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9 unusual facts about Southern France


Alexander N'Doumbou

At the age of 12, N'Doumbou departed the country for France joining local club FC Carpentras in the south of France.

Ed Starink

By 1996 Starink decided to end creating cover versions, and moved two years later to Southern France.

Fili

Eventually classical literature and the Romantic literature that grew from the troubadour tradition of the langue d'oc superseded the material that that would have been familiar to the ancient fili.

Gaius Sextius Calvinus

During his consulship, he joined M. Fulvius Flaccus in waging war against the Ligures, Saluvii, and Vocontii in the Mediterranean region of present-day France.

Jeb Dunnuck

He reviews wines from the Rhône Valley (North and South), Southern France, Washington, and Central & Southern California for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate and eRobertParker.com, the global bimonthly wine publication and website founded by influential wine critic, Robert Parker.

Kings Go Forth

The plot involves friends of different backgrounds manning an observation post in Southern France who fall in love with the same French girl.

Lionel Casson

In a 2005 speech to the Archaeological Institute of America accepting its Gold Medal, Casson recalled a trip to Southern France in 1953 when he had the opportunity to visit Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who was performing an investigation of an ancient shipwreck.

Nils Brakchi

Many of Brakchi's earlier works draw on inspiration from his extensive visits to Morocco, Southern France and the Caribbean.

Ruben Talberg

Talberg, a member of Mensa International, lives and works in Offenbach and Southern France.


8th Airlift Squadron

The history of the 8th includes airborne assaults on Sicily and Southern France, support of partisans in Northern Italy and the Balkans, and transportation of personnel and supplies in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, during World War II.

Alès Film Festival

The Alès Film Festival (French: Le Festival Cinéma d'Alès Itinérances) is a film festival held annually in the commune of Alès located within the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France.

Keith Floyd

Floyd sold the restaurants and the rights to the name "Floyd's Restaurant" and moved to the south of France, where again he opened a restaurant in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse.


see also

103d Airlift Wing

The group converted to Republic P-47 Thunderbolts in July and supported the assault on southern France in August by dive-bombing gun positions, bridges, and radarfacilities, and by patrolling the combat zone.

1804 in archaeology

In southern France, the Ratapignata Pyramid (Aven de Ratapignata) is discovered on the hillside north of Nice, France and northwest of Falicon.

301st Operations Group

In 1944–1945, supported ground forces in the Anzio and Cassino areas during the invasion of Southern France, knocked out targets to assist the Russian advance in the Balkans, and aided the Allied drive through the Po Valley.

438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group

On 20 July the air echelons of the 87th, 88th and 89th Troop Carrier Squadrons departed for Canino airbase in Italy in preparation for the August invasion of Southern France, Operation Dragoon.

Adolf Fleischmann

By the end of the war, he lived in various places in southern France, especially in Graulhet, Tarn (department).

Aix Annunciation

Executed in 1443-1445, it was originally placed in the Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur, Aix-en-Provence, southern France.

Ancient Diocese of Senez

Its see was at Senez, in southern France, in the modern department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

Assumptionists

The Augustinians of the Assumption (A.A.) constitute a congregation of Catholic religious (priests and brothers), founded in Nîmes, southern France, by Fr.

Berre

Berre-l'Étang, a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France

Camon

Camon, Ariège, a commune in the Midi-Pyrénées region of southern France

Canton of Montauban-3

The Canton of Montauban-3 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Château de Saint-Martin de Toques

The Château de Saint-Martin de Toques is a partly ruined, mountaintop castle in the Bizanet commune in the Aude département of southern France.

Clovis culture

The controversial Solutrean hypothesis proposed in 1999 by Smithsonian archaeologist Dennis Stanford and colleague Bruce Bradley (Stanford and Bradley 2002), suggests that the Clovis people could have inherited technology from the Solutrean people who lived in southern Europe 21,000–15,000 years ago, and who created the first Stone Age artwork in present-day southern France.

Culex modestus

It is believed to be the principle bridge vector of WNV between birds and humans in southern France and is thought to have played a role in WNV transmission in the Danube delta, Caspian and Asov sea deltas, and the Volga region in Russia.

Daughters of Jesus

That same year, on 1 July, the Daughters of Jesus of Brittany merged with an older congregation of the same name founded in 1820 in Vaylats in southern France.

Ed Dorn

During the 1990s, after a teaching exchange visit to Paul Valery University in Montpellier inspired an interest in the Cathars of Southern France, he started working on Languedoc Variorum: A Defense of Heresy and Heretics.

Elzéar of Sabran

Saint Elzéar of Sabran, T.O.S.F., Baron of Ansouis, Count of Ariano, was born in the castle of Saint-Jean-de-Robians, near Cabrières-d'Aigues in Provence, southern France, in 1285.

