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Villefranche - Tarare Airport
Villefranche may refer to: Places in France * Villefranche, Gers, Gers department * Villefranche, Yonne, Yonne department * Villefranche-d'Albigeois, Tarn department * Villefranche-d'Allier, Allier department * Villefranche-de-Conflent, Pyrénées-Orientales department * Villefranche-de-Lauragais, Haute-Garonne department * Villefranche-de-Lonchat, Dordogne department * Villefranche-de-Panat, Aveyron department * Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron department * Villefranche-du-Périgord, Dordogne department * Villefranche-du-Queyran, Lot-et-Garonne department * Villefranche-le-Château, Drôme department * Villefranche-sur-Cher, Loir-et-Cher department * Villefranche-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes department * Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône department * Villefranche, former municipality, now part of Saulmory-et-Villefranche, Meuse department Other uses * Jacques-Melchior Villefranche (1829–1904), French Catholic publicist * Villefranche XIII Aveyron, semi-professional rugby league f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villefranche, Gers
Villefranche-d'Astarac (; before 2023: Villefranche; oc-gsc, Vilafranca d'Astarac) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. Geography Population See also *Communes of the Gers department The following is a list of the 461 communes of the Gers department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Gers {{Gers-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villefranche-du-Queyran
Villefranche-du-Queyran (; Gascon: ''Vilafranca deu Cairan'') is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... in south-western France. See also * Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department References Villefrancheduqueyran {{LotGaronne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villefranche XIII Aveyron
Villefranche XIII Aveyron are a semi-professional rugby league club based in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron in southern France. Formed in 1950, they currently play in the Elite Two Championship. Their home stadium is the Stade Henri Lagarde. History The club was founded in 1950 under the name Villefranche XIII after the towns rugby union club Stade Villefranchois switched codes after several disagreements with the French rugby union authorities. On 8 January 1950 the club's president Andre Rotambourg applied to join the French rugby league and the club was accepted and began the following season in the amateur 2nd Division. In 1953 they lost the 2nd Division final 10-13 against Arcachon. Four years later they reached their only Coupe Falcou final but lost to Facture. It would take until 1962 for the club to be crowned 2nd Division champions, defeating La Reole XIII 21-3 to gain promotion to the National League 1 now the 2nd tier Elite Two. They remained in the 2nd tier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-Melchior Villefranche
Jacques-Melchior Villefranche (b. at Couzon-sur-Saône, 17 December 1829; d. at Bourg, 10 May 1904) was a French editor, writer, and publicist working for Roman Catholic causes. Life After classical studies at the lesser seminary of Largentière, he entered the telegraphic service. In that capacity in 1855, during the Crimean War, he directed the telegraphic bureau of Varna, the first landing-place of the Franco-Russian troops. In 1870 as telegraphic director at Versailles he was attached to the service of telegraphic communications of the army of Le Mans. In 1875, he left the telegraphic service, and assumed the editorship of the ''Journal de l'Ain'', in which he defended the cause of religious liberty, and campaigned against the laws of scholastic secularization. Works He was prolific. His "Fables" (1851) and his "Fabuliste Chrétien" (1875) were pedagogical works. A number of historical and judicial romances included "Cineas, ou Rome sous Néron" (1869), which was translated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saulmory-et-Villefranche
Saulmory-Villefranche (before 2017: ''Saulmory-et-Villefranche'') 22 December 2017 is a in the in in north-eastern . See a ...
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Villefranche-sur-Saône
Villefranche-sur-Saône (, ; frp, Velafranche) is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the river Saône, and is around north of Lyon. The inhabitants of the town are called ''Caladois''. History Villefranche-sur-Saône was founded in 1212 by Guichard IV, count of Beaujeu ( frp, Bôjor/Biôjœr), and became in the 14th century the capital of the Beaujolais ( frp, Biôjolês) province. It endured three sieges in the 15th and 16th centuries. The town walls were taken down early in the 19th century. Population The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Villefranche-sur-Saône proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Villefranche-sur-Saône absorbed the former communes of Béligny and Ouilly (partly) in 1853. Economy Industries include wine-trading, metallurgy, textiles, and chemicals. Transport The Autoroute du Sud (the principal road from Paris to the south of France) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villefranche-sur-Mer
Villefranche-sur-Mer (, ; oc, Vilafranca de Mar ; it, Villafranca Marittima ) is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera and is located south-west of the Principality of Monaco, which is just west of the French-Italian border. Geography Villefranche-sur-Mer is immediately to the east of the city of Nice, along Mont Boron, Mont Alban and Mont Vinaigrier, and south-west of Monaco. The bay (''rade'') of Villefranche is one of the deepest natural harbours of any port in the Mediterranean Sea and provides safe anchorage for large ships from easterly winds. Reaching depths of 320 ft (95 m) between the Cape of Nice and Cap Ferrat; it extends to the south to form a 1,700 ft (500 m) abyss known as the undersea Canyon of Villefranche at about one nautical mile off the coastline. The Bay is the place where the American 6th Fleet moors when cruising the Mediterranean Coast. The city limits ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villefranche-sur-Cher
Villefranche-sur-Cher (), commonly known as Villefranche, is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ..., central France. Population See also * Communes of the Loir-et-Cher department References Communes of Loir-et-Cher {{LoirCher-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villefranche-le-Château
Villefranche-le-Château (; oc, label=Vivaro-Alpine, Vilafrancha dau Chastèu) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Drôme department The following is a list of the 363 communes of the Drôme department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Drôme {{Drôme-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villefranche-du-Périgord
Villefranche-du-Périgord (; Languedocien: ''Vilafranca de Perigòrd'') is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Villefranche-du-Périgord station has rail connections to Périgueux and Agen. Population See also *Communes of the Dordogne department The following is a list of the 503 communes of the Dordogne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Dordogne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villefranche, Yonne
Villefranche is a former commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Charny-Orée-de-Puisaye. 13/17 November 2015 See also *Communes of the Yonne department
The following is a list of the 423 communes of the Yonne
Yonne () is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the river Yonne, which flows through it, in the country's north-central part. One of Bourgo ...
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Villefranche-de-Rouergue
Villefranche-de-Rouergue (; oc, Vilafranca de Roergue ) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. Villefranche-de-Rouergue station has rail connections to Toulouse, Figeac and Aurillac. History At the end of the Albigensian Crusade from the northern "barons" against the southern Occitania on a religious pretext (fighting the Cathar heresy), the Count of Toulouse was defeated and concluded the Treaty of Paris in 1229. With this, the Count gave the Rouergue county to his daughter. She married Alphonse de Poitiers, brother of Saint Louis, King of France. Alphonse founded Villefranche on the place of an old village called La Peyrade in 1252. In 1348 it was so flourishing that sumptuary laws were passed. Soon afterwards the town fell into the hands of Edward the Black Prince, but was the first place in Guyenne to rise against the English. New privileges were granted to the town by Charles V, but these were taken away by Louis XI. In 1588 the inhabitants repulse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
