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14 unusual facts about Suresnes


Betty Mars

She died three weeks later, on 20 February in the Foch Hospital at Suresnes.

Felipe González

He was elected Secretary General of the Party at the Suresnes Congress, in France.

Heinkel He 274

The He 274 V1 was repaired by Ateliers Aéronautiques de Suresnes (AAS) and used by the Armée de l'Air (French Air Force) for several years as a high-altitude research plane.

These proposed aircraft were shortly thereafter officially given the airframe project number 8-274 by the RLM, and due to the heavily preoccupied Heinkel factory design offices and aircraft manufacturing facilities, this new "He 274" high-altitude bomber was to have its prototypes built in France by the Societe des Usines Farman (Farman Brothers) in Suresnes.

Henrik Christian Fredrik Størmer

At the end of the 1870s, Størmer travelled to France, and constructed a charcoal factory in Suresnes.

Jouffret

Built by a M. Demeester, first in Suresnes and then in Colombes they were sometimes marketed under his own name.

Serge Leveur

Leveur's personal best jump was 5.60 m, which he achieved twice: in June 1985 in Suresnes, and in July 1986 in Paris.

Shapour Bakhtiar

On 6 August 1991, Bakhtiar was murdered along with his secretary, Soroush Katibeh, by three assassins in his home in the Parisian suburb of Suresnes.

Singuila

Bedaya Singuila N'Garoest better known as Singuila (born September 19, 1977 in Suresnes, France) is a French singer of Congolese and Central African descent.

Société d'Etudes Aéronautiques

The Société d'Etudes Aéronautiques ("Society for Aeronautical Studies") was a French aircraft manufacturer founded in 1916 by Henry Potez, Marcel Bloch, and Louis Coroller at Suresnes.

Spanish Democratic Socialist Party

In PSOE García López had been booed by the delegates at the party congress in Suresnes.

Standard Athletic Club

In its early days, the Club was simply a loose association of young Britons who wanted to play sport together in the bois de Boulogne, but gradually grew to a size where playing fields were rented in 1906 at the Val d’Or in Suresnes.

The Magdalen Reading

There is a further small panel in Lisbon of a female head, richly or royally dressed, which first appeared in 1907 with the Joseph panel when it was recorded in the inventory of Leo Nardus at Suresnes.

These two works were not recorded in inventory until 1907, when they appear in the collection of Léo Lardus in Suresnes, France.


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Julie Gayet

Gayet was born in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, where her father Brice Gayet was a professor of gastric surgery at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris and her mother was an antique dealer.