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8 unusual facts about Tournon


Ainay

On 2 August that year the dauphin Francis played at a jeu de paume court "prés d'Ainay" and, getting overheated, drank a glass of iced water which proved fatal (he died a few days later at Tournon, aged 18).

Alfred Lesbros

He painted approximately a thousand works that can be seen in museums and public collections in Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Avignon, Marseille, Montpellier and Tournon.

Almucs de Castelnau

It tells how Iseut begged Almucs de Castelnau to pardon Gigo (Gui), lord of Tournon (Tornon) in the Vivarais, Iseut's knight, who had committed "a great fault" against Almucs.

Balthazar Baro

He studied at Tournon-sur-Rhône then at Valence, where he gained his law doctorate in 1615, and became secretary to Honoré d'Urfé, whom he had met when they attended the same collège in Tournon, he published Urfé's L'Astrée and wrote a fifth book for it himself (from his master's notes) in 1628.

Cardinal de Soubise

Cardinal François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris - 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a French prelate, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg.

Claude Charles Fauriel

He was born at Saint-Étienne, Loire, the son of a poor joiner, but received a good education in the Oratorian colleges of Tournon and Lyon.

John Francis Regis

While he was teaching, he also pursued his studies in philosophy at the scholasticate at Tournon.

Vincent van der Vinne

The next spring they traveled further south to Lyon and spent some months in Tournon.



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