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Habloville
Habloville () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. The inhabitants of Habloville,are called Hablovillais and Hablovillaises Geography The commune of Habloville borders Suisse Normande to the north, south and west and on its eastern border the communes of Ri and Rônai. The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Habloville, Launay Percot, Bissey and Noirville. The source of the river Baize is located at the village lavoir opposite the church. History Neolithic period Habloville contains evidence of Neolithic presence in the area with a dolmen or stone table measuring 3.25 meters by 2.95 meters called the Dolmen des Bignes. The Dolmen is situated just North of another Neolithic site, this time a set of Tumulus, in Habloville called the Tumulus des Hogues which was listed as a historical monument in 1968. Roman The village Ablo-Villa, literally the domain of Hablon, was probably born in the Gallo-Roman era. Venus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baize (Orne, Right Bank)
The Baize is a river in northwestern France, crossing the departments of Orne and Calvados. It is 25.72 km long. Its source is in Habloville, and it flows into the river Orne at the border between the communes of Les Isles-Bardel and Rapilly, at the end of the Baize valley, through Suisse Normande. Tributaries A list of the major tributaries of the Baize: *Bilaine *Bezeron *Boulaire *Ruisseau du Val Lienard *Ruisseau du Val *Ruisseau de la Fontaine Andre *Ruisseau des Vallees *Ruisseau des Vaux Viets Fauna and Flaura The rocky and stoney bed with good water quality makes the Baize a good habitat for spawning Atlantic salmon and Sea trout, as well as River Trout and white-clawed crayfish ''Austropotamobius pallipes'' is an endangered European freshwater crayfish, and the only crayfish native to the British Isles. Its common names include white-clawed crayfish and Atlantic stream crayfish. Distribution It is found from the eas .... References Rivers of France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Champcerie
Champcerie () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. Geography The commune of Champcerie is part of the area known as Suisse Normande. The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Champcerie, Fumeçon and La Chardinière. The river Baize runs through the commune, along with two of its tributaries, Ruisseau de la Fontaine Andre and Ruisseau des Vallees. Notable buildings and places The Commune contains a Renaissance period house has been listed as Monument historique as the main interest lies in the quality and refinement of its interior decor, as very little has been altered since the origin. File:Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Victoires de Champcerie.jpg, Chapelle of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Champcerie See also * Communes of the Orne department The following is a list of the 385 communes of the Orne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giel-Courteilles
Giel-Courteilles () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. The current commune was formed in 1965 when the two communes of Giel and Courteilles merged. Geography The commune of Giel-Courteilles is part of the area known as Suisse Normande. The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Giel-Courteilles, Courteilles,Le Jardin, Les Landes and Les Préaux. The river Orne runs through the commune, along with one of its tributaries Ruisseau du Gue Blandin. Notable people * Michel Onfray a French writer and philosopher was schooled at the Giel-Don Bosco Catholic school Giel-Courteilles. File:Église Saint-Roch de Giel-Courteilles (Courteilles).JPG, Church of Saint-Roch in Courteilles File:Chapelle du Lycée Agricole et Professionnel Giel-Don Bosco de Giel-Courteilles.jpg, Chapel of the Giel-Don Bosco Agricultural and Professional High School in Giel-Courteilles See also * Communes of the Orne department The following is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monts-sur-Orne
Monts-sur-Orne () is a commune in the department of Orne, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2018 by merger of the former communes of Goulet (the seat), Montgaroult and Sentilly. Population The former commune of Sentilly had a 2019 population of 128.Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019 INSEE Geography The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Goulet, Pommereux, Montgaroult, Sentilly, Vaux le Bardoult, Fontaine and Vloger. It also borders the area kn ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilda Of Flanders
Matilda of Flanders (french: link=no, Mathilde; nl, Machteld) ( 1031 – 2 November 1083) was Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy by marriage to William the Conqueror, and regent of Normandy during his absences from the duchy. She was the mother of ten children who survived to adulthood, including two kings, William II and Henry I. In 1031, Matilda was born into the House of Flanders, the second daughter of Count Baldwin V of Flanders and Adela of France. Flanders was of strategic importance to England and most of Europe as a "stepping stone between England and the Continent" necessary for strategic trade and for keeping the Scandinavian Intruders from England. In addition, her mother was the daughter of Robert II of France. For these reasons Matilda was of grander birth than William, who was illegitimate, and, according to some more romantic tellings of the story, she initially refused his proposal on this account. Her descent from the Anglo-Saxon royal House of Wess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Archaeological Museum, France
