Biron may refer to:
Places
France
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Biron, Charente-Maritime
Biron () is a Communes of France, commune in the Charente-Maritime Departments of France, department in southwestern France. In the late nineteenth century Philippe Delamain, a merchant from Jarnac, excavated a cemetery from the Merovingian dynas ...
, in the Charente-Maritime department
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Biron, Dordogne
Biron (; oc, Biront) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.
Geography
Biron lies between the Dropt and Lède rivers between the towns of Monpazier, Villeréal and Villefranche-du-Périgord.
Population
Sights
Biro ...
, in the Dordogne department
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Château de Biron
The Château de Biron is a castle in the valley of the Lède in the ''commune'' of Biron in the Dordogne ''département'' of France.
History
It was the castle from which the Gontaut-Biron took their name, their seat from the twelfth century. B ...
, in the village of Biron, Dordogne
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Biron, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department
United States
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Biron, Wisconsin
Biron is a village in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 839 at the 2010 census. It is the site of ND Paper's Biron Mill.
History
The first settlement in Biron was a sawmill that was built in 1839. Francis X. Biron, for ...
People
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Biron (surname)
Biron is a toponymic surname that is derived from either one of several places in France, or, as a variant spelling of Byron, from Byram, North Yorkshire. Notable people with the surname include:
* Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron (1524–1592), ...
, includes a list of people with the surname
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Biron House
Biron Howe House (18 December 1884 – 3 June 1930) played first-class cricket for Somerset in three matches between 1912 and 1914. He was born at Langport, Somerset and died at Creech St Michael, also in Somerset.
House was a wicketkeeper ...
(born 1884-1930), English cricketer
Other uses
* Biron, original name of the centaur who later became
Comet (DC Comics)
* Biron (or Berowne), a light-headed, light-tongued lord in the suite of the King of Navarre, in Shakespeare's ''
Love's Labor's Lost
''Love's Labour's Lost'' is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions a ...
''
* Biron, a character in the tragedy ''
The Fatal Marriage
''The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery'' is a 1694 tragicomedy by the Anglo-Irish writer Thomas Southerne. It was part of the tradition of She-tragedy which flourished at the time. Incidental music for the work was composed by Henry P ...
'', by
Thomas Southerne
Thomas Southerne (12 February 166026 May 1746) was an Irish dramatist.
Biography
Thomas Southerne, born on 12 February 1660, in Oxmantown, near Dublin, was an Irish dramatist. He was the son of Francis Southerne (a Dublin brewer) and Margaret ...
; the husband of Isabella, and brother of Carlos
See also
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Byron (disambiguation)
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