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4 unusual facts about Vitry-sur-Seine


Maguy Nestoret

Maguy Nestoret (born July 28 1969 in Vitry-sur-Seine, France) is a French athlete who specialises in the 200 meters.

Meriem Wangari

In April 2008 she ran the half marathon at the Humarathon in Vitry-sur-Seine and was third in an all-Kenyan sweep of the podium.

Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne

The Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, nicknamed MAC/VAL, is a museum of contemporary art located in the Place de la Libération in Vitry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, a suburb of Paris, France.

Sohane Benziane

On October 4, 2002 in Vitry-sur-Seine, South of Paris, 17 year old Sohane Benziane, the daughter of Kabyle immigrants, was burned alive in front of her friends in a cellar by her former boyfriend, a local caid (gang leader).


Adolf Friedrich von Reinhard

He won first prize from the Prussian Academy of Sciences for La Système de Mr. Pope sur la perfection du monde comparé à celui de Mr. Leibniz (1755), a critique of the philosophy of Alexander Pope, Leibniz and Christian Wolff.

Antenor Patiño

Doña María Isabel Patiño y Borbón (Paris, 3 June 1936 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, 15 May 1954) who had a short and tragic marriage with Sir James Goldsmith, by whom she had an only daughter.

Arville

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

ASELSAN

After exportation of such a system to Oman in 2008 for the Qurayyat-Sur motorway, Aselsan won in 2010 a tender worth 5.4 million to develop an electronic toll collection system and implement at 51 toll booths in Poland.

Beurre d'Isigny

Beurre d'Isigny is a type of cow's milk butter made in the Veys Bay area and the valleys of the rivers running into it, comprising several French communes surrounding Isigny-sur-Mer and straddling the Manche and Calvados departments of northern France.

Blossoming Chestnut Branches

Blossoming Chestnut Branches was painted by Vincent van Gogh during the artist's Auvers-sur-Oise period in May 1890, the final year of his life.

Brico Dépôt

Brico Dépôt is a French chain of DIY and Home Improvement stores, headquartered in Longpont-sur-Orge.

Canal de Tancarville

The Canal de Tancarville is a 25 km waterway in France connecting the English Channel at Le Havre to the Seine at Tancarville.

Castillon-sur-Agen

Castillion-sur-Agen was a medieval castle in the commune of Bon-Encontre, near Agen in Aquitaine, France.

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.

Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Having secured Longwy and Verdun without serious resistance, he turned back after a mere skirmish in Valmy, and evacuated France.

Château d'Arc-en-Barrois

The Arc-en-Barrois area belonged in 1622 to Nicolas de L'Hospital, Duke of Vitry; it was bought in 1679 from his son by Count Morstein who ceded it in 1693 to Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, whose son Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, inherited the estate.

CroisiEurope

In France, CroisiEurope sail on the Seine, the Rhône, the Saône, the Gironde, the Meuse, and the Rhine; in Italy, on the Po; in Spain, on the Guadalquivir; in Portugal, on the Guadiana and the Douro; in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, on the Rhine; in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Romania, on the Danube; and in Germany, on the Havel and the Oder.

Emilio Boggio

He returned to France in 1920 and soon thereafter died on 6 July 1920 at Auvers-sur-Oise in France.

Exide

In 1996 Exide acquired the French/Italian battery corporation CEAC, Clichy.

Fabien Chéreau

Fabien Chéreau (born 17 September 1980 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France) is a French Research Engineer and computer programmer best known for authoring the planetarium software Stellarium, a free, open source astronomy software package which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.

Gare d'Épinay-sur-Seine

The Gare d'Épinay-sur-Seine (Épinay-sur-Seine station) is one of the two railway stations in the commune of Épinay-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis department, France (the other being the Gare d'Épinay-Villetaneuse).

Gare de Dijon-Porte-Neuve

Gare de Dijon-Porte-Neuve is located at kilometre post 321.935 on the "Dijon-Ville – Is-sur-Tille Line".

GDF Suez

With the stated aim of reaching a total production capacity of 10GW by 2013, three gas-fired thermal power plants at Fos-sur-Mer, Montoir-de-Bretagne and Saint-Brieuc are currently in various stages of development, as is a solar panel project in Curbans.

Georges Cipriani

Arrested with his accomplices Jean-Marc Rouillan, Joëlle Aubron and Nathalie Ménigonin on 21 February 1987 on a farm in Vitry-aux-Loges (Loiret), Cipriani was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the assassinations of Engineer General René Audran and Georges Besse.

Geraldine of Albania

King Zog I died in Hauts-de-Seine, France, in 1961 and their son, Crown Prince Leka, was proclaimed King Leka I by the royalist government in exile.

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.

Gilles de Roye

He was afterwards professor of theology in Paris and abbot of the monastery of Royaumont at Asnières-sur-Oise, retiring about 1458 to the convent of Notre Dame des Dunes (Ten Duinen) at Koksijde, near Veurne, and devoting his time to study.

