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9 unusual facts about Verneuil


Carlos Fuentes Lemus

He attended the Ecole des Roches in Verneuil-sur-Avre, France, in academic year 1985-86, along with his sister, Natasha Fuentes.

Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath

Next year he was fighting for Henry in France, and held Verneuil against Louis VII for a month; but at the end of that time the town was forced to capitulate.

Jean de La Ville de Mirmont

Jean de La Ville de Mirmont (2 December 1886 – 28 November 1914) was a French poet who died at the age of 27 defending his country during World War I, at Verneuil.

John VIII, Count of Harcourt

Jean VIII of Harcourt (9 April 1396 - 17 August 1424, Verneuil) was a count of Aumale.

Notre-Dame International High School

Notre-Dame International High School (NDIHS), the international program of the French school Notre-Dame Les Oiseaux, is a private international boarding and day school located in Verneuil-sur-Seine, a residential area of the West of Paris, France.

Verneuil-sur-Seine is located on the River Seine and offers a rich natural environment, with parks, gardens, forest, rivers and lakes.

Notre-Dame International High School is a private bilingual school located in the residential town of Verneuil-sur-Seine, in the West of Paris, 35 minutes away from Paris by train.

Pascal Quignard

Pascal Quignard (born April 23, 1948) is a French writer born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure.

Pierre II, Count of Alençon

# Catherine (1380, Verneuil – 25 June 1462, Paris), married 1411 in Alençon Peter d'Évreux, Infante of Navarre and Count of Mortain (1366–1412), married 1 October 1413 in Paris Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (1365–1447)


Graham Dorey

Later he was educated Kingswood Sch Bath, University of Bristol, and then Ecole des Roches Verneuil in Caen in 1959, he was made an Advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey 1960.

Maurice Archambaud

He won Paris-Soissons and Paris-Verneuil as an amateur in 1931 and turned professional the following year for Alcyon, one of the top teams in France.

Verneuil process

Its most significant setback came in 1917, when Jan Czochralski introduced the Czochralski process, which has found numerous applications in the semiconductor industry, where a much higher quality of crystals is required than the Verneuil process can produce.

In 1947, the Linde Air Products division of Union Carbide pioneered the use of the Verneuil process for creating such star sapphires, until production was discontinued in 1974 due to overseas competition.


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