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unusual facts about Vassy, Yonne


Isaac Jacquelot

He was born in Vassy in Champagne where his father was a Huguenot pastor; he took over his father's position, but left France in 1685 on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.


August von Platen-Hallermünde

With them he took part in the short campaign in France of 1815, being in bivouac for several months near Mannheim and in the department of the Yonne.

Augustin Marlorat

After the massacre at Vassy on March 1, 1562, the Protestants of Rouen planned to seize their city.

Château de Tanlay

The Château de Tanlay at Tanlay (Yonne) is a French château built in Burgundy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, famous for its beauty and the setting.

Château de Vallery

The Early Renaissance French Château de Vallery, in Vallery, in the département of Yonne in the Burgundy region of France, was built in 1548 for Jacques d'Albon de Saint-André, marquis de Fronsac, a court favorite of Henri II and maréchal de France.

De Vesci

de Vesci (Vescy, Vecey, Vesey, Vessey, Veasie, Veazey and Veasey) is the surname of an old Norman noble family originating from Vassy, Calvados.

Dixmont

Dixmont, Yonne, a commune of the Yonne département, in France

Earl of Northumberland

The castle had been founded in the late 11th century by Ivo de Vesci, a Norman nobleman from Vassy, Calvados in Normandy.

Franz Böhme

Ten days later, Böhme was given control of that Corps, when Speck was killed near Pont-sur-Yonne in France.

Harold A. Garman

On that day, near Montereau, France, he participated in the evacuation of wounded soldiers across the Seine river.

Henri Frager

He was sent as head of the DONKEYMAN network, with orders to develop Resistance groups in the Yonne and on the Côte d'Azur.

Hermann Ritter von Speck

Hermann Ritter von Speck was killed on 15 June 1940 in Pont-sur-Yonne, France.

Jean-Marie Defrance

Jean-Marie Defrance was born on 21 September 1771 at Vassy, in the Champagne province and died 6 July 1855.

Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Jean-Paul Rappeneau (born 8 April 1932 at Auxerre, Yonne) is a French film director and screenwriter.

John Blackett

He was noted for his regular and punctual attendance to Parliament, but constant hard work wore him out and he retired in 1856, moving to continental Europe to try and regain some energy, dying at Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, France.

John the Fearless

On the grounds that peace was not sufficiently assured by the Pouilly meeting, a fresh interview was proposed by the Dauphin to take place on 10 September 1419 on the bridge at Montereau.

Louis Jacques Thénard

From 1827 to 1830 he represented the département of Yonne in the chamber of deputies, and as vice-president of the conseil superieur de l'instruction publique, he exercised a great influence on scientific education in France.

Margaret III, Countess of Flanders

John the Fearless (1371–1419, murdered at Montereau), her eldest son and successor in Flanders, Artois and Burgundy

Montereau-Fault-Yonne

John the Fearless was killed on the town's bridge in September, 1419 by Tanneguy du Chastel and the sire de Barbazan, during an interview with the dauphin (who became in 1422 Charles VII).

Pimelles

During World War II, La Grange-Aux-Moines, a dependency of Pimelles, served as one of the headquarters of an element of the Yonne Resistance Movement.

Robert le Maçon

He was by the dauphin's side when John the Fearless was murdered at the bridge of Montereau on 10 September 1419.

Roland Giraud

He lost his daughter Géraldine, an actress herself, murdered when she was just thirty-six, in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne.

Saint-Bris

Saint-Bris-le-Vineux, a village and commune in the Yonne department in France

Saint-Florentin

Saint-Florentin, Yonne, in the Yonne département, chief town of the canton of Saint-Florentin

Thury, Yonne

Secondary (Jurassic – 205 to 140 million years) "the separation of South America and Africa has created a body of water hot for producing organic life – more compact limestone – and the career Aubigny (Yonne) comprises warm sea coral limestone."

Vassy

Wassy, a commune in the Haute-Marne département, France

Vassy, Calvados, a commune in the Calvados département, France

Vauluisant Abbey

near Courgenay in the canton of Villeneuve-l'Archevêque, Yonne, France, is a Cistercian abbey founded in 1127 by a group of monks from the abbey of Preuilly (Seine-et-Marne) who came to settle between the forest of Othe and the forest of Lancy, an area near the borders of Ile-de-France, Champagne and Burgundy that had come to be far from human habitation.

Viola cryana

Viola cryana, the Cry Violet, also known as Cry Pansy, is an extinct plant species from the violet genus Viola which was endemic to the French Department Yonne.


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