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8 unusual facts about Tarbes


Daniel Cox

Whilst playing tennis for Lancashire, he first came into international prominence when he reached the finals of Le Petit As, Tarbes.

Herschel Space Observatory

The mirror's blank was manufactured by Boostec in Tarbes, France; ground and polished by Opteon Ltd. in Tuorla Observatory, Finland; and coated by vacuum deposition at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain.

Jules Laforgue

In 1866 the family moved back to France, to Tarbes, his father's hometown, but in 1867 Jules' father and mother chose to return to Uruguay, taking along their nine younger children, leaving Jules and his older brother Émile in Tarbes to be raised with a cousin's family.

Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris

On 18 July 1956 the French government requisitioned 50 aircraft, including 14 for the Navy, from Tarbes-based manufacturer Morane-Saulnier.

Penarth RFC

Annually between 1910 and 1913 Penarth RFC toured France playing matches against teams from Tarbes, Bayonne pau Brive, Bordeaux and Le Havre.

Saint Lycerius

According to tradition, which cannot be verified, he was a native of Civitas Bigorra, the present Saint-Lizier, near Tarbes.

SOCATA TBM

It was planned that two production lines be set up, one at Kerrville to cater for the American market and the other at Socata's factory at Tarbes to build aircraft for the rest of the world.

Tarbes Cathedral

Tarbes Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Sède de Tarbes) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France located in the town of Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées.


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Bigerriones

The Bigerriones were an Aquitani pre-Roman tribe settled in what today is southwestern France, around the city of Castrum Bigorra, present-day Saint-Lézer and Civitas Turba, present-day Tarbes.

Île-de-France tramway Line 3

The trains were ordered in December 2003, and manufactured in factories at Le Creusot (bogies), Tarbes (electrical and electronic traction), Villeurbanne (electronics), Ornans (motors), with final assembly performed at Aytré, near La Rochelle.

St. Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Cuddalore

This school was elevated into a college in 1884 through the efforts of Father Tarbes and was affiliated to the University of Madras.


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