Hirondelle ( French) may refer to: *

Swallow The swallows, martins, and saw-wings, or Hirundinidae, are a family of passerine songbirds found around the world on all continents, including occasionally in Antarctica. Highly adapted to aerial feeding, they have a distinctive appearance. The ...

(family of birds) * Hirondelle (catamaran) * Hirondelle News Agency, a news organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland *

Dassault Hirondelle The Dassault M.D.320 Hirondelle was a French 14-seat utility transport aircraft of the 1960s, designed and built by Dassault Aviation, in prototype form only. Design and development In 1967 the French Air Force, investigating replacement aircra ...

, a French utility transport aircraft of the 1960s * Western Hirondelle, a kit airplane * ''Hirondelle'', a

GWR 3031 Class The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899. They were designed by William Dean for passenger work. The first 30 members of the class were built ...

locomotive *

Operation Hirondelle Operation Hirondelle took place during the First Indochina War in July 1953. It was an airborne raid on Viet Minh supply depots near Lạng Sơn, involving parachute units of the French Army and Vietnamese National Army. Raids near the junction of ...

, a French

paratrooper A paratrooper is a military parachutist—someone trained to parachute into a military operation, and usually functioning as part of an airborne force. Military parachutists (troops) and parachutes were first used on a large scale during World ...

raid during the

First Indochina War The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) began in French Indochina from 19 December 1946 to 20 July 1954 between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vi ...

* Journal d'Hirondelle, a novel by

Amélie Nothomb Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb (), better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb (; born 13 August 1967),''État présent de la noblesse belge'', éditions of 1979, 1995 and 2010. Her birth is announced in n° 87, aout 1967, p. 340 of the ''Bull ...

in which the young girl is named Hirondelle

People with the surname

Anne Hirondelle Anne Hirondelle (born 1944 in Vancouver, Washington) is an Americans, American Pottery, ceramicist known for her approaches to both the form and function of her pieces. Career Early in her career, she created ceramics that took the form of trad ...

(born 1944), American ceramist

People with the surname

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