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2 unusual facts about maréchal


Charles Le Gobien

The first eight series were by Le Gobien, the latter ones by Fathers Du Halde, Patouillet, Geoffroy, and Maréchal.

Konstanty Ludwik Plater

Konstanty Ludwik Plater (born 1722 – died 31 March 1778 in Krāslava), was Castellan of Troki from 1770, voivode of Mstislavl from 1758 to 1770, Castellan of Polotsk from 1754 to 1758, the great Lithuanian Magnus Scriptor from 1746 to 1754, Maréchal of the Lithuanian Tribunal in 1754, and Starosta of Livonia and Dyneburg.


Antoine III de Gramont

His memoirs („Mémoires du maréchal de Gramont“, Paris 1716) were published by his son Antoine Charles IV de Gramont.

Château de Pleuville

The chateau has a significant connection with maréchal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889-1952), who played a major role in 20th century French history as one of the four supreme allied commanders in the closing stages of the war.

François-Émile de Lansac

The National Museum of the castles of Versailles and Trianon displays the Portrait équestre du maréchal de la Palisse of 1835.

Gaspard III de Coligny

Gaspard III de Coligny, Maréchal de Châtillon, of the House of Coligny (26 July 1584, Montpellier-4 January 1646, Châtillon), comte de Coligny and seigneur de Châtillon-sur-Loing, then duc de Coligny, marquis d'Andelot, Peer of France, Marshal of France (1622), was a French Protestant general.

L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal

L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal is the verse biography of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke (d. 1219), written shortly after his death at the request of his son.

Le Canard enchaîné

The relations between the two magazines soured during the Spanish Civil War as Maréchal was supporting the Spanish Republican government of Madrid, while Galtier-Boissière was strictly pacifist.

Leopoldo Marechal

The name of the Los Abuelos de la Nada band ("The Grandparents of Nothingness") was taken from a rant contained in Marechal's "Severo Arcángelo".

Marcia Barbosa

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, did her high school at Colégio Marechal Rondon in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, undergraduate and graduate studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Marechal Foch

Marechal Foch was formerly commonly grown in the Loire, but today it is limited to a small number of hectares in Europe.

Marechal Foch is used to make a variety of styles of wine, ranging from a light red wine similar to Beaujolais, to more extracted wines with intense dark "inky" purple colour and unique varietal character, to sweet, fortified, port-style wines.

Péruwelz

In the past named "Magrite fountain", "des Quatre-Cailloux fountain", and "des cailloux gris posés de chant fountain" until it was named "Du Maréchal fountain" in 1887 after its restoration.

Pierre Maréchal

Son of the French entrepreneur, film producer and Titanic survivor of the same name, Pierre Maréchal won his first races — at Santander, Cantabria, driving hydroplanes owned by family friend Count Soriano — at the age of 13.

Ranks in the French Army

Six marshals of France have been given the even more exalted rank of "marshal general of France" (maréchal général de France): Biron, Lesdiguières, Turenne, Villars, Saxe and Soult.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

He participated in the 1634 siege of La Mothe-en-Bassigny in Lorraine under the direction of maréchal de La Force.

Rue des Marronniers

When he left Lyon for Villeurbanne, Marcel Maréchal succeeded him and installed the Théâtre du Cothurne.

Rue Tronchet

The street starts on the Place du Maréchal Lyautey, in front of the Quai de Serbie and ends on the Boulevard Stalingrad which borders the Parc de la Tête d'Or, in Villeurbanne.

Sébastien et la Mary-Morgane

Charles Vanel, a veteran French actor who had played a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's The Wages of Fear (1953), and a restaurateur opposite Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1955), was cast as Sébastien's eccentric but friendly fisherman uncle Louis Maréchal.

The Sucker

Unknown to Maréchal, Saroyan is the leader of a criminal organization and the Cadillac is filled with drugs, stolen gold and diamonds, including the largest diamond in the World, the Youkounkoun.


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