Journet
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Journet
OR:
Journet on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Journet () is a commune in the Vienne
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 the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.


Geography

The Salleron flows north-northwestward through the eastern part of the commune.


History

After the retreat of the Germans from France in World War II, it was revealed that the
French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...
had a secret repository of scientific materials, including 100 boxes of records of the French chemist,
Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( , ; ; 26 August 17438 May 1794),
CNRS (
Chateau du Ry at Journet, near Vienne, where the Gestapo and the ERR weren't able to find them.Rorimer, James J. 1950. Survival: The Salvage and Restoration of Art in War. New York: Abelard Press. Pages 66-67.


See also

* Communes of the Vienne department


References

Communes of Vienne {{Vienne-geo-stub