Guynemer of Boulogne

Guynemer or Guinemerz was a Boulognese pirate who played a role in the First Crusade.

Henri de Boulainvilliers

In 1683 Boulainvilliers wrote " l'Idée d'un Système Géneral de la Nature" based on his reading of Jan Baptist van Helmont and Robert Boyle, followed by "Archidoxes de Paracelsus, avec une préface sur les principes de l'art chimique".

Jean de Pourtales

Jean de Pourtales (born August 19, 1965) is a French racing driver from Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Jean Louis Barthélemy O'Donnell

He fell from favour under the ultra-Royalist administration of the Jean-Baptiste, comte de Villèle, the Prime Minister of France from 1821–1828, and during which time largely he concentrated on local government, being Maire (Mayor) of Villiers-sur-Orge for seven years from 1820 to 1826, and was one of the founders of the l'Ecole d'enseignement mutuel (primary school) in Montlhéry, where using his own resources, he had several young pupils educated.

Jean-Louis Jaley

Jean-Louis Nicolas Jaley (born in Paris in 1802, died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1866) was a French sculptor.

Jedem das Seine

Several modern advertising campaigns in the German language, including ads for Nokia, REWE grocery stores, Burger King, and Merkur Bank have been marred by controversy after using the phrase Jedem das Seine or Jedem den Seinen.

Joëlle Aubron

Arrested with her comrades Jean-Marc Rouillan, Nathalie Ménigon and Georges Cipriani on 21 February 1987 on a farm in Vitry-aux-Loges (Loiret), she was sentenced in 1989 and 1994 to life in prison, with a minimum of 18 years.

Louis Poterat

His first great successes dated to the end of the 1930s, and were his adaptations of foreign-language songs into French (J'attendrai, to music by the Italian composer Dino Olivieri, in 1938, sung by Rina Ketty ; Sur les quais du vieux Paris, to music by the German composer Ralph Erwin, the first success of the singer Lucienne Delyle, in 1939).

Lucien Gagnon

He was among the first to take part in the agitation in Canada against the British government, was present at the assembly of the six confederate counties at St. Charles, 23 October 1837, and left the meeting convinced that insurrection was the only remedy for Canadian grievances.

Marcel Gromaire

Marcel Gromaire, whose father was an educator in Paris, was born in Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France.

Maria Domenica Mazzarello

The next morning, more out of a concern for worrying her already exhausted companions, she was able to get up, see the missionaries off, and then journey with her remaining Sisters to their house and orphanage in St. Cyr.

Metro San Joaquín

It is located in the Colonia Pencil Sur neighnorhood and nearby points of interest include the Panteón Francés.

Nogent-sur-Vernisson

The main employer in the town is the CIMRG plant which manufactures components for Renault cars and employs some 800 people.

NOV Fm

In 2001, a temporary radio station broadcast in the canton of Beauvoir-sur-Mer.

One Ton Cup

It had to be raced on the Seine River at Meulan, home of the CVP or in Cowes if owned by a foreigner1.

Paul Nougé

André Souris, Paul Nougé et ses complices in "Entretiens sur le surréalisme", under the direction of Ferdinand Alquié, Mouton, Paris-La Haye, 1968.

Plœuc-sur-Lié

The Count de La Rivière was the ancestor of Lafayette, who sold his estates at Ploeuc to cover the expenses which fell on him as a result of the American War of Independence.

Port of Deauville

The large town's position on the estuary of the River Touques was ideal for the establishment of a constructed harbour to supplement the fishing docks of Trouville-sur-Mer.

Prince Umberto of Savoy-Aosta

Umberto was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the first child and son of Prince Aimone, Duke of Apulia and his wife, the former Princess Olga of Greece.

Puy d'Arras

Other puys under her patronage were founded at Amiens, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Caen, Évreux, and Rouen.

The Rock Pool

The novel is set in "Trou-sur-mer" (Hole on the Sea), which is said to based on Cagnes-sur-Mer between Cannes and Nice.

Tour du Crédit Lyonnais

In his song "Lyon Presqu'île" on the album The Superb, Benjamin Biolay (born in Villefranche-sur-Saone) includes "round in pen" in his view of the main monuments of the city.

Treasure of Pouan

The grave was accidentally uncovered in 1842 by a labourer at Pouan-les-Vallées (Aube), a French village in the canton of Arcis-sur-Aube on the south bank of the Aube River.

Treatise of the Three Impostors

According to historian Silvia Berti, the book was originally published as La Vie et L'Esprit de Spinosa (The Life and Spirit of Spinoza),containing both a biography of Benedict Spinoza and the anti-religious essay, and was later republished under the title Traité sur les trois imposteurs.

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.

View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Rémy

The painting was originally thought to be a view of the church at Labbeville, near Auvers, where he moved following his stay at the asylum, but it is now accepted to be a view of the asylum and church at Saint-Rémy.

Yves Duteil

He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), in 24 July 1949 and is the third child to be born in the family.


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