led to the separation of Sainte-Geneviève was the famous lawyer Joseph-Adolphe Chauret, who in 1902 built a stately home reminiscent of homes in Pierrefonds, France, in the Department of Oise.

Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton

Simon was the third son of Laudri de Senlis, sire of Chantilly and Ermenonville (in Picardy), and his spouse, Ermengarde.

They had two sons, Simon II de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton, and Waltheof of Melrose, and one daughter, Maud de Senlis, who married (1st) Robert Fitz Richard (of the De Clare family), of Little Dunmow, Essex.

Société de Transport Interurbains du Val d'Oise

The company was created in 1974 by Cars Giraux and Cars Lacroix with the task of transporting the increasing population of the new town of Cergy-Pontoise.

The Town Hall at Auvers

Along with other canvases from his short period in Auvers-sur-Oise, such as The Church at Auvers and paintings of houses with thatched roofs, this painting seems reminiscent of scenes from the northern landscapes of Van Gogh's childhood and youth.

Trophée des Grimpeurs

The Trophée des Grimpeurs, called Polymultipliée until 1970, is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in the region of Val-d'Oise, France, between Argenteuil and Sannois.

View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Rémy

The painting was originally thought to be a view of the church at Labbeville, near Auvers, where he moved following his stay at the asylum, but it is now accepted to be a view of the asylum and church at Saint-Rémy.

Villarceau

Domaine of Villarceaux, a château, water garden, and park in the commune of Chaussy in the Val d'Oise Department of France

Viromandui

However historical records of their military movements and military strength suggests that they were a much larger tribe than could be supported in this area and it is predicted by some scholars that, “…Although their lands included at least the diocese of Noyon, they almost certainly extended into Laon and parts of northern Oise”.

William of Huntingfield

William was son of Roger de Huntingfield and Alice de Senlis who was a granddaughter of Simon I.


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