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15 unusual facts about Villeneuve


Château de Villefranche

The Château de Villefranche is a castle and stately home in the commune of Villeneuve-lès-Bouloc in the Haute-Garonne département of France.

Enguerrand Quarton

The painting came from Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, just across the Rhône from Avignon, and is sometimes known as the "Villeneuve Pietà".

The painting remains in the monastery Chartreuse du Val de Bénédiction, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, for which it was commissioned by a local clergyman, Jean de Montagny.

Grégoire Demoustier

Grégoire Demoustier (born 26 January 1991 in Villeneuve-d'Ascq) is a French racing driver, who competes in the FIA GT1 World Championship.

Hélène Darroze

Darroze is a fourth generation chef, the previous three having run a family restaurant in Villeneuve-de-Marsan, France.

Joëlle Morosoli

She was also invited to take part in major group exhibitions at such venues as the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.

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.

Maguelone Cathedral

Now a totally isolated structure, it is situated on the once easily defensible peninsula that was the site of the original city of Maguelone, opposite the present Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone, Hérault, France.

Paul Claudel

He was born in Villeneuve-sur-Fère (Aisne), into a family of farmers and government officials.

Pierre-Jean Croset

During the Festival of Avignon in 1985, he exhibited his musical instruments and performed for the Chartreuse of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.

Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

The painting came from Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, just across the Rhône from Avignon, and is sometimes known as the "Villeneuve Pietà".

Roland Giraud

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

Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Michèle Alliot-Marie, born 1946 in Villeneuve-le-Roi, French politician who was Mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz from 1995 to 2002;

Vele di Scampia

Constructions of a similar appearance, but better kept-up, are Villeneuve-Loubet in France, which are visible in the photos of the French city.

Villeneuve-Loubet mass grave

Villeneuve-Loubet mass grave is a grave site near the village of Villeneuve-Loubet, near Nice, in the Maritime Alps region of southern France.


1977 British Grand Prix

Debutant Gilles Villeneuve also took part, along with Patrick Tambay, Jean-Pierre Jarier, Brett Lunger, Patrick Nève, Mikko Kozarowitzky, another debutant Andy Sutcliffe, Guy Edwards, Tony Trimmer, David Purley, Emilio de Villota, Brian Henton, Arturo Merzario and yet another debutant, Brian McGuire.

Anarchopanda

By day he is philosophy professor Julien Villeneuve at Montreal CEGEP Collège de Maisonneuve, with a strong affinity for Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus.

Annie Villeneuve

In the winter of 2010, Villeneuve worked with Stephan Moccio to record both a French and a bilingual version of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics theme song.

Armand Blanquet du Chayla

After his return to France, Chayla was a fierce critic of the tactics of Villeneuve, Decrès and Ganteaume, and resigned in 1803.

BAR 01

However, despite the driving pedrigree of Villeneuve and Zonta, and the technical experience of Reynard Motorsports, the year was a disaster and a major disappointment for the team, especially after Adrian Reynard aimed to secure the pole position and race victory in its first race.

Bill Davis Racing

In preparation for this, the truck was renumbered #27, which Villeneuve used in his 1995 CART and Indy 500 championship season, as a tribute to his father Gilles.

Décrypthon

Talbi (LIFL – Laboratory of Basic Computer Science in Lille, USTL, CNRS, INRIA, Villeneuve d'Ascq).

Fabé Dia

Her personal best times are 7.33 seconds in the 60 metres (indoor), achieved in January 2000 in Eaubonne; 11.54 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Firenze; and 23.02 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in June 1999 in Villeneuve-d'Ascq.

Francine Villeneuve

On November 2, 1991 Villeneuve became the first woman to ride in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, and was the second in any Breeders' Cup race, as American Julie Krone had previously ridden at the Breeders' Cup in both 1988 and 1989.

French Riviera Marathon

The race begins in the Albert I Garden in Nice, and then progresses along the French Riviera, visiting Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Villeneuve-Loubet, Juan-les-Pins and Golfe-Juan before arriving in Cannes and finishing on the Promenade de la Croisette, in front of the Carlton Cannes hotel.

Jean-Paul-Alban Villeneuve-Barcement

Jean-Paul-Alban Villeneuve-Barcement (8 August 1784, Saint-Auban - 8 June 1850, Paris) was a parliamentary leader of the French legitimists.

Julien Vallou de Villeneuve

Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (12 December 1795 in Boissy-Saint-Léger – 4 May 1866 in Paris) was a French painter, lithographer and photographer.

Les Sorinières

It is the location of the Abbaye de Villeneuve, where the tomb of Constance, Duchess of Brittany and her husband Guy of Thouars can be found.

Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art

The Villeneuve d'Ascq Museum of Modern Art is opened in 1983 to house the collection of modern art donated by Geneviève and Jean Masurel to Lille conurbation.

Mirabeau, Vaucluse

It was in existence when a papal bull of Pope Gelasius II in 1199 confirmed Mirabel as a possession of the abbey Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

In 1804, Napoleon ordered Villeneuve, now a Vice Admiral stationed at Toulon, to escape from the British blockade, overcome the British fleet in the English Channel, and allow the planned invasion of Britain to take place.

Richard Goodwin Keats

When Nelson relieved Bickerton and took command of the fleet in the Mediterranean Keats remained with him off Toulon and accompanied the fleet to the West Indies in 1805 in the famous chase of Admiral Villeneuve that culminated in the Battle of Trafalgar.

Williams FW19

The Grove based team locked out the front row yet again in San Marino, and Villeneuve retained his 100% pole position record for 1997.