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unusual facts about region of France



Col de Saverne

The Col de Saverne (Pass of Saverne or Saverne Pass) is a natural pass in the north of the Vosges mountains, near Saverne, which permits travel between the département of Bas-Rhin, région Alsace and the département of Moselle, région Lorraine.


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Cath Palug

Another tradition of unknown origin associates it with the Mont du Chat in the Savoie region of France, near Lake Geneva, where Arthur was defeated by the Cat in a battle fought in a swamp near that mountain.

Château d'Opme

The Château d'Opme (pronounced 'ome') is an 11th-century castle, later converted to an elegant château, located in the commune of Romagnat, in the département of Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France, nine kilometers south of Clermont-Ferrand.

Château de La Palice

The Château de La Palice is a castle, developed into a xhâteau, in the commune of Lapalisse in the Allier département of the Auvergne région of France.

Château de Montbillon

The Château de Montbillon is a château in Saint-Sornin in the Allier départment in the Auvergne region of France.

Château de Petit-Bois

The Château de Petit-Bois is a 19th century mansion in Cosne-d'Allier in the Allier départment in the Auvergne region of France.

Château de Vallery

The Early Renaissance French Château de Vallery, in Vallery, in the département of Yonne in the Burgundy region of France, was built in 1548 for Jacques d'Albon de Saint-André, marquis de Fronsac, a court favorite of Henri II and maréchal de France.

Chuckey, Tennessee

Tom Michaels, who had written a Ph.D thesis on truffle cultivation, started cultivating truffles in the area in 2000 after observing that the area's limestone soil was similar to the soil of the Périgord region of France, where black truffles are native.

Communauté de communes du Pays d'Issoudun

The communauté de communes du Pays d'Issoudun was created on December 20, 1993 and is located in the Cher and Indre départements of the Centre region of France.

Communauté de communes Fercher – Pays florentais

The communauté de communes Fercher - Pays florentais was created on December 29, 2000 and is located in the Cher département of the Centre region of France.

Demetae

Their origin is uncertain, however, a number of place names are similar to what were Celtic regions in what is now the Bordeaux region of France as Llanmadoc and Landes du Médoc, Gwynedd and Gironde, Demetae and Devèze, suggestive of Pre-Roman Celtic Northerly travels on the portside of the North Atlantic Current.

Edgar Chahine

By the end of that year, a museum in CrouttesVimoutiers in the Orne region of France was named after him, Musée Chahine.

Ensemble La Fenice

Ensemble La Fenice is a period wind band based in the town of Auxerre in the Burgundy region of France.

Ettore Bugatti

Ettore Bugatti was buried in the Bugatti family plot at the municipal cemetery in Dorlisheim near Molsheim in the Bas-Rhin département of the Alsace region of France.

Europa City

It was introduced to the public as an international invited competition for design of an 800,000 square metre cultural, recreational, and retail development located in the Triangle de Gonesse region of France.

Evernia prunastri

Oakmoss is commercially harvested in countries of South-Central Europe and usually exported to the Grasse region of France where its fragrant compounds are extracted as Oakmoss absolutes and extracts.

Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen

The Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen is a long-backed, short legged hunting breed of dog of the hound type, originating in the Vendée region of France.

Gustave Rives

Bernard Auguste Rives was born 16 September 1858 in Saint-Palais, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Aquitaine region of France.

Haras d'Ouilly

The Haras d'Ouilly is a renowned horse breeding farm in Pont-d'Ouilly, Calvados in the Basse-Normandie region of France established in the 19th century.

Haras du Mezeray

Haras du Mezeray is a French Thoroughbred horse breeding farm located at Ticheville, Orne, in the Lower Normandy region of France.

History of perfume

By the 18th century, aromatic plants were being grown in the Grasse region of France to provide the growing perfume industry with raw materials.

Jean Giono

Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.

