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unusual facts about Vars, Hautes-Alpes


Vars, Ontario

The second story is that the town was given the name by a retired priest from Embrun, Abbé C. Guillame, in memory of the village of Vars, Hautes-Alpes, in France.


Aigle–Sépey–Diablerets railway

The ASD put forward many railway projects in the early 20th century: a link with Gstaad via the Col du Pillon, connections with Chesières and Villars forming part of a grand Boulevard des Alpes linking Interlaken with Chamonix.

Alpine Rally

The Alpine Rally, also known by its official name Coupe des Alpes, was a rally competition based in Marseille and held from 1932 to 1971.

Ateliers Clérissy

The Ateliers Clérissy were pottery factories specializing in faience operated by members of the Clérissy family in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in Marseille, France and elsewhere.

Baptiste Amar

Baptiste Amar (born 11 November 1979 in Gap, France) is a professional French ice hockey defenceman who participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the France National men's ice hockey team.

Barbitistes obtusus

It is present in France, Italy and Switzerland, from the Basses-Alpes to the Julian Alps and central Apennines, with a small populations in the Apuan Alps.

Camille Sauvageau

Sur le dévelopement de quelques phéosporées ; Sur quelques algues phéosporées de la rade de Villefranche (Alpes-Maritimes) ; Sur quelques algues phéosporées de Guéthary (Basses-Pyrénées), 1929 - On the development of some phaeospores, etc.

Canton of Marseille – Sainte-Marguerite

Canton of Marseille – Sainte-Marguerite is a canton of France, located within the commune of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

Château d'Autet

Château d'Autet is a château located in the Luberon hills of the commune of Viens in the Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Col du Corbier

Col du Corbier is a French Alpine pass located in Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France between the towns of Le Biot and Bonnevaux (Haute-Savoie).

Contes

Contes, Alpes-Maritimes, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in France

Critérium du Dauphiné

The cities that have hosted a start or finish most often are: Grenoble (44 times), Avignon (32 times), Saint-Étienne (23 times), Annecy (22 times), Chambéry (21 times), Gap (21 times), Lyon (19 times), Aix-les-Bains (18 times), Valence (16 times), Briançon (15 times) and Vals-les-Bains (15 times).

École pratique des hautes études

The Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes was established by imperial decree on 31 July 1868 at the initiative of Victor Duruy, then Minister of Education under Emperor Napoleon III.

Escaladieu Abbey

Escaladieu Abbey (French: l'Abbaye de l'Escaladieu) was a Cistercian abbey located in the French commune of Bonnemazon in the Hautes-Pyrénées.

François Jules Pictet de la Rive

He now directed his attention to the fossils of his native country, more especially to those of the Cretaceous and Jurassic strata, and in 1854 he commenced the publication of his great work, Matériaux pour la paléontologie suisse, ou Recueil de monographies sur les fossiles du Jura et des Alpes..., a series of quarto memoirs, of which six were published (1854-1873).

French Senate election, 2008

They were divided in the following way: 1 new Senator each for the Ain, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Hérault, and Guyane départements and one in French Polynesia.

Gap, Hautes-Alpes

Gallia Christiana (Nova, 1715), I, 452–473, Instrumenta, 86–89, (Nova, 1725), III, 1051–1107; Instrumenta, 177–188, 205–8;

Grotte du Vallonnet

The cave of Vallonnet is located on the western slope of Cap Martin, about 800 metres above the Bay of Menton, at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the Alpes-Maritimes Department in France.

Guiers

Saint-Genix-sur-Guiers, a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes, France

Guy Quaden

In 1972, he graduated at the Ecole pratique des hautes études of the Sorbonne (Paris, France), in economic and social sciences.

Henry John Clements

# Catharine, born 3 February 1822 at Ashford Lodge, died 18 September 1830 at Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrénées, France.

Honoré Bonet

Honoré Bonet (c. 1340–c. 1410) was a Provençal Benedictine, the prior of Salon near Embrun.

Jackie Duffin

Sorbonne, History and Philosophy of Science (PhD)
1985 Diplôme de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IV Section, Paris
1983 D.E.A.Paris-I-Sorbonne, France
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Internal medicine
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Hematology
1979 C.S.P.Q. Hématologie
1974 M.D. University of Toronto

James Henry Bennett

Menton was connected by rail to Paris in 1869, which greatly increased the Alpes-Maritimes popularity as a destination for visitors.