The National Archaeological Museum (French: Musée d'Archéologie nationale) is a major French archaeology museum, covering pre-historic times to the Merovingian period (450–750 CE). It is housed in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the ''département'' of Yvelines, about west of Paris. Building The château had been one of the most important French royal residences in the Paris region since the 12th century. Following the move of the court to Versailles, the castle housed the court of James II of England in exile, became a cavalry school in 1809 and finally a military prison from 1836 to 1855. The château, which was in very poor condition, was classified as a ''monument historique'' on 8 April 1863. The interior was a maze of cells, corridors, false floors and partitions. The exterior was dilapidated and covered in a black coating. The architect Eugène Millet, a pupil of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, was given the job of restoring the château to hold the planned National M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. Inhabitants are called ''Saint-Germanois'' or ''Saint-Germinois''. With its elegant tree-lined streets it is one of the more affluent suburbs of Paris, combining both high-end leisure spots and exclusive residential neighborhoods (see the Golden Triangle of the Yvelines). Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a sub-prefecture of the department. Because it includes the National Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, it covers approximately , making it the largest commune in the Yvelines. It occupies a large loop of the Seine. Saint-Germain-en-Laye lies at one of the western termini of Line A of the RER. History Saint-Germain-en-Laye was founded in 1020 when King Robert the Pious (ruled 996–1031) founded a convent on the site of the present Church of Saint-Germain. In 1688, James II of England exiled hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William The Conqueror
William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first House of Normandy, Norman List of English monarchs#House of Normandy, king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy from 1035 onward. By 1060, following a long struggle to establish his throne, his hold on Normandy was secure. In 1066, following the death of Edward the Confessor, William invaded England, leading an army of Normans to victory over the Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon forces of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest. The rest of his life was marked by struggles to consolidate his hold over England and his continental lands, and by difficulties with his eldest son, Robert Curthose. William was the son of the unmarried Duke Robert I of Normandy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of France
The () is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, ' in Germany, ' in Italy, or ' in Spain. The United Kingdom's equivalent are civil parishes, although some areas, particularly urban areas, are unparished. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the municipal arrondi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus (mythology)
Venus (), , is a Roman goddess, whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor. Venus was central to many religious festivals, and was revered in Roman religion under numerous cult titles. The Romans adapted the myths and iconography of her Greek counterpart Aphrodite for Roman art and Latin literature. In the later classical tradition of the West, Venus became one of the most widely referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love and sexuality. She is usually depicted nude in paintings. Etymology The Latin theonym ''Venus'' and the common noun ''venus'' ('love, charm') stem from a Proto-Italic form reconstructed as ''*wenos-'' ('desire'), itself from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) ' ('desire'; cf. Messapic ''Venas'', Old Indic ''vánas'' 'de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellême
Bellême () is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France. The musicologist Guillaume André Villoteau (1759–1839) was born in Bellême, as was Aristide Boucicaut (1810-1877), owner of ''Le'' ''Bon Marché'', the world's first department store''.'' This town is possibly the origin of the English and French surname Bellamy''. Location At the heart of the Parc Naturel Régional du Perche, in the Orne Department, Bellême is on a hill that dominates the Perche area. Population Heraldry Sights * Church of Saint-Sauveur 15th century, 16th century, rebuilt between 1675 and 1710. * Crypt of the Saint-Santin Chapel, dating from the tenth century. * Château gatehouse 15th century, and moat. * Remains of the ramparts, bearing a plaque commemorating the capture of the château and the town by King Saint Louis and his mother, Blanche of Castile in 1229. * 17th century and eighteenth century houses. * 17th century Hôtel de ville. * Sundials on rue du Château, place de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole functional area (France), metropolitan area was 516,973. Tours sits on the lower reaches of the Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. Formerly named Caesarodunum by its founder, Roman Augustus, Emperor Augustus, it possesses one of the largest amphitheaters of the Roman Empire, the Tours Amphitheatre. Known for the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, it is a National Sanctuary with connections to the Merovingian dynasty, Merovingians and the Carolingian dynasty, Carolingians, with the Capetian dynasty, Capetians making the kingdom's currency the Livre tournois. Martin of Tours, Saint Martin, Gregory of Tours and Alcuin were all from Tours. Tours was once part of Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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