Le Safran de la Chapelle-Vicomtesse

Le Safran de la Chapelle Vicomtesse are producers of Saffron in the Loir-et-Cher region of France.

Les Deux Amants

The mountain mentioned in the poem actually exists, near the commune of Pîtres in the Haute-Normandie region of France.

Leval

Leval, Nord, a commune in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France

Longovicium

The Lingones inhabited the Plateau de Langres in the Bourgogne region of France, near Dijon.

Marduke

Marduke was Shaun's partner in the guard, but when one of their missions, to the Ardennes region of France, meant that they had to save a beautiful woman from the Order, while she saves her family from the plague, and then leave her to die, they fell out.

Migros

Migros opened its first foreign supermarket in the frontier region of France, in Thoiry, in 1993, and its first recreation park, Säntispark, at Abtwil in St. Gallen, in 1986.

Mont Bessou viewing tower

The Mont Bessou viewing tower is a purpose-built panoramic tower, north of the town of Meymac in the Corrèze department of the Limousin (region) of France

Monts Dore

The Monts Dore are the remnant peaks of a volcanic massif situated near the center of the Massif Central, in the Auvergne region of France.

Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial

On the friese and the exterior walls of the chapel and museum are twenty-three carved shields representing the branch and service insignia that served in this region of France, and the museum and chapel both include stylized versions of the Great Seal of the United States.

Order of Interbeing

Plum Village Buddhist Center in the Dordogne region of France is established by TNH and Sister Chan Khong

Organisation civile et militaire

The Organisation civile et militaire (OCM, "Civil and military organization") was one of the great movements of the French Resistance in the zone occupée, the northern German-occupied region of France, during the Second World War.

Pecq

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

Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny

Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny was born at Fauquembergues, near Saint-Omer, in the former Artois region of France (now Pas-de-Calais), four months before the marriage of his parents, Marie-Antoinette Dufresne and Nicolas Monsigny.

Plazac

During World War II, Plazac sheltered the residents of Bindernheim (in the Alsace region of France, which was the site of heavy fighting).

Pont-Audemer Spaniel

The breed is alleged to have been developed in the Pont-Audemer region of France in the nineteenth century.

Prince Eugen of Bavaria

Prince Eugen of Bavaria died on 1 January 1997 at Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France.

Ralph Waldo Tyler

In 1918, a committee overseen by Emmett J. Scott, who was then serving as the Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of War, selected Tyler to be stationed in the northeast Metz region of France along with General John J. Pershing's brigade.

Saint-Chéron

Saint-Chéron, Marne, a commune of the Champagne-Ardenne region of France

Sermaise

Sermaise, Maine-et-Loire, a commune of the Pays de la Loire region of France

Sovereign Dancer

At age four Sovereign Dancer was sold to Alec Head's Haras du Quesnay near Deauville in the Lower Normandy region of France where he complied a record of two wins, three seconds, and a third in ten starts on grass for trainer Criquette Head-Maarek.

Stephanos of Tallinn

He was appointed in 1972 as protosyngellos (i.e., episcopal vicar) for the southern region of France, with his base in Nice.

The Duellists

The main locations used for shooting the film were in and around Sarlat-la-Canéda in the Dordogne region of France.

Torfou

Torfou, Maine-et-Loire, a commune of the Pays de la Loire region of France

Tulle murders

After a successful FTP offensive on 7 and 8 June 1944, the arrival of Das Reich troops forced the guerillas to evacuate the city of Tulle (Corrèze), in the Limousin region of France.

Uzay

Uzay-le-Venon, commune in the Cher département of the Centre region of France

Vailly

Vailly-sur-Sauldre,a commune in the Cher department in the Centre region of France.

Villa Marguerite

The Villa Marguerite or Château Marguerite is a mansion in Neussargues-Moissac in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region of France.

Wildenstein Castle

Château de Wildenstein, ruined castle in the Alsace region of France, situated in the commune of Kruth in the Haut-Rhin département