X-Nico

unusual facts about commune in France



Aredius

He founded the monastery of Attanum, and the various French communes called St. Yrieix are named after him.

Bernard Brunhes

In 1905, he found that rocks in an ancient lava flow at Pontfarin in the commune of Cézens (part of the Cantal département) were magnetised in a direction almost opposite to that of the present-day magnetic field.

Château de Miral

The Château de Miral (13th century) is a historical building on the territory of the commune of Bédouès, Lozère département, in the Cevennes mountains of south-central France, about 10 km east of Florac going towards Le Pont-de-Montvert on road "D998".

Édouard Depreux

After serving as a member of the Sceaux commune council in 1935, and as a council member for Seine (1938–1941), he joined the French Resistance in the fight against the Nazi German military occupation, and held a high-ranking position in the SFIO executive committee, being the editor of the illegal newspaper Le Populaire.

Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts

Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in the commune of Villers-Cotterêts, France.

Hay Harvest at Éragny

Hay Harvest at Éragny (French: Fenaison à Éragny) is a 1901 painting by French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro depicting the hay harvest in the French commune of Éragny-sur-Epte.

Ligugé Abbey

Martin's Abbey, Ligugé, is a Benedictine monastery in the present commune of Ligugé in the département of Vienne, and in the diocese of Poitiers, and one of the earliest monastic foundations in France.

Pecq

Le Pecq, Yvelines is a commune in the Yvelines département of the Île-de-France region of France

Pierre de Jaumont

The Pierre de Jaumont (lit. "stone of Jaumont") is an oolitic limestone of the Upper Jurassic, found in Malancourt-la-Montagne, part of the commune of Montois-la-Montagne, in Lorraine, France.


see also

Crans

Crans, Aincommune in the Ain département in France|département

Rieussec

This article is about the commune in France; for the inventor of the chronograph, see Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec.

Semoy

Semoy, Loiret, a commune in France of the Loiret département

Tricot

Tricot, Oise, a commune in France, and also a kind of dance from this region, combining andro and hanter dro dance to a melody with changing rhytmic structure.