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unusual facts about bourdon


Françoise Blin de Bourdon

When Françoise was nineteen, she left Gezaincourt for Bourdon, as her parents wished her to make her debut into society.


Borden, Kent

It may also stem from the settlement there of the de Bourdon (now Borden) family which came from Bourdonnay, in Normandy, France with William the Conqueror in 1066.

Built from Scratch

They all appear in the video along with Linkin Park members Rob Bourdon and Phoenix on drums and bass, with Wayne Static from Static-X on guitar.

Fauxbourdon

Fauxbourdon (also Fauxbordon, and also commonly two words: Faux bourdon or Faulx bourdon) – French for false bass – is a technique of musical harmonisation used in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, particularly by composers of the Burgundian School.

François Louis Bourdon

In the Council of Five Hundred under the French Directory, Bourdon belonged to the party of Clichyens, composed of crypto-Royalists, against whom the directors used the 18 Fructidor coup.

Leonardo de Mango

De Mango was among the artists who, at the initiative of Alexander Vallaury, a teacher in the architecture department of the School of Fine Arts, and Regis Delbeuf, manager of the Istanbul daily Le Stamboul, organized the first painting and sculpture exhibition at Beyoğlu in 1901, dubbed the ‘Pera Exhibitions in the Passage Oriental’, an arcade owned by the French merchant Bourdon.

Marc Antoine Bourdon de Vatry

Marc-Antoine Bourdon Vatry (born 24 November 1761 Longny-au-Perche - 22 April 1828 Paris, brother of Louis-François Bourdon, was a French Naval Minister.

Michel Bourdon

As vice-president of the Montreal council of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) in 1970, Bourdon endorsed Quebec independence and accused Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau of having imposed the War Measures Act on Quebec during the FLQ Crisis to weaken the constitutional Parti Québécois rather than the radical Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) paramilitary group.

Sylvia Bourdon

Bourdon later sued the European Union over its decision to call the single currency the Euro instead of the Ecu, the name inscribed in the Maastricht treaty.


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