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6 unusual facts about vicomte


Aimery IV of Thouars

Aimery IV was also lord of La Chaize (near La Roche-sur-Yon), where he built a castle and a church dedicated to St. Nicolas.

Charles Payraudeau

His entire ornithological collection is conserved as a museum in the Mairie of La Chaize-le-Vicomte in Vendée.

Jacques Boyceau

It was designed for the patron rather than for the gardener, but it had an influence on the designs of André Le Nôtre, who transformed the manner of Boyceau and of the Mollet dynasty of royal gardeners—Claude Mollet and André Mollet—to create the culminating French Baroque gardens, exemplified at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles.

Rockford, Hampshire

A chapel at Rockford, subject to the church of Ellingham, was granted by Walter of St Quentin, with the tithe from his house, to the abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte about 1170, and mass was to be said there three times a week by the chaplain of Ellingham or a monk.

Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte

She was sent by her Order as a missionary nurse to New France, serving at the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, where she died in 1668.

Vaux-le-Vicomte

Inspired by Vaux-le-Vicomte, a similar chateau, the Champ d'Or Estate, was built in Hickory Creek, Texas by Alan and Shirley Goldfield in 2002.


Charles Alexandre de Calonne

Charles Alexandre, vicomte de Calonne (20 January 1734, Douai – 30 October 1802) was a French statesman, best known for his involvement in the French Revolution.

Charles de Bernard de Marigny

Charles-René-Louis, vicomte de Bernard de Marigny (1 February 1740, Sées - 25 July 1816, Brest) was a French vice admiral, grand-cross of the ordre de Saint-Louis and commander of the Brest fleet.

Château de Blandy-les-Tours

The Château de Blandy-les-Tours is a medieval castle in the village of Blandy-les-Tours (Seine-et-Marne, France); it is about 5 km from the château de Vaux-le-Vicomte and 10 km from Melun.

Eric Vicomte de Spoelberch

Éric Vicomte de Spoelberch (Brussels, 15 February 1903 – Nivelles, 27 January 1939) was a Belgian pilot.

François de Souillac

François, Vicomte de Souillac was born on 2 July 1732 in Périgord.

François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte Dubouchage

François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte du Bouchage (born 1 April 1749, Grenoble – 12 April 1821), was an artillery general, politician, and French Minister of Marine in 1792 and 1815, and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1792.

Henry de Beaumont

, (d. after 1 September 1297) who was in right of his wife Agnés de Beaumont, Vicomte of Beaumont in Maine and Seigneur of Beaumont-le-Vicomte (alias Beaumont-sur-Sarthe), Sainte-Suzanne, la Fleche, Fresnay, le Lude, etc.

Jean-Charles Moreux

Gaining a diploma at the École des Beaux-arts de Paris in 1922, he was a friend of Jean Lurçat and worked for Jacques Doucet, baron Robert Rothschild and vicomte Charles de Noailles.

Louis Étienne Arthur Dubreuil, vicomte de La Guéronnière

Louis Étienne Arthur du Breuil, vicomte de La Guéronnière (1816-23 December 1875) was a French politician and aristocrat, the member of a notable Poitou family.

Louis II de la Trémoille

During the course of his career, he earned the titles Vicomte de Thouars, Prince de Talmond, Comte de Guînes et de Bénon, Baron de Sully, de Craon, de Montagu, de Mauléon et de l'Ile-Bouchard, Seigneur des Iles de Ré, de Rochefort et de Marans, and Premier Chambellan du Roi.

Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury

Louis-Étienne François Héricart-Ferrand, vicomte de Thury, (Paris, 3 June 1776 — Rome, 15 January 1854) was a French politician and man of science.

Mauron

Many corpses were left on the field of battle, including the marshal of Offemont, the comte of Marche, the lords Bricquebec, Beauvais, Alain VII (11th vicomte Rohan), Tinténiac and a significant number of knights (around 140).

Moira Lister

In 1951, Moira Lister married Jacques de Gachassin-Lafite Vicomte d’Orthez, a French officer of the Spahis, owner of a champagne vineyard and hero of the Rif War; they had two daughters, Chantal and Christobel.

Perros-Guirec

Perros-Guirec is where, in Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, a teenage Vicomte de Chagny retrieves young Christine Daaé's scarf from the sea.

The Blood of a Poet

Cocteau invited the Vicomte and his wife Marie-Laure de Noailles, along with several of their friends, to appear in a scene as a theatre party.

Viscount

The word viscount, known to be used in English since 1387, comes from Old French visconte (modern French: vicomte), itself from Medieval Latin vicecomitem, accusative of vicecomes, from Late Latin vice- "deputy" + Latin comes (originally "companion"; later Roman imperial courtier or trusted appointee, ultimately count).


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