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12 unusual facts about Val-de-Marne


Andrea Bertolacci

Bertolacci started his international experience in Val-de-Marne under-16 international tournament.

Benjamin Raspail

Benjamin Raspail (16 August 1823, Paris – 24 September 1899, Cachan, Seine, now Val-de-Marne), was a painter-engraver and politician of the French Third Republic.

Camille Silvy

Camille Silvy (born Nogent-le-Rotrou, France, 1834; died Saint-Maurice, France, 1910) was a French photographer, primarily active in London.

Charenton

Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, a neighboring commune that was called Charenton-Saint-Maurice until 1842

François Devienne

Devienne died in Charenton-Saint-Maurice near Paris on September 5, 1803.

French Cathedral, Berlin

The French Church was modelled after the destroyed Huguenot temple in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France.

Gendarmenmarkt

The cathedral was modelled after the destroyed Huguenot church in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France.

Georges Poujouly

Georges Poujouly (20 January 1940, Garches, Hauts-de-Seine – 28 October 2000, Villejuif, Val-de-Marne) was a French actor who gained international acclaim as a child for his performance in the award-winning film Forbidden Games.

Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau

-- This article is not titled in English because the creator of the article couldn't find authoritative use of this or any other English name --> is a photography gallery in Gentilly, Paris, created to commemorate the Parisian photographer Robert Doisneau.

Marie-Anne Horthemels

Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels was one of three daughters of the Dutch bookseller Daniel Horthemels (c. 1650-1691) and his wife Marie Cellier (b. 1656), from Saint-Maurice, to the southeast of Paris.

Mattia Destro

Destro made his debut for the Italy under-16 team in theinternational Val-de-Marne tournament.

Princes of Wagram

After Louis Alexandre Berthier, the inheritors of the dual title (duc de Valengin) are most often referred to as "Prince de Wagram." Each of them lived at Château de Grosbois, a large estate in Boissy-Saint-Léger, Val-de-Marne, southeast of Paris.


524th Bombardment Squadron

Specific targets included a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, an aircraft assembly plant in Brunswick, ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt and Leipzig, synthetic oil refineries at Merseburg and Gelsenkirchen, marshalling yards at Hamm and Reims and airfields in Mesnil au Val and Berlin.

Arville

Arville, Seine-et-Marne, a commune of the Seine-et-Marne département, in France

Automated guideway transit

The VAL (Véhicule Automatique Léger) system in Lille, France, opened in 1983, is often cited as the first AGT installed to serve an existing urban area.

Benjamin Boukpeti

Born in Lagny-sur-Marne, France to a French mother, he holds dual Togolese-French citizenship and chose to represent Togo, the country of his father, in Olympic competition.

Berwinne

From there the Berwinne river flows, generally spoken, in northwestern direction, through places like Val-Dieu Abbey, Dalhem and Moelingen, before joining the Meuse between Visé and the Dutch border.

Borgo Val di Taro

James Gandolfini Sr., father of Italian-American actor James Gandolfini Jr., was born in Borgo Val di Taro.

Borvo

Many of the sites where offerings to Borvo have been found are in Gaul: inscriptions to him have been found in Drôme at Aix-en-Diois, Bouches-du-Rhône at Aix-en-Provence, Gers at Auch, Allier at Bourbon-l'Archambault, Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Saône-et-Loire at Bourbon-Lancy, in Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Haute-Marne at Bourbonne-les-Bains and in Nièvre at Entrains-sur-Nohain.

Cameron King

In December 2009 he won the Val Lembit Memorial Trophy for the most outstanding sportsman in NSW, awarded by the Combined High Schools, joining previous winners such as olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and first grade rugby league player Blake Green.

Capital Disney

The final line up of presenters at closure was Adam Morris, known on air as The General, James Beckingham, Matt James, Val Mellon, Leigh Purves, Nigel Mitchell, Andrew Rendle, known as Radio Rendle, Adam O'Neill, Saffron Oddy and Sophie Bruce.

Cathy Dingman

Unfortunately for BB, Val was tossed twice in the contest, and Triple H was there to make sure that she disrobed as he blocked the crowd's view of BB, making it so that he was the only person to see her topless.

Chappe et Gessalin

Chappe et Gessalin (CG) was a French automobile maker founded in 1946 which commenced manufacturing complete cars in Brie-Comte-Robert, Seine-et Marne in 1957.

Charenton

Charenton-le-Pont, in the Val-de-Marne département, a commune which has a common border with Paris

Château de Champs-sur-Marne

The Château de Champs, at Champs-sur-Marne was built in its present form for the treasurer Charles Renouard de la Touane in 1699 by Pierre Bullet, architecte du roi.

Châtres, Seine-et-Marne

Châtres is documented as the place where Saint Corbinian was born circa 670 and where he maintained a hermitage for fourteen years.

Claude Duval

Du Val was born in Domfront, Orne, Normandy in 1643 to a noble family stripped of title and land.

Del Dingle

Settling into life in Emmerdale, Del – a talented seamstress – helped Val and Eric start their soft furnishings business and became an integral part of the company.

Earl J. Atkisson

This regiment arrived in France on March 10, 1918 and eventually participated in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihel, and Meuse-Argonne operations.

