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Villeneuve-sur-Yonne
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. It is surrounded by a partly intact wall, built during the 12th century, which was one of the 8 residences of the French kings. Geography The city lies on the bank of the river Yonne, between the cities of Sens and Joigny. History The city was founded in 1163 by Louis VII of France to protect the kingdom of France at the boundary of the Champagne. In 1204 King Philip II Augustus held parliament in the city, and Louis IX resided in the city before departing for the Eighth Crusade. In 1594 the city was burnt down. During the French Revolution the name was changed from ''le-Roi'' (the king) to ''sur-Yonne'' (on the Yonne). In 1870 a memorial for the dead was designed by the sculptor Émile Peynot. The city was governed from 1927 till 1931 by the infamous mayor Marcel Pétiot, who was guillotined in 1946, convicted of 26 killings. Demography The inhabitants are call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of Notre-Dame, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne
Outdoors. Indoors. The Church of Notre-Dame (Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption) is a Roman Catholic church located in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne in France (North of Burgundy). It is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption and is a church of the Archdiocese of Sens-Auxerre. History Its first stone was blessed by Pope Alexander III in 1163 at the same time of Notre Dame de Paris. The great Renaissance porch was built in 1575 from sketchings of Jean Chéreau, born in Joigny. The Church was registered in 1862 into Monuments historiques. Eglise Notre-Dame de l'Assomption It is a remarkable example of a Gothic church from the School of Champagne, or Île de France. Some of the stained glass windows are from the 13th century (north side) and others from the 16th century (''The Life of the Virgin'', south side, 1st chapel). You can notice one of the first examples in a stained glass of a figure with spectacles. This window depicting the Last Judgement is due to Jean Cousin the Younger. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's eight constituent departments, it is located in its northwestern part, bordering Île-de-France. It was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. Its prefecture is Auxerre, with subprefectures in Avallon and Sens. Its INSEE and postcode number is 89. Yonne is Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's fourth-most populous department, with a population of 335,707 (2019).Populations légales 2019: 89 Yonne INSEE Its largest city is its prefecture Auxerre, with a population of about 35,000 within city limits and 68,000 in the urban area. History The first evidence of occupation in this ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Pétiot
Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot (17 January 1897 – 25 May 1946) was a French medical doctor and serial killer. He was convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of 23 people in the basement of his home in Paris during World War II. He is suspected of the murder of about 60 victims during his lifetime, although the true number remains unknown. Early life Marcel Petiot was born on 17 January 1897 in Auxerre, Yonne, in north central France. At the age of 11, Petiot fired his father's gun in class and propositioned a female classmate for sex. During his teenage years, he robbed a postbox and was charged with damage of public property and theft. Petiot was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, resulting in charges being dismissed when it was judged that he had a mental illness. Later accounts make various claims of Petiot's delinquency and criminal acts during his youth, but it is unknown whether they were invented afterwards for public consumption. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Peynot
Émile Edmond Jean Peynot (November 22, 1850 – December 12, 1932) was a prominent French artist sculptor and Medalist, medallist. Bio Peynot was born in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, Burgundy. He became well known following his Grand Prize at the Prix de Rome sculpture competition in 1880, and a left a legacy of numerous monuments and reliefs in France as well as Argentina and Ecuador. He died in Paris in 1932. Famous works * ''Marianne'', Place Carnot, Lyon. * Monument to Henri Schneider, Le Creusot. * Monument to François-Louis Français, Plombières-les-Bains, Vosges. * ''Marchand Tunisien'' ("Tunisian Mechant"), portraying an Arab merchant cleaning his weapon. * ''La Aurora'' ("The Twilight"), Parque Centenario, Buenos Aires. * ''Ofrenda Floral a Sarmiento'' ("Flowers for Domingo Sarmiento, Sarmiento"), Parque Tres de Febrero, Palermo Rose Garden, Buenos Aires. * ''La Lucha Eterna'' ("The Eternal Fight"), El Ejido park, Quito. *''Francia a la Argentina'' A gift from the French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté D'agglomération Du Grand Sénonais
Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Sénonais is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Sens. It is located in the Yonne department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central France. Created in 2002, its seat is in Sens.CA du Grand Sénonais (N° SIREN : 248900334) BANATIC. Retrieved 21 November 2022. Its area is 375.2 km2. Its population was 59,202 in 2019, of which 26,688 in Sens proper.Comparateur de territoire [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hornà BÅ™Ãza
Hornà BÅ™Ãza (german: Ober Birken) is a town in Plzeň-North District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 4,100 inhabitants. Geography Hornà BÅ™Ãza is located about north of Plzeň. It lies in the Plasy Uplands. The highest point is at above sea level. The BÄ›lá Stream flows through the town. History The first written mention of Hornà BÅ™Ãza is from 1180. Around 1220, the village was donated to the Plasy Monastery. The appearance of Hornà BÅ™Ãza changed after the great fire in 1865 and also with the construction of the railway line in the years 1871–1873. However, a significant turning point did not occur until the 1880s, when kaolin was discovered here. In 1882, Johann Fitz, a prominent businessman and mining expert from Rokycany, began with its mining. In 1886, he introduced the production of ceramic goods and founded a company which maintained dominant position in the ceramics industry for hundred years. World War II During World War II, some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Caron
Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (; born 1 July 1931) is a French-American actress and dancer. She is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Caron began her career as a ballerina. She made her film debut in the musical ''An American in Paris'' (1951), followed by roles in ''The Man with a Cloak'' (1951), ''Glory Alley'' (1952) and ''The Story of Three Loves'' (1953), before her role of an orphan in ''Lili'' (also 1953), which earned her the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and garnered nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. As a leading lady, Caron starred in films such as '' The Glass Slipper'' (1955), '' Daddy Long Legs'' (1955), '' Gigi'' (1958), '' Fanny'' (1961), both of which earned her Golden Globe nominations, ''Guns of Darkness'' (1962), ''The L-Shaped Room'' (1962), '' Fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braubach
Braubach is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 10 km southeast of Koblenz. Braubach has assorted medieval architecture intact, including portions of the town wall, half-timbered buildings, and castle Marksburg on the hill above. Braubach was the seat of the former ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Braubach. History In 1276 King Rudolf of Habsburg made Braubach a free city under Count Gottfried of Eppstein. Count Eberhard I of Katzenelnbogen bought the city and castle in 1283. Until 1479, the Counts rebuilt the castle constantly. The castle was never conquered and never destroyed. The City of Braubach was the administrative centre of the Katzenelnbogen wine production with Rhens, Spay, Boppard, Horchheim and Salzig and an amount of 33000 L of wine in 1438 and 84000 L of wine in 1443. In the 1845 travel guide '' Le Rhin,'' Victor Hugo notes: "Then comes Brauba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonne (river)
The Yonne () is a river in France, a left-bank tributary of the Seine. It is long. The river gives its name to the Yonne ''département''. It rises in the Nièvre ''département'', in the Morvan hills near Château-Chinon. It flows into the river Seine at Montereau-Fault-Yonne. The Yonne flows through the following ''départements'' and towns: *Nièvre: Château-Chinon, Clamecy *Yonne: Auxerre, Migennes, Joigny, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, Sens *Seine-et-Marne: Montereau-Fault-Yonne The main tributaries of the Yonne are the Vanne, the Armançon, the Serein and the Cure. History The river was historically used for ''flottage'', or the floating of rafts of timber from the Morvan forest to serve the needs of the capital, Paris. It was bypassed as a rafting waterway by the Canal du Nivernais in 1841, from near its source at Corbigny down to Auxerre. In 1834 the engineer Charles Poirée had successfully tested his design for a needle weir, and this construction technique was adop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sens
Sens () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yonne Departments of France, department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, 120 km from Paris. Sens is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture and the second city of the department, the sixth in the region. It is crossed by the Yonne (river), Yonne and the Vanne (river), Vanne, which empties into the Yonne here. History The city is said to have been one of the oppidum, oppida of the Senones, one of the oldest Celtic tribes living in Gaul. It is mentioned as Agedincum by Julius Caesar several times in his ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico''. The Roman city was built during the first century BC and surrounded by walls during the third (notable parts of the walls still remain, with alterations along the centuries). It still retains today the skeleton of its Roman street plan. The site was referred to by Ammianus Marcellinus as ''Senones'' (''oppidum Senonas''), where the future emperor Julian (emperor), Julian f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaissance Architecture
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Ancient Greece, ancient Greek and Ancient Rome, Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance architecture followed Gothic architecture and was succeeded by Baroque architecture. Developed first in Florence, with Filippo Brunelleschi as one of its innovators, the Renaissance style quickly spread to other Italian cities. The style was carried to Spain, France, Germany, England, Russia and other parts of Europe at different dates and with varying degrees of impact. Renaissance style places emphasis on symmetry, proportion (architecture), proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts, as demonstrated in the architecture of classical antiquity and in particular ancient Roman architecture, of which many examples remained. Orderly arrangements of columns, pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of with a mostly temperate continental and oceanic climate. The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec. The Duchy of Bohemia was founded in the late 9th century under Great Moravia. It was formally recognized as an Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire in 1002 and became a kingdom in 1198. Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the whole Crown of Bohemia was gradually integrated into the Habsburg monarchy. The Protestant Bohemian Revolt led to the Thirty Years' War. After the Battle of White Mountain, the Habsburgs consolidated their rule. With the dissolution of the Holy Empire in 1806, the Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