Ernest Lawson

He practiced plein air painting in southern France and at Moret-sur-Loing, where he met the English Impressionist Alfred Sisley.

Felix De Smedt

After World War II had broken out in Belgium on May 10, 1940, he accompanied his father to work in Moissac near Toulouse in Southern France, which at that time was still unoccupied.

German submarine U-466

Her fifth patrol involved the U-boat's passage to Toulon in southern France.

Henry Christy

An account of the explorations appeared in a half-finished book left by Christy, entitled Reliquiae Aquilanicae, being contributions to the Archaeology and Paleontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France; this was completed by Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his death in 1870, by Rupert Jones.

Ito-Balmond Serpentine Pavilion

The Ito-Balmond Serpentine Pavilion is a structure designed by Cecil Balmond and Toyo Ito and originally built for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion programme in London’s Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park in 2002 and now part of a restaurant in southern France.

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).

Joël Prévost

Born in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France, Prévost was adopted soon after birth by a family from northern France, renamed Jean-Luc Potaux, and grew up at Trith-Saint-Léger, close to the border with Belgium.

Joseph Galien

Born at Saint-Paulien, near Le Puy-en-Velay in southern France, Galien entered the Dominican Order at Le Puy.

Lahntal

Lahntal has been partnered since 6 April 1986 with the community of Sussargues, which lies in the department of Hérault in southern France, right near Montpellier (about 17 km) and the Mediterranean Sea.

Leonhard Rauwolf

The young Rauwolff studied initially at University of Wittenberg and then studied botany and medicine at two universities in southern France, University of Montpellier and University of Valence.

Lucien Clergue

Clergue has taken many photographs of the gypsies of southern France, and he was instrumental in propelling the guitarist Manitas de Plata to fame.

Peter Windsor

Shortly before the start of the 1986 season, Windsor was in an automobile accident when the car he was riding in with Frank Williams crashed on the way from the Paul Ricard Circuit in southern France to the Nice airport, causing Windsor minor injuries but leaving Williams, who was driving, paralysed.

Picholine

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

Randon

Châteauneuf-de-Randon, commune in the Lozère department in southern France

Roman mole

(It was last been recorded on Sicily in 1885. There is also an unconfirmed report about an isolated subpopulation in the Var region of southern France.)

Shahan Shahnour

Shahnour died on August 20, 1974, in the hospital of Saint-Raphaël, in Southern France.

Shahmirza Moradi

In 1991, Moradi performed at the Avignon festival (southern France) and in the autumn of the same year, at two successive concerts in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

Shlomo Kleit

Kleit left Lithuania for political reasons and lived in Berlin, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Southern France and Toronto.

SNCF Class BB 22200

After the first test held in 1976, the BB 22200 were introduced on the MarseilleNiceVentimiglia line in southern France–northern Italy.

Talc

The France-based Luzenac Group is the world's largest supplier of mined talc; its largest talc mine at Trimouns near Luzenac in southern France produces 400,000 tonnes of talc per year, representing 8% of world production.

Tartarin of Tarascon

It tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very prosaic Algiers in search of lions.

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.

Théodore Année

Monsieur Année then spent the next 20 years creating many more cultivars, until retiring to Nice, in Southern France, in 1866.

Tourbat

Its presence in Roussillon seems to trace to that area's time under the Kingdom of Majorca with James I of Aragon was lord of over a wide expanse of land that crosses the modern-day borders of southern France and northern eastern Spain.

Tourist landscape

The inspiration for the design of Porte Zelande on the Brouwersdam was drawn from Port Grimaud in southern France.

Vaucluse, New South Wales

Sir Henry Browne Hayes, an avid admirer of the 14th-century poet Petrarch, named the house after Petrarch's poem about the famous Fontaine de Vaucluse near the town L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in what is today the Department of Vaucluse in southern France.

Vauvenargues

Vauvenargues, a commune of the Bouches-du-Rhône département in southern France, near Aix-en-Provence

Vía de la Plata

After its establishment, the Via Delapidata crossed Hispania from Cádiz, through the Pyrenees, towards Gallia Narbonensis (southern France) and Rome in the Italian Peninsula.

Villeneuve-Loubet mass grave

Villeneuve-Loubet mass grave is a grave site near the village of Villeneuve-Loubet, near Nice, in the Maritime Alps region of southern France.

Western Demoiselle

It replaces the Banded Demoiselle (C. splendens) in southern France and the Iberian Peninsula, and is sometimes considered a subspecies of that species (hybrids frequently occur in areas where they overlap).

Wilhelm Wilmers

He entered the Society of Jesus at Brieg in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, 1834, was expelled from the country with the other Jesuits in 1847, and ordained priest at Ay in Southern France, 1848.