Peyresq
Peyresq (from ''le pays des pierres'', or ''the land of stones'') is a French village in the commune of Thorame-Haute in France, perched on a rocky outcrop of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence at 1,528 metres above sea level. History The village first appears in charters of 1042 as ''Petriscum'', referring to its rocky surroundings. Peyresq (in its occitan spelling Peiresc) gave its name to the famous humanist Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc - he was its lord, but never set foot there. After the French Revolution, the village came to be spelled as Peyresq, and in November 1964 it was merged with the village of La Colle-Saint-Michel to create a new commune called Saint-Michel-Peyresq. That commune was in turn absorbed by the municipality of Thorame-Haute in March 1974. Reconstruction and renaissance In 1952, Georges Lambeau, director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at Namur, was searching the region for a site for a holiday camp for his students and found Peyresq almost completely ...
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Thorame-Haute
Thorame-Haute (; oc, Torama Auta) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Geography Thorame-Haute is a village in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, fixed on the foot of the Massif of Chamatte at an altitude of , in the valley of the High-Verdon. The culminating point is on the mountain of Grand-Coyer (). The point low corresponds to the bed of the Verdon valley. The commune is more downstream from the High-Verdon. The village of Thorame is surrounded by four mountain peaks: Chamatte (), Cheinet (), Serpeigier (), and Cordeil (). Hydrography * The village lies on right bank of the Verdon. * Riou, small torrent which crosses the village, * In the east the limits of the commune join the valley of the Vaïre. * The lake of Sagnes, a reservoir. Villages and localities The commune is composed of several villages, among which are Colle-Saint-Michel and Peyresq, old communes having amalgamated in 1964, before being attached to Thorame in 1974. Peyresq is ...
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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence or sometimes abbreviated as AHP (; oc, Aups d'Auta Provença; ) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, bordering Alpes-Maritimes and Italy to the east, Var to the south, Vaucluse to the west, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes to the north. Formerly part of the province of Provence, it had a population of 164,308 in 2019,Populations légales 2019: 04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
INSEE which makes it the 94th most populated French department. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence's main cities are

Nicolas Claude Fabri De Peiresc
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1 December 1580 – 24 June 1637), often known simply as Peiresc, or by the Latin form of his name, Peirescius, was a French astronomer, antiquary and savant, who maintained a wide correspondence with scientists, and was a successful organizer of scientific inquiry. His research included a determination of the difference in longitude of various locations in Europe, around the Mediterranean, and in North Africa. Early life Peiresc's father was a higher magistrate and city surgeon in Provence from a wealthy noble family, who with his wife fled their home town of Aix-en-Provence to avoid the plague raging there, settling in Belgentier in Var. Peiresc was born in Belgentier and educated in Aix-en-Provence and Avignon, as well as at the Jesuit college at Tournon. At Toulon, he first became interested in astronomy. Studying law and becoming interested in archaeology, he travelled to Italy, Switzerland and France in 1599, and finally finished his leg ...
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Wolfgang Schoor
Wolfgang Schoor (18 September 1926 – 28 January 2007) was a German composer, who wrote orchestral works, song cycles and chamber music and the music for numerous children's and documentary films and radio plays. Life The Cologne-born composer, conductor and song accompanist learned the musical craft in private lessons, at the Rheinische Musikschule Cologne, at the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Studies took place with, among others, Otto A. Graef (piano), Helmut Walcha (organ/harpsichord), Walter Henker (bassoon), Kurt Thomas (choral conducting, composition) and Günter Wand (conducting) as well as consultations with Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Schoor worked as a freelance composer from 1950 1949-1952 also as a music critic for the Kölnische Rundschau,P. Hollfelder: ''Geschichte der Klaviermusik'', vol. 1. F. Noetzel, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, 1989, moved to Weimar in the GDR in 1957 and wrote music for numerous documentaries ther ...
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Université De Mons
The University of Mons (french: Université de Mons) is a Belgian university located in the city of Mons, founded in 2009 by merging the Engineering Faculty of Mons (FPMs) and the University of Mons-Hainaut. The merging of the institutions was achieved following a geographical logic because of the high complementarity between them and their location in the same city. This merger was accepted by the two universities on 6 July 2007 and confirmed by the Belgian French Community Parliament on 25 November 2008. From an administrative point of view the University of Mons was founded on 1 January 2009. Prof. Calogero Conti, former rector of the Engineering Faculty of Mons, became the first rector of the University of Mons. The University of Mons is the fourth (of six) university of the French community of Belgium with over 10,000 students. Faculties *'' Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs) - Faculty of Engineering'' *Faculty of Economics and Management (Warocqué) *Faculty of ...
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Verdon (river)
The Verdon (, ) is a river in Southeastern France, left tributary of the Durance. Its drainage basin is .Bassin versant : Verdon (Le)
Observatoire Régional Eau et Milieux Aquatiques en PACA The Verdon is best known for its impressive : the . This limestone canyon, also called the "Grand Canyon of Verdon", long and more than deep, is a popular climbing and sight-seeing area. The name comes from the green appearance of the waters of the river, in the canyon.

Course

Its source is at an elevation of , in the southwestern part of the
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Eau Courante
Eau or EAU may refer to: * The French word for water * Eau (trigraph), a trigraph of the Latin script * EAU, the IATA code for the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Wisconsin, United States * East Africa University, a private university in Puntland, Somalia * El Asher University, an undergraduate university in the Sharqia Governorate, Egypt * Emergency assessment unit (EAU), a short-stay department in a hospital * Estimated annual usage (EAU) * European Association of Urology, a non-profit organisation of urology professionals * Initiative: Eau, an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization * River Eau The River Eau ( ) is a 15-mile-long (24 km) tributary of the River Trent that flows through Lincolnshire, England. The Eau catchment lies between that of the Bottesford Beck to the north, and the River Witham to the south and east, and c ...

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 ...
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