La Vallon Airfield

La Vallon Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in France, which is located approximately 6 km north-northeast of Montbrison (Departement de la Loire,Rhone-Alpes); about 385 km south-southeast of Paria.

Les Mées

Les Mées, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

LGV Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Three principal route options were considered, mainly concerning the alignment between Avignon, Aix-en-Provence, Toulon and Draguignan.

Miguel de Serpa Soares

Born in 1967 in Angola, Serpa Soares graduated from the University of Lisbon with a law degree in 1990 and Collège d’Europe, Bruges, in 1992 with a Diplôme de Hautes Etudes Juridiques Européennes.

Montes Alpes

The northwestern third of the range is separated from the remainder of the mountains by the Vallis Alpes, a wide rift valley that extends from a narrow cleft in the Montes Alpes to the northeast, reaching the edge of the Mare Frigoris.

Mornen noir

In 1902, L. Rougier, an ampelographer writing for Pierre Viala and Victor Vermorel's catalog of grape varieties speculated that Mornen noir was indigenous to the western Rhône-Alpes region in the area between the Rhone and upper Loire rivers.

Neffe

Neffes, commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France

Nicolas Vérin

Frédéric Durieux, Hans-Peter Kunz) and teaching several courses of Computer Music (for the Doctorate Program of Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and IRCAM Computer Music Curriculum) as well as participating in the beta-testing of Miller Puckette's Max programming language.

Potentilla delphinensis

It is endemic to France, where it is limited to the southern French Alps (Savoie et Dauphiné: Bauges; Isère; Hautes-Alpes, Col du Lautaret).

Punta Marguareis

Administratively the Marguareis is divided between the Italian region of Piemonte (province: Cuneo) and the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (department: Alpes-Maritimes).

Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus

When consul in 121 BC he campaigned in Gallia Transalpina (in the modern day Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes regions) with Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus against the Gallic tribes of the Allobroges and Arverni whom he defeated.

Rhône-Alpes

This reputation also comes from the fact that two of France's best known wine-growing regions are located near Lyon: the Beaujolais to the North, and the Côtes du Rhône to the South.

Riez Cathedral

Riez Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Riez) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Riez in the département of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in south-eastern France.

Rocher Rond

Rocher Rond lies in the foothills of the Alps, straddling the communes of Lus-la-Croix-Haute (in the department of Drôme) and Agnières-en-Dévoluy (in the department of Hautes-Alpes).

Roland Giberti

Roland Giberti, born in Gémenos (Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region)) in 1951, is a French politician belonging to the Nouveau Centre party.

Saint-Marcellin

Named after the small town of Saint-Marcellin (Isère), it is produced in a geographical area corresponding to part of the former Dauphiné province (now included in the Rhône-Alpes région).

Sisteron Cathedral

Sisteron Cathedral, now the Church of Notre-Dame-des Pommiers (Cathédrale or Concathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Thyrse de Sisteron; Église Notre-Dame des Pommiers, or "Our Lady of the Appletrees") is a Roman Catholic church, formerly a cathedral, and national monument of France, in Sisteron, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

SNCF Class Z 23500

They are mainly used on stopping services around the French Riviera (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), Lille (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) and Lyon (Rhône-Alpes).

Stéphane Diagana

On 21 Jan 2011, Diagana was seriously injured in road accident while he was cycling along a road of the Col de Vence in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in southeast France.

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.

Transport in Rhône-Alpes

Operates from 4:52am to 12:27am, maintained by the Centre de Maintenance de Saint-Priest - Porte des Alpes.

Operates from 4:55am to 12:35am, maintained by the Centre de Maintenance de Saint-Priest - Porte des Alpes.

Saint-Priest - Bel Air (transfers: Bus 50E - 53).

Verel

Verel-Pragondran and Verel-de-Montbel, two communes in the Savoie department, Rhône-Alpes region, France

Vesdre

Its source lies in the High Fens (Hohes Venn, Hautes Fagnes), close to the border with Germany near Monschau.


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