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unusual facts about Un, deux, trois



2010 Star Mazda Championship season

Five races will support the American Le Mans Series, and will also join the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge at Trois-Rivières.

Actant

Étienne Souriau, Les deux cent mille situations dramatiques, in French 1950.

Alexis HK

2011 saw another 2-month tour under the title Seuls à trois with Renan Luce and Benoît Dorémus.

Café de Flore

In his essay "A Tale of Two Cafes" and his book Paris to the Moon, American writer Adam Gopnik mused over the possible explanations of why the Flore had become, by the late 1990s, much more fashionable and popular than its rival, Les Deux Magots, despite the fact that the latter cafe was associated with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and other famous thinkers of the 1940s and 1950s.

Céline sur les Plaines

# "Les trois petits cochons" (Dan Bigras and Mes Aïeux)

CHLN

CKOB-FM, a radio station (106.9 FM) licensed to Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, which formerly held the call sign CHLN-FM

Colombey-les-Deux-Églises

A memorial museum was inaugurated in October 2008 by Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel.

This joint Franco-German act marked the fiftieth anniversary of talks in Colombey on 14 September 1958 between Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, as part of the process of post-war reconciliation.

Denys Puech

1881 and 1883 saw his first successes, when he twice won the second prize in the prix de Rome contest, for his Tyrtaeus singing the Messanians (Tyrtée chantant les Messéniennes) and Diagoras dying for joy on learning of his two victorious children's triumph at the Olympic Games (Diagoras mourant de joie en apprenant le triomphe de ses deux enfants vainqueurs aux Jeux Olympiques) respectively.

Détroit

The music was composed for Wajdi Mouawad's production of a trilogy from Sophocles titled Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle or just Des Femmes.

Deux-Ponts

Breguet Deux-Ponts, a family of 1940s and 1950s French double-deck transport aircraft produced by Breguet

Dinorah

The story takes place near the rural town of Ploërmel and is based on two Breton tales by Émile Souvestre, "La Chasse aux trésors" and "Le Kacouss de l'Armor", both published separately in 1850 in the Revue des deux mondes.

Doudou Gouirand

With the very successful Nino Rota/Fellini album (Deux Z/Harmonia Mundi, 1995), acclaimed arrangement and composition work done around Nino Rota's film music, he explored a more European and typically Mediterranean idiom, while keeping a lot of improvisation.

Entre Deux Guerres

L'Entre Deux Guerres is a French expression (~ between two wars) which refers to the interwar period between World War I and World War II (1918 - 1939).

Floc'h

on a collection of cartoons inspired by the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jamais deux sans trois.

Gare de Parthenay

The Gare de Parthenay, or Parthenay railway station, is the railway station in the town of Parthenay, in the department of Deux-Sèvres in western France.

Georges Pichard

Toward the end of his life, Pichard adapted classic erotic stories such as Les Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan by Guillaume Apollinaire, The Kama-Sutra by Vatsyayana, Trois filles de leur mère by Pierre Louÿs, La Religieuse by Denis Diderot and Germinal by Émile Zola.

Gregoria

Cyril Mango in Deux études sur Byzance et la Perse Sassanide (1985) speculated they were descendants of Heraclius of Edessa, a general under Leo I and Zeno.

Groove Theory

Wilson appeared in the films Beauty Shop, Trois and Hair Show, and produced music for Beyoncé, Amerie and Mary J. Blige.

Guillaume de Tonquédec

He was made famous in 1991 as school-boy and Claude Jade's son Jules in Tableau d'honneur, followed by his Serge along with Juliette Binoche in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue and Claude Zidi's Deux starring Gérard Depardieu.

Les deux aveugles

A complete performance of Les deux aveugles (followed by Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins) forms part of the 1996 television film Offenbachs Geheimnis, directed by István Szabó.

Les Deux Plateaux

Les Deux Plateaux, more commonly known as the Colonnes de Buren, is a highly controversial art installation created by the French artist Daniel Buren in 1985–1986.

Lordship of Champlain

On the territory of the future lordship de Champlain, the first attempt of colonization on land granted by August 16, 1643 at Champlain to Jacques Aubuchon of Trois-Rivières has not resulted mainly because of the remoteness and the Iroquois threat.

Maria Kochetkova

Kochetkova performed the Grand Pas de Deux in San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker which was broadcast by PBS in 2008 and won the solo gold medal in the NBC series Superstars of Dance which was watched by over 10 million viewers.

Mékinac Lake

Just before the bridge over the Mekinac River, 4.7 km after the village of Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac, turn on Saint-Joseph path towards Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac, Quebec (municipality of Trois-Rives, Quebec), a legendary authentic village that was developed through forestry, agriculture and tourist activities.

