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unusual facts about University of Louvain-la-Neuve



20th Hussars

The Great War: Mons, Retreat from Mons; Marne 1914; Aisne 1914; Messines 1914; Ypres 1914, 1915; Neuve Chapelle; St. Julien; Bellewaarde; Arras 1917; Scarpe 1917; Cambrai 1917, 1918; Somme 1918; St. Quentin; Lys; Hazebrouck; Amiens; Albert 1918; Bapaume 1918; Hindenburg Line; St. Quentin Canal; Beaurevoir; Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Her father, the haberdasher Claude-Edme Labille, owned a shop named 'A La Toilette' situated in the Rue neuve des Petits Champs in the parish of Saint-Eustache.

Amélie-Julie Candeille

She was the object of a denunciation and a search was ordered of her residence at rue Neuve des Mathurins, but thanks to the Montagnard deputy Julien de Toulouse (a member of the Committee of General Security) she managed to avoid being labelled a suspect and thus arrested.

Andrew Fitzgerald

He was born in 1763 to James FitzGerald and Mary Fitzgerald (née Knarsborough) in High Street, Kilkenny City, he went to school in the Church of Ireland run Kilkenny College and at the age of 16 went to study in the University of Louvain becoming a Dominican friar.

Ansley J. Coale

Coale was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was a recipient of several honorary degrees from universities including Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Louvain and the University of Liège.

Bengal Engineer Group

World War I: La Bassée 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, France and Flanders 1914–15, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918, Aden, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Tigris 1916, Baghdad, Khan Baghdadi, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1915–18, Persia 1918, North West Frontier India 1915 '16–17, Baluchistan 1918;

Bernard Coulie

A dominant interest has been the work of Gregory of Nazianzus (Gregory the Theologian) and he has been closely associated since the 1980s with the NAZIANZOS project of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve which he has directed for approximately a quarter of a century.

Boitsfort railway station

Trains calling at this station are local trains travelling between Brussels-South and Louvain-La-Neuve, Louvain-La-Neuve and Binche (via Brussels-South) and between Brussels-South and Namur.

Bonn Graduate School of Economics

The coordinated curriculum of Bonn, Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Florence (European University Institute), London (London School of Economics), Louvain-la-Neuve (Université catholique), Paris (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), and Tel Aviv provides the opportunity for stundents to specialize in almost any area of quantitative economics.

Canton of Marseille – Saint-Marcel

The canton also comprises an area of the 12th arrondissement situated wouth east of a line defined by the following roads: avenue Saint-Jean-du-Désert (excluded), allée de la Grande-Bastide-Cazaux (excluded), La Bastide-Neuve (excluded), avenue des Caillols (excluded), boulevard des Libérateurs and traverse de La Martine.

Cashel, County Tipperary

Dermod O'Hurley of Limerick, a distinguished student of the university of Louvain in the Duchy of Brabant and professor at Reims in France, was appointed in 1581 by pope Gregory XIII.

Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc

When the university split into two the French-speaking part moved to Ottignies except for the medical faculty, which moved to the Brussels site.

Cyril Holland

When World War I broke out, he was posted back to Europe and took part in the battle for Neuve-Chapelle, where he was killed by a German sniper on 9 May 1915 during the Battle of Festubert.

Gabriel Mudaeus

As a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Louvain, Mudaeus introduced the Erasmian method of research into a field that had been dominated exclusively by tradition; among his pupils were François Baudouin, Jacob Reyvaert (Raevardus), and Matthew Wesenbeck.

Gare de Dijon-Porte-Neuve

Gare de Dijon-Porte-Neuve is located at kilometre post 321.935 on the "Dijon-Ville – Is-sur-Tille Line".

Guillaume Herincx

After receiving his preliminary education at 's-Hertogenbosch he entered the University of Louvain, where he devoted himself to the study of the ancient classics and obtained the degree of doctor of philosophy.

Jean Hessels

(1522–1566) was a Belgian theologian at the University of Louvain.

Jean-Joseph Raepsaet

He studied philosophy and law at the University of Louvain, where he received his degree in law on 17 December 1772.

José Rafael Balmaceda

He completed his studies at the Instituto Nacional and then attended the University of Louvain, where he graduated with a doctorate in Political Science.

Les Pastoureaux

Les Pastoureaux (literally: "The Shepherd Boys"), Petits Chanteurs de Waterloo et de Louvain-la-Neuve (Waterloo & Louvain-la-Neuve Boys' choir) is a Belgian choir of boys and men based in Waterloo, Belgium.

Louis Casartelli

In 1884 he began specialist theology studies at the University of Louvain, in Belgium, where he also specialised in Eastern languages, an interest first acquired - so he said - through a chance encounter with a book in the Manchester Free Library.

Louvain

Université catholique de Louvain, a French-speaking university in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Brussels

Louvain-la-Neuve, a planned city in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Louvain-la-Neuve

After his death in 1983, Hergé's widow, Fanny, led the efforts, undertaken at first by the Hergé Foundation and then by the new Studios Hergé, to catalogue and choose the artwork and elements that would eventually become part of the Museum's exhibitions.

Put under the direction of Raymond Lemaire, Jean-Pierre Blondel and Pierre Laconte, this urbanistic project saw the first students arrive in 1972.

Lukas Runggaldier

His best World Cup finish was 4th, first in a 10 km individual normal hill event at Seefeld (Austria) in January 2011, and in another 10 km race in Chaux-Neuve (France) one year later.

Michel Boudart

He earned his BS and MS from the University of Louvain in 1944 and 1947 respectively and earned his PhD in chemistry at Princeton University in 1950 under the guidance of Hugh Stott Taylor.

Musée Rath

It is located on Place Neuve, in front of the old city walls, next to the Grand Théâtre and near the Conservatoire de Musique.

Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial

Attending the ceremony was a contingent of troops from India to represent the units that fought in France, including Sikhs, Dogras, and Garhwalis.

Nicholas Harpsfield

With the more aggressive religious policies of the English Reformation following the accession of Edward VI in 1547, he left England in 1550 to pursue his studies at the University of Louvain.

Nicholas Quemerford

Repairing to the University of Louvain, he was promoted to the degree of DD on 23 June or October 1575, on which occasion his fellow-countryman, Peter Lombard, who that year was "primus in schola artium", wrote "Carmen Heroicum in Doctoratum Nicolai Quemerfordi".

Rixensart

Rixensart is served by two railway stations (at Rixensart and at Genval), connecting it with Brussels to the North and Louvain-la-Neuve to the South.

Rue Radziwill

The musician François Couperin moved to the rue Neuve des Bons Enfants in 1724, where he stayed the rest of his life.

Théâtre de Rosimond

Built in 1766, it was a wooden building, standing on the other side of Place Neuve, at the corner of the Parc des Bastions and the present-day Rue de la Croix-Rouge, for the entertainment of peacekeeping garrisons from France, Bern and Zurich, stationed in Geneva.

Timothy S. Healy

He earned degrees in English literature and philosophy from Woodstock College and studied theology at the University of Louvain in Belgium and at the University of Valencia in Spain.

University of Leuven

Université catholique de Louvain (1968—), a French-speaking university in Louvain-la-Neuve and Brussels


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