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unusual facts about Sophie d'Artois


Sophie d'Artois

Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria


1990 Stella Artois Championships

The 1990 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1990 ATP Tour.

1991 Stella Artois Championships

The 1991 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1991 ATP Tour.

1992 Stella Artois Championships

The 1992 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1992 ATP Tour.

1993 Stella Artois Championships

The 1993 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1993 ATP Tour.

1994 Stella Artois Championships

The 1994 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour.

1995 Stella Artois Championships

The 1995 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour.

1996 Stella Artois Championships

The 1996 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1996 ATP Tour.

1998 Stella Artois Championships

The 1998 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1998 ATP Tour.

1999 Stella Artois Championships

The 1999 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the World Series of the 1999 ATP Tour.

2000 Stella Artois Championships

The 2000 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom and was part of the International Series of the 2000 ATP Tour.

7 Valleys Pas de Calais

Depicted by The Sunday Times, UK, as Northern France’s best kept secret, the Seven Valleys is also called the Artois Valleys abounding in “rolling contours, as green and bushy as anything you will come across in Dordogne”.

Anthea Benton

Their work for Stella Artois launched the brands distinctive style of honouring European cinema, with its nod to Jean de Florette.

Artois, California

It is served by the California Northern Railroad, formerly the west Sacramento Valley line of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Battle of Al Mansurah

The ships of the Seventh Crusade sailed from the French ports of Aigues-Mortes and Marseille to Cyprus during the autumn of 1248, then in 1249 sailed toward Egypt, led by King Louis's brothers, Charles d'Anjou and Robert d'Artois.

Battle of Fariskur

With the full support of Pope Innocent IV during the First Council of Lyon, King Louis IX of France accompanied by his brothers Charles d'Anjou and Robert d'Artois launched the Seventh Crusade against Egypt.

Battle of Saint-Omer

He ordered Robert III of Artois, an old pretender to the title of Count of Artois to take 1,000 English and over 10,000 Flemish troops which had gathered into the Artois region and conduct a miniature chevauchée in the region, attempting to provoke the French into action and perhaps to capture an important fortified town such as Saint-Omer.

Caspar de Robles

Caspar de Robles or Gaspard di Robles (Madrid, 1527 – Antwerp, 1585) also known as Billy in Artois, was Stadholder of Friesland and Groningen at the beginning of the Eighty Years' War (reign: 1568 to 1576).

Charles Alexandre de Calonne

He was present with the Count of Artois, the reactionary brother of Louis XVI, at Pillnitz in August 1791 at the time of the issuance of the Declaration of Pillnitz, an attempt to intimidate the revolutionary government of France that the Count of Artois pressed for.

Château de Méréville

To this end he commissioned major artists such as Bélanger (famous in this decade for having constructed Bagatelle in only two months for the comte d'Artois), the famous cabinetmaker Leleu, the sculptor Augustin Pajou and the painter Claude Joseph Vernet.

Claude Nunney

He died aged 25, 16 days after receiving what proved to be mortal wounds and was buried at Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, near Aubigny-en-Artois (Grave reference number IV. B. 39).

County of Saint-Pol

The county of Saint-Pol (or Sint-Pols) was a county around the French city of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise (Sint-Pols-aan-de-Ternas) on the border of Artois and Picardy, formerly the county of Ternois.

Don des vaisseaux

Langdoc obliged, and the example was followed the next year by the Estates of the provinces of Brittany, Burgundy, Artois, Flanders; the cities of Paris, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Marseille; some particular institutions such as the Posts, the Six Corps (corporations of the merchants of Paris), the Ferme générale, the Chambers of commerce; and even individuals.

Florent de Berlaymont

In 1579 he succeeded his brother Gilles, who was killed at the Siege of Maastricht (1579), as stadtholder of Namur and Artois.

François-Joseph Bélanger

Bélanger constructed the Folie Saint James, a French landscape garden, in Neuilly from 1777 to 1780, and worked for the comte d'Artois at the Château of Maisons-Lafitte.