The distance between the Mekinac bridge (Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac) and the dam of Lake Mekinac (Trois-Rives) is 18.4 km (measured by road).

Ostmecklenburgische Flugzeugbau

Realizing that the bulk of the market for this aircraft was in North America, Stinnes set up a production facility in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada with financial help from the Government of Quebec.

Pascal Humbert

Humbert and Cantat were also part of a collaborative project for Lebanese-Quebec artist Wajdi Mouawad in Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle (known as Femmes trilogy) within the context of Festival d'Avignon.

Phyllis Zouzounis

In 1987, Zouzounis and her Jim Penpraze, began their operation at Dry Creek, Deux Amis Winery, which specializes in Zinfandels.

Pimlico Mystery

In the famous book Hitchcock/Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock tells to French New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut that he once intended to make a film about this case, but later on he dropped the idea because Truffaut's film Jules and Jim also dealt with—according to his vision—a ménage à trois.

Plastered in Paris

The two return to the Commissioner admitting defeat when it is revealed the X is actually the Sûreté's new physical training instructor who was giving the Inspector and Deux Deux a workout.

Qui de nous deux

Qui de Nous Deux (2003) is an album by French singer-song-writer Matthieu Chedid in his persona as -M-.

Rabat-les-Trois-Seigneurs

The real name of the village is Rabat, but since 1931 the French post office administration has decided that the name has to be labelled as Rabat-les-Trois-Seigneurs to avoid a confusion with the city of Rabat in Morocco.

Rainforest Films

With this achievement, Rainforest Films landed at the #34 spot of The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 500 Film Distributors of 2000, and resulted in Trois being named one of Daily Variety’s Top 50 Highest Grossing Independent Films of the Year.

Richard Béliveau

Richard Béliveau (born 1953 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec) is currently the director of the Molecular Medicine Laboratory and a researcher in the Department of Neurosurgery at Notre-Dame Hospital.

Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Cathedral

Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Paul de Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux or Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux) is a former Roman Catholic cathedral, and national monument of France, in the town of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux.

Sylvie Tardif

In 2003 she won a by-election with 76% of the vote, without the blessing of Trois-Rivières Mayor Yves Lévesque.

The Time Runaways Series

The Three Gates (Les trois portes, 1977, Hachette, 2004, Degliame)

Théodore Chassériau

André-Pierre Nouvion, Trois familles en Périgord-Limousin dans la tourmente de la Révolution et de L'Empire : Nouvion, Besse-Soutet-Dupuy et Chassériau, Paris, 2007

Todd Bolender

Describing him in Jerome Robbins’ The Concert, she writes: “he was a henpecked husband who constantly escaped into daydreams of sexual conquest. Clad in a vest and long underwear and chewing on a huge cigar, he was the prototype of ... J. Walter Mitty.” Longtime New York City Ballet observer Robert Garis said of him in Agon, “his easy wit and charm in the first pas de trois seem unrecapturable” (ibid.)

Treatise of the Three Impostors

According to historian Silvia Berti, the book was originally published as La Vie et L'Esprit de Spinosa (The Life and Spirit of Spinoza),containing both a biography of Benedict Spinoza and the anti-religious essay, and was later republished under the title Traité sur les trois imposteurs.

Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant

The Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant is a collection of sites run by Areva and EDF located in 4 different communes Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Pierrelatte in Drôme, Bollène and Lapalud in Vaucluse, and four departments (Drome (26), Vaucluse (84), Gard (30) and Ardeche (07)) on right bank of the Channel of Donzère-Mondragon (diversion canal of the Rhône River) between Valence (70 km upstream) and Avignon (65 km downstream).

Trois

Two further films were produced in the film series, Pandora's Box and The Escort.

Trois 2: Pandora's Box

The studio believed that it was similar in some ways to director Rob Hardy's film Trois and branded it as a franchise.

Trois 2: Pandora's Box (also known as Pandora's Box) is a 2002 erotic thriller written and directed by Rob Hardy.

Trois grandes études

Recordings of the Trois grandes études have been made by Stephanie McCallum (1985), Ronald Smith (1987), Laurent Martin (1993), Marc-André Hamelin (1994), Albert Frantz (2012), and Alessandro Deljavan (2013).

Trois-Rivières Royals

From 1954-1955 they were a Philadelphia Phillies affiliate known as the Trois-Rivières Phillies.

Two Mountains

Lake of Two Mountains, Lac des Deux Montagnes, lake in the Greater Montreal Area

Two Years' Vacation

Deux ans de vacances is the first book Shiori Shiomiya reads from the shelves of the school library during a flashback to her childhood in the anime The World God Only Knows.


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