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unusual facts about dauphin, Louis ''le Grand Dauphin''



Ainay

On 2 August that year the dauphin Francis played at a jeu de paume court "prés d'Ainay" and, getting overheated, drank a glass of iced water which proved fatal (he died a few days later at Tournon, aged 18).

Alexandre Bontemps

Alexandre succeeded him on his death in 1659, dying in office in 1701, by which time he was a count and marquis, holding several key offices controlling both the palaces and towns of Versailles and Marly, the Swiss Guard who guarded the King and his palaces, and the household of the Dauphin.

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

Louis "Lepke" Buchalter had Orgen assassinated in 1927 in order to take over his operations.

Ambel, Isère

Peter had, by concession from the Dauphin, high, middle, and low jurisdiction rights over Ambel.

Ancient Diocese of Mirepoix

Jean-François Boyer 1730–1736, preceptor to the Dauphin, father of Louis XVI (1730-1736)

Antoine Halley

His collection of Poems is dedicated to the Duke of Montausier, the tutor of the dauphin and governor of Normandy.

Auld Alliance

France was on the brink of surrendering to the forces of Henry V and in 1418 the Dauphin, Charles VII, called on his Scottish allies for help.

Benjamin Harris Babbidge

His funeral left from his residence in Dauphin Terrace, Highgate Hill and he was buried in Toowong Cemetery.

British International Helicopters

It operates from Newquay using two Eurocopter AS 365N2 Dauphin helicopters on behalf of the Royal Navy Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) based at HMS Drake in HMNB Devonport.

Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier

Montausier received from Louis XIV the order of the Saint Esprit, the government of Normandy, a dukedom, and in 1668 the office of governor of the dauphin, Louis le Grand Dauphin (1661-1711).

Christian Whitmer

Born in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, Whitmer moved with his parents to New York in 1809.

Dauphin Island, Alabama

The phrase, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead," was spoken by U. S. Admiral David Farragut just a few hundred yards from Dauphin Island's shore.

Division No. 17, Manitoba

The division is geographically centred on the city of Dauphin and Dauphin Lake, and contains most of Riding Mountain National Park.

Elizabeth Bracco

She has also appeared in a number of other films, including Mystery Train, Louis & Frank, Trees Lounge, and The Impostors.

Entrevaux

The remaining population staged an uprising, cutting the throat of the governor, and offered the town to the French Dauphin, King François I.

Eurocopter EC155

The first EC155 helicopter, a modified Dauphin airframe, made its maiden flight at Marignane on 17 June 1997 and the first pre-production EC155 B flew on 11 March 1998.

Francis III, Duke of Brittany

After playing a round of tennis at a jeu de paume court "prés d'Ainay", the Dauphin asked for a cup of water, which was brought to him by his secretary, Count Montecuccoli.

Francis, Dauphin of France

Francis II of France, Dauphin of France in 1544–1560, son and heir of Henry II of France

Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Dauphin of France in 1518–1536, son and heir of Francis I of France

Frank Scarabino

He was also charged with the murder of Fred Weiss, as well as conspiracy to the attempted murders of Daniel Annunziatta, Gaetano "Corky" Vastola and Louis "Fat Lou" LaRasso.

Guigues I of Albon

Guigues I known as "Dauphin" (born c. 1000, died in 1070 at Cluny), was Count of Oisans, Grésivaudan, and Briançonnais.

Hubert Schardin

He also was the director of the German-French Research Institute (ISL) in Saint-Louis (France) and founder and director of the Fraunhofer Society for High-Speed Dynamics - Ernst-Mach-Institut (EMI) - in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Le Carillon de Vendôme

After the signing of the Treaty of Troyes during the Hundred Years' War, the Dauphin was left in possession of the cities of Orléans, Beaugency, Cléry, Vendôme, and Bourges.

Louis III de La Trémoille

Louis accompanied the dauphin on a voyage to Perpignan in 1542, served in the war against the English in Picardy and was one of the four barons given as a hostage of the Holy Ampoule at the consecration of Henry II, and one of the hostages of the peace treaty concluded in 1542 between France and England.

Louis, Grand Dauphin

The Dauphin employed Jules Hardouin Mansart and the office of the Bâtiments du Roi, but most particularly his long-term "house designer" Jean Bérain, head of the Menus Plaisirs, to provide new decors.

The Delphin Classics was a large edition of the Latin classics, edited in the 1670s for Louis (Delphin is the adjective derived from dauphin) Thirty-nine scholars contributed to the series, which was edited by Pierre Huet, with assistance from several co-editors including Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet and Anne Dacier.

Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon

Her older half-brother, the Dauphin, to whom she was close, allowed the couple to meet at his country estate at Meudon away from her husband and the court.

Magdeleine-Marie Desgarcins

Magdeleine-Marie Desgarcins (1769 at Mont-Dauphin (Hautes Alpes) – 27 October 1797 in Paris) was a French actress.

Manitoba Highway 5

Along the way it passes through the communities of Cartwright, Glenboro, Carberry, Neepawa, McCreary, Ste. Rose Du Lac, Grandview, Gilbert Plains and the City of Dauphin, Manitoba (although a bypass via Highway 5A is available).

Marc Dauphin

Major Dauphin was the basis for the character of Colonel Xavier Marks in the TV series Combat Hospital.

Maryland Terrapins men's basketball

The team also had its first individual star in Louis "Bosey" Berger who was named to All-America teams both seasons.

Mont-Dauphin

At the confluence of Durance and Guil rivers, overlooking the impressive canyon of the latter flowing down from Queyras valley, Mont-Dauphin is one of the many places fortified by Vauban in the second half of the 17th century.

Montereau-Fault-Yonne

John the Fearless was killed on the town's bridge in September, 1419 by Tanneguy du Chastel and the sire de Barbazan, during an interview with the dauphin (who became in 1422 Charles VII).

Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux

A student of Delorme and Gros, he designed a large number of medals, largely referring to public events, such as the death of Louis XV, the coronation of Louis XVI, the birth of the Dauphin, the invention of the hot air balloon by the Montgolfier brothers, the voyage of Lapeyrouse, the Federation of the Départements of France, the Abolition of Privileges, and Moreau's crossing of the Rhine in year VIII.

Old Shell Road

McGill-Toolen Catholic High School, located in the blocks that are bounded by Catherine, Old Shell and Lafayette and in the second block by Lafayette, Old Shell, Dauphin and Blacklawn.

Rambaud

Agathe de Rambaud (1764–1853), French nurse in charge of the Dauphin from 1785 to 1792

Rausch Gap, Pennsylvania

In 1854, the Dauphin and Susquehanna was extended eastward to Pine Grove and Auburn, as part of a planned railroad to Allentown.

Regency Government of England 1422–37

However, in the face of a resurgent French army led by Joan of Arc, the crowning of the Dauphin as Charles VII in 1429, it became clear that the French were gaining the upper hand and slowly expelling the English from their country.

Riding Mountain National Park

The nearest commercial airports are at Dauphin and Brandon, and the nearest International Airport is located in Winnipeg.

Robert le Coq

At the meeting of the estates which opened in Paris in October 1356 le Coq played a leading role and was one of the most outspoken of the orators, especially when petitions were presented to the dauphin Charles, denouncing the bad government of the realm and demanding the banishment of the royal councillors.

Robert le Maçon

He was by the dauphin's side when John the Fearless was murdered at the bridge of Montereau on 10 September 1419.

Roman Bohnen

He also played Durand Laxart, Joan's uncle, who takes her to see the Dauphin of France, in the Ingrid Bergman Joan of Arc (1948).

Saint Yon

Gamier de Saint Yon was chevin of Paris in 1413 and 1419; Jean de Saint Yon, his brother, was valet de chambre of the dauphin Louis, son of King Charles VI of France.

Siege of Orléans

It was on the very day of the Battle of the Herrings that a young French peasant girl, Joan of Arc, was meeting with Robert de Baudricourt, the Dauphinois captain of Vaucouleurs, trying to explain to the sceptical captain her divinely-ordained mission to rescue the Dauphin Charles and deliver him to his royal coronation at Rheims.

The Triumph of St. Joan

Flashbacks include her meeting with the Dauphin the day before the Siege of Orléans, his coronation at Rheims, the breach in the relationship between Charles and Joan, and Cauchon's condemning of her at her trial.

Vanora Bennett

She also studied Russian at Voronezh State University in the former Soviet Union and at Le Centre d'Études Russes du Potager du Dauphin, a centre established by White Russian emigres outside Paris, at Meudon.

Wilbert James Tinkler

He was replaced as party president by S.S. Hunt of Dauphin in late June 1953, but appears to have regained this title later in the decade.

William of Auvergne

William VII the Young of Auvergne (1143 – c. 1155) (also called William IV or VIII) (remained Count-Dauphin of Auvergne)


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