Frederick Rosier

He first saw active service during the Second World War in France where he commanded a detachment of 229 Squadron at Vitry-en-Artois near Arras and was shot down by an Messerschmitt Bf 109 receiving facial burns.

Guy D'Artois

In March 1999, Major L.G. d'Artois, a hero in war and peace, died in the Veterans Hospital in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.

Hengelo Bier

In 1988 the brewery was closed by Stella Artois after they lost a major supermarket contract to Bavaria Brewery.

Henry Botterell

He was returning from dropping four bombs on the railway station at Vitry when he saw the balloon.

Joan I

Joan I of Navarre (1271–1305), daughter of King Henry I of Navarre and Blanche of Artois

Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil

Following the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, which marked the beginning of the French Revolution, Vaudreuil, in the company of his old royal comrade, the comte d'Artois, left Versailles on horseback for the Austrian Netherlands.

Louise d'Esparbès de Lussan

Marie Louise d’Esparbès de Lussan, by marriage vicomtesse then comtesse de Polastron (Bardigues, 19 October 1764 – London, 27 March 1804) was a member of the Esparbès de Lussan family and the mistress of the comte d’Artois, who later reigned as Charles X of France.

Margaret I

Margaret I, Countess of Burgundy (1310–1382), daughter of Philip V, Countess Palatine of Burgundy, Countess of Artois, countess-consort of Flanders, Nevers & Rethel

Margaret III, Countess of Flanders

John the Fearless (1371–1419, murdered at Montereau), her eldest son and successor in Flanders, Artois and Burgundy

Margaret of Bavaria

In 1385, at the Burgundian double wedding in Cambrai, she married John, Count of Nevers, the son and heir of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and Margaret of Dampierre, Countess of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy; at the same time her brother, William II, Duke of Bavaria married their daughter Margaret of Burgundy, Duchess of Bavaria.

Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully

He was born at the Château de Rosny near Mantes-la-Jolie into a branch of the House of Bethune, a noble family originating in Artois, and was brought up in the Reformed faith, a Huguenot.

Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix

Comte d'Artois was the youngest of the three sons of Louis, Dauphin of France (son of Louis XV) and Marie Leszczyńska and, unlike his two brothers Louis XVI and the future Louis XVIII, was inclined for the most part to easy and expensive pleasures, while reluctant to engage in reading and reflection.

Philippe de Vitry

While some medieval sources claim that he was born in the Champagne region, more recent research indicates that he may have originated in Vitry-en-Artois near Arras.

Picardy

"P'tit quinquin", a Picard song, is a symbol of the local culture (and of that of Artois).

Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny

Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny was born at Fauquembergues, near Saint-Omer, in the former Artois region of France (now Pas-de-Calais), four months before the marriage of his parents, Marie-Antoinette Dufresne and Nicolas Monsigny.

Rachel Tan

In her capacity as an ambassador, she attended the Stella Artois Tennis Tournament in London, traveled to Beijing for the Chinese Tennis Open and visited the Rado watch factory near Bern, Switzerland.

Robert III of Artois

Robert III of Artois (1287–1342) was Lord of Conches-en-Ouche, of Domfront, and of Mehun-sur-Yèvre, and in 1310 he received as appanage the county of Beaumont-le-Roger in restitution for the county of Artois which he claimed.

Rue de Créqui

The street was named as tribute of a family of Artois which several members were famous, including Charles 1st (1578-1638), Duke of Lesdiguieres, Lieutenant General of the Dauphine, whom the street is name after.

Sigebert I

But at Sigebert's moment of triumph, when he had just been declared king by Chilperic's subjects at Vitry-en-Artois, he was struck down by two assassins working for Fredegund.

Treaty of the Pyrenees

France gained Roussillon and Perpignan, Montmédy and other parts of Luxembourg, Artois and other towns in Flanders, including Arras, Béthune, Gravelines and Thionville, and a new border with Spain was fixed at the Pyrenees.

Trench railways

Former British trench railway equipment was put to civilian use rebuilding Vis-en-Artois between Arras and Cambrai.

Vitry-en-Artois

Aerial photography has revealed an isolated circular ditch monument at Vitry.


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