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unusual facts about Solesmes, Sarthe


Solesmes Abbey

Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes) is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes (Sarthe, France), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in the country under Dom Prosper Guéranger after the French Revolution.


1966 24 Hours of Le Mans

Ford sent no less than eight Mark II to La Sarthe, entered by three teams: Shelby, Holman & Moody and Alan Mann Racing.

Alfred Léon Gérault-Richard

Alfred Léon Gérault (1860–1911), known as Gérault-Richard, was a French journalist and socialist politician, born at Bonnétable (in the départment of Sarthe) of a peasant family.

Arnage

Arnage, Sarthe, a commune of the Sarthe département in France

Auguste Chaillou

Auguste Chaillou (August 21, 1866 – April 23, 1915) was a French biologist and physician born in Parennes in the department of Sarthe.

Château de Boisclaireau

Château de Boisclaireau was the residence of the noble Gueroust family, who were the Counts of Boisclaireau, in Teillé, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, France.

Chenu

Chenu, Sarthe, a commune of the Sarthe département, in France

Ebernhahn

Since 1973, there has existed a partnership between Ebernhahn and the French community of Marolles-les-Braults in the department of Sarthe.

Fort Augustus Abbey

From 1893 the Solesmes version of the Gregorian melodies was used in all liturgical services.

François-Pierre Cherrier

He was born in Savigné-l’Évêque in Sarthe, the son of François Cherrier and Périnne Isambart, and came to Saint-Antoine-de-Longueuil in New France, where his uncle was parish priest, in 1736.

Helier

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

Henry de Beaumont

, (d. after 1 September 1297) who was in right of his wife Agnés de Beaumont, Vicomte of Beaumont in Maine and Seigneur of Beaumont-le-Vicomte (alias Beaumont-sur-Sarthe), Sainte-Suzanne, la Fleche, Fresnay, le Lude, etc.

Hulbert, Oklahoma

The Clear Creek Monastery, recently elevated to the status of an Abbey, is a foundation Abbey of France's Notre Dame de Fontgombault, which is itself a foundation Abbey of Saint Pierre de Solesmes, also in France.

Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac

He had announced his intention of retiring from political life when he died at his country-seat near Flée (Sarthe) on September 25, 1905.

John Daykins

On 20 October 1918 at Solesmes, France, Sergeant Daykins, with 12 remaining men of his platoon, rushed a machine-gun and during subsequent severe hand-to-hand fighting he himself disposed of many of the enemy and secured his objective.

John II, Count of Soissons

Matilda was the widow of Richard II, the viscount of Beaumont-sur-Sarthe.

Jules Leroy

As a novice he joined the French Benedictine congregation of Solesmes in their exile at Isle of Wight.

La Chapelle-Huon

It is the department of Sarthe, which is since 1790 the eastern part of the former province of Maine.

LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire

After a connection north of Le Mans, the LGV will dip towards the southwest with a connection to the regular Le Mans-Angers line near Sablé-sur-Sarthe.

Louis-Charles Couturier

During the remainder of Couturier's life the community lived in three separate houses in the town of Solesmes, using the parochial church as their abbey church.

Louis-Charles Couturier (12 May 1817, Chemillé-sur-Dôme, Diocese of Tours - 29 October 1890, Solesmes) was a French Benedictine, abbot of the monastery of Saint-Pierre at Solesmes and President of the French Congregation of Benedictines.

Marie-Gabriel Tissot

In 1964 he retired and returned to live at Solesmes, where after many years of tranquil life he died suddenly on 21 September 1983.

Perche

The greater part of the district is occupied by a semicircle of heights (from 650 to 1000 ft. in height) stretching from Moulins-la-Marche on the northwest to Montmirail on the south; within the basin formed thereby the shape of which is defined by the Huisne, an affluent of the Sarthe, lie the chief towns of Mortagne-au-Perche, Nogent-le-Rotrou and Bellême.

Phạm Duy Khiêm

Phạm Duy Khiêm (Hanoi, 24 April 1908 – Montreuil-le-Henri, Sarthe, 2 December 1974) was a Vietnamese writer, academic and South Vietnam ambassador in France.

He committed suicide on December 2, 1974 at his home in Montreuil-le-Henri, Sarthe.

Sarthe

Marin Mersenne, perhaps the most important scientific figure in the early 1600s, was born in the vicinity of Sarthe.

Solesmes

Solesmes Abbey, also known as St. Peter's Abbey, in the Sarthe department

Sonya Butt

On 28 May 1944, Sonya was parachuted into the department of the Sarthe in the area of Le Mans to work as a Courier, under the codename "Blanche".

St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde

He bought the Priory at Solesmes, which subsequently was raised to the range of Abbey by Pope Gregory XVI.

As one of the institutes devoted 'entirely to divine worship in the contemplative life' (Vatican II, Perfectae Caritatis, 9) and following the tradition of Solesmes, St Cecilia's Abbey lays principal emphasis on the solemn celebration of the liturgy, with Mass and the Divine Office sung daily in Gregorian chant.


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