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Châteaudun
Châteaudun () is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It was the site of the Battle of Châteaudun during the Franco-Prussian War. Geography Châteaudun is located about 45 km northwest of Orléans, and about 50 km south-southwest of Chartres. It lies on the river Loir, a tributary of the Sarthe. History Châteaudun (Latin ), which dates from the Gallo-Roman period, was in the middle ages the capital of the County of Dunois. The streets, which radiate from a central square, have a uniformity due to the reconstruction of the town after fires in 1723 and 1870. Employment The area is rich agricultural land, but a major local employer is the Châteaudun Air Base just to the east of the town, and much larger than the town itself. Population Main sights The town has a château, founded in the 10th century, known for being the first on the road to Loire Valley from Paris. Châteaundun also has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Châteaudun
The Battle of Châteaudun was a battle in northwestern France during the Franco-Prussian War, which took place on October 18, 1870. In this battle, the Imperial German Army led by General Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Wittich attacked the city of Châteaudun and captured the city. During the nine-hour battle the attackers defeated forces that included Francs-tireurs led by Ernest de Lipowski who was of Polish origin. Although it ended in defeat, the resistance of the French army at Châteaudun is recorded by one document as legendary. The fighting at Châteaudun was immortalized by a painting by Philippoteaux (the original of which is now located in the Châteaudun mayor's office). The Battle Obeying orders, General Wittich, commander of the German 22nd Division advanced from Orléans to the northwest, and attacked Châteaudun on the Loire which was defended by Lipowski's irregular forces. Wittich's forces had the overwhelming advantage in numbers, and each French soldier fought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Châteaudun Air Base
Châteaudun Air Base (french: Base aérienne 279 Châteaudun) was a French Air Force (french: Armée de l'Air base, between 1934 and 2014. The base was located approximately southeast of Châteaudun and about southwest of Paris. It is currently an airfield attached to Orléans – Bricy Air Base. The base is primarily used for aircraft storage and ferrying them to other squadrons of the Air Force. Entrepot de l'Armee de l'Air 601 was assigned to perform this mission. Each French Air Force squadron stores some of its planes for a while thereby artificially prolong the life of the fleet and better material management. The EAA also has the task of storing new aircraft to be used in times of war. To fulfil its mission, the EAA has the Group Maintenance, repair and storage of aircraft (GERS). A SAN Jodel D.140 Mousquetaire training aircraft is assigned to the base for courier duties. History The facility was a French Air Force base built in 1934. It was used by the air force for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château De Châteaudun
The Château de Châteaudun is a castle located in the town of Châteaudun in the French department of Eure-et-Loir. History The castle was built between the 12th and 16th centuries. The Count of Blois Thibaut V had the keep built around 1170. The Sainte-Chapelle was built between 1451 and 1493. The choir and the high chapel were built between 1451 and 1454, with the nave and the oratory between 1460 and 1464. Together with the Château de Montsoreau (1453) and the Palais Jacques-Cœur (1451), Châteaudun's 15th-century additions are among the earliest examples of residences built essentially for leisure in France. Jehan de Dunois, the ''bâtard d'Orléans'' (Bastard of Orléans), built the west wing (the ''"aile Dunois"'') between 1459 and 1468. The bell tower was erected in 1493. François I of Orléans-LonguevilleFrançois d'Orléans-Longueville (1447–1491), Count of Dunois, Tancarville, Longueville, and Montgomery, Baron of Varenguebec, Viscount of Melun, Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eure-et-Loir
Eure-et-Loir (, locally: ) is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers. It is located in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. In 2019, Eure-et-Loir had a population of 431,575.Populations légales 2019: 28 Eure-et-Loir INSEE History Eure-et-Loir is one of the original 83 departments created during the on March 4, 1790 pursuant to the Act of December 22, 1789. It was created mainly from parts of the former provinces of (Beauce) and Maine ( |
Brice Feillu
Brice Feillu (born 26 July 1985) is a French former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2019 for the , , , and teams. Career Born in Châteaudun, Eure-et-Loir, he is the younger brother of Romain Feillu, who was also a road racing cyclist. Brice Feillu achieved his greatest success with a stage victory on Stage 7 (from Barcelona to Arcalis, Andorra) of the 2009 Tour de France, the highest finish of that year's tour and the longest stage. Feillu joined for the 2014 season, after his previous team – – folded at the end of the 2013 season. Major results ;2007 : 7th Overall Tour Alsace ::1st Young rider classification : 10th Overall Tour du Haut-Anjou ;2008 : 2nd Overall Paris–Corrèze : 6th Overall Tour Alsace ::1st Stage 5 ;2009 : 1st Stage 7 Tour de France ;2010 : 8th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise : 8th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan ;2012 : 6th Overall Volta a Portugal : 8th Klasika Primavera : 10th Overall Circuit de Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romain Feillu