FAVS Stradivari

The FAVS Stradivari is a bullpup carbine series manufactured by FAVS - Fabbrica d'Armi Val di Susa S.N.C. (Susa Valley Arms Factory, Ltd.) located in the town of Villar Focchiardo, and owned by the expert gunmaker Edi Guglielminotti.

Gérard Solvès

Gérard Solvès (born Lagny-sur-Marne, Paris, 7 April 1968) is a French tennis player, coach and director of the Tennis Club de Paris.

Henri Zisly

In 1902, he was one of the main initiators, alongside Georges Butaud and Sophie Zaïkowska, of the cooperative Colonie de Vaux established in Essômes-sur-Marne, in l'Aisne.

Jacques Vallée

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.

Jean Houymet

Jean Houymet or Wuillemet (1634? - November 18, 1687), son and heir of Nicolas and Pérette Nicayse, originated from Vrigny or Virginy, archdiocese of Reims located in the province of Champagne department of Marne in France.

Just de Noailles

# Charles Antonin (March 13, 1810 – August 24, 1852 – Chateau du Val (Seine-et-Marne)), styled comte de Noailles, commander of the Légion d'honneur, married in Paris, 25 1849, Anne Marie Elena Cosvelt;

Karl Müllenhoff

He was born at Marne, Holstein, and after studying at Kiel, Leipzig, and Berlin, was professor at Kiel (1846–58) and at Berlin (1858-84).

Melezzo Orientale

To begin with the river runs south forming the deep valley of Arvogno (a locality within the commune of Toceno); near Santa Maria Maggiore (VB) the course turns east and takes it through the gentler slopes of the high plain which forms the central section of the Val Vigezzo; at Malesco it is joined by the Loana.

Monte Rosa Massif

Monte Rosa itself lies near the intersection of a great north and south ridge, extending from the Balfrin through the Mischabelhörner, and the highest peaks of the mountain itself, to the Vincent Pyramide, and thence through the range that bounds the Val de Lys, nearly to Ivrea, with the transverse range lying between the Dent d'Herens and the Pizzo Bianco near Macugnaga.

Nicholas Bodington

SFHQ sent him back to France under the codename Jean in July 1944 to reactivate the PROFESSOR network in the Marne as the PEDLAR network, and to assist the French Resistance.

Orbigny

Orbigny-au-Mont, a commune in the Haute-Marne department in France

Pas de Morgins

It is located at the top of the Val de Morgins, which turns off the Val d'Illiez at Troistorrents.

Paul Genevay

Paul Genevay (born 21 January 1939 in Lagny-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne) is a former French athlete, who won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metre relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Quebec Route 307

On June 23, 2010, part of the highway was closed between Val-des-Bois and Bowman, due to a partial bridge collapse caused by a 5.0 magnitude earthquake.

Quentin Roosevelt

On July 14, 2008 on the 90th anniversary of Quentin's death, the villages of Saints, Mauperthuis and Touquin held a commemoration of Quentin Roosevelt.

Rhuilles

Rhuilles is a frazione of the Italian comune of Cesana Torinese (province of Turin), located at 1,675 metres above sea level in the Val Thuras (upper Val di Susa).

Saint Bessus

On August 10 of every year, a festival and pilgrimage is held every year in the mountains of Gran Paradiso National Park (Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso), in the Val Soana.

SC Tinqueux

They are based in the commune of Tinqueux, located in the region of Champagne-Ardenne in the Marne department and are currently playing in the Championnat de France Amateurs 2 Group B, the fifth tier of the French football league system, after achieving promotion from the Division d'Honneur during the 2008–09 season.

Special Project

Darryl discovers warehouse worker Val (Ameenah Kaplan) has knitted him a beanie.

Svaðilfari

In chapter 42 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells a story set "right at the beginning of the gods' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall" about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.

US Sénart-Moissy

US Sénart-Moissy is a French football club based in Moissy-Cramayel (Seine-et-Marne) and member of the Championnat de France amateur - Group D.

VAL

Variable Assembly Language, a computer-based control system and language designed specifically for use with Unimation Inc. industrial robots

Val Camonica witch trials

During the first months of 1518, inquisitors were stationed in the parishes of the Val Camonica; Don Bernardino de Grossis in Pisogne, Don James de Gablani in Rogno, Don Valerio de Boni in Breno, Don Donato de Savallo in Cemmo and Don Battista Capurione in Edolo, all under the bishop Inquisitor Peter Durante, who presided at the central court of the Inquisition at Cemmo.

Val Royal

Scheduled to go to Hong Kong's Sha Tin Racecourse to run in the Hong Kong Mile Val Royal developed a quarter crack that saw him sidelined him until March 2 of 2002 when he returned to Santa Anita and finished fourth in the Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap.

Valliscaulian Order

The tomb of the Dukes of Burgundy, now removed to Dijon, was originally erected at Val-des-Choux; in bas-reliefs of a blind arcading of its base are the only representations of the monks of Val-de-Choux.

Villarceau

Domaine of Villarceaux, a château, water garden, and park in the commune of Chaussy in the Val d'Oise Department of France

Willi Oueifio

Oueifio learned during 1987 and 1993 at the Ecole Grande Prairie in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne.

Yves Manglou

During this same period Manglou also obtained a maîtrise in Human Sciences at the University of Paris, Val-de-Marne - a foreshadowing of experienced-based learning, which was later formalized in France as Validation des Acquis de l'Experience.