Romain Feillu (born 16 April 1984) is a French former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2019. He is the older brother of Brice Feillu, who also competed professionally as a cyclist. Career Feillu was born in Châteaudun, Eure-et-Loir. In August 2005, Feillu joined as a trainee ( stagiaire) and impressed his team managers, resulting in a professional contract. During the 2006 season he won the Grand Prix Tours as well as the overall rankings of the Tour de la Somme. In 2007 he won a stage in the Tour de Luxembourg and the Circuit de l'Aulne. In that year he also made his Tour de France debut finishing three times in the top 10 in mass sprints. He withdrew after stage 8, which was the second mountain stage. Later that year he won the Tour of Britain and the late season Paris–Bourges. At the end of the 2009 season, he won the Grand Prix de Fourmies. He won this race again in 2010. Feillu joined for the 2014 season, after his previous team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Modeste Lescarbault
Edmond Modeste Lescarbault (1814, Châteaudun - 1894), was a French doctor and an amateur astronomer, best remembered for his 1859 supposed observation of the non-existent planet Vulcan (hypothetical planet), Vulcan. He graduated and obtained his diploma in 1848. He then started to work as a doctor in Orgères-en-Beauce and worked there until 1872 (the street where he worked is now named after him). A keen astronomer, he built an observatory with a 3.75 inches (95 mm) refractor by his house and began correspondence with various scientific societies. On 26 March 1859 he saw a small object Astronomical transit, transiting the Sun and having heard of Urbain Le Verrier, Le Verrier's theory of an intramercurial planet named Vulcan, he wrote a letter to the astronomer and was consequently visited by him in December 1859. Le Verrier announced the discovery on 2 January 1860. Lescarbault became Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and was invited to appear before numerous learned so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Guédron
Pierre Guédron (c. 1570 in Châteaudun – c. 1620 in Paris), was a French singer and composer known for writing ''Air de cour, Airs de cour'' (including ''Cessés mortels de soupirer''). Guédron's ''Est-ce Mars'' (1613) was especially popular and is known in versions by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Sweelinck (keyboard), Samuel Scheidt, Scheidt (5 part strings) and Nicolas Vallet, Vallet (4 lutes of different sizes). Works *6 books of ''Airs de cour à quatre et cinq parties'' *''Airs de différents autheurs mis en tablature de luth'' *1602: ''Ballet sur la Naissance de Monseigneur le duc de Vendosme'' *1610: ''Ballet de Monseigneur le duc de Vendosme oder Ballet d’Alcine'' *1613: ''Ballet de Madame'' *1614: ''Ballet des Argonautes'' *1615: ''Ballet du Triomphe de Minerve'' *1615: ''Ballet de Monsieur le Prince'' *1617: ''Ballet du Roy ou Ballet de la Délivrance de Renaud'' *1618: ''Ballet des Princes'' *1619: ''Ballet du Roy sur L’Adventure de Tancrède en la forest en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Chaperon
Nicolas Chaperon (bapt. 19 October 1612, in Châteaudun – 1656 in Lyon) was a French painter, draughtsman and engraver, a student in Paris of Simon Vouet whose style he adopted before he was further matured by his stay in Rome (1642–51) in the studio of Nicolas Poussin. In 1653-55 the consuls de Lyon called him to decorate the '' hôtel de ville'' but Chaperon dying almost as soon as he arrived, the commission passed to Thomas Blanchet. Chaperon made a name for himself with his suite of engravings after the Raphael Loggie of the Vatican, Rome, 1649, but art historians remember him for the stream of fulminating invective with which Poussin in his correspondence with Paul Fréart de Chantelou described this unruly and vindictive practician who refused to carry through his copy of a ''Transfiguration.'' So little is known of Chaperon that this episode stands out. Most of his paintings have been optimistically attributed to Poussin, and disguised under that sellable name have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schweinfurt
Schweinfurt ( , ; ) is a city in the district of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the surrounding district (''Landkreis'') of Schweinfurt and a major industrial, cultural and educational hub. The urban agglomeration has 100,200 (2018) and the city's catchment area, including the Main-Rhön region and parts of South Thuringia, 759,000 inhabitants. Schweinfurt was first documented in 791 and is one of the oldest cities in Bavaria. Around 1000 the Margraves of Schweinfurt controlled large parts of northern Bavaria. From the 12th century until 1802 Schweinfurt was a Free imperial city within the Holy Roman Empire, around 1700 a humanistic centre and in 1770 began the 250-year industrial history. During World War II, the Americans suffered their biggest air defeat over Schweinfurt in the Second Raid on Schweinfurt ''(Black Thursday)''. On 11 April 1945, the US Army invaded the city. During the Cold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Dunois
The County of Dunois comprised the old ''pagus Dunensis'', the area surrounding Châteaudun in central France. A county had taken form around Châteaudun (''Castrum Dunense'') in the tenth century. It passed to the counts of Blois, who appointed viscounts to administer it. It was re-created as the county of Dunois in 1439, and bestowed on John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Secon ..., an illegitimate son of the Duke of Orléans (who was also count of Blois). {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunois, County of County of Dunois 1439 establishments in Europe 1430s establishments in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of Bécancour, Quebec, Bécancour. It is part of the densely populated Quebec City–Windsor Corridor and is approximately halfway between Montreal and Quebec City. Trois-Rivières is the economic and cultural hub of the Mauricie region. The settlement was founded by French colonists on July 4, 1634, as the second permanent settlement in New France, after Quebec City in 1608. The city's name, which is French for 'three rivers', is named for the fact the Saint-Maurice River has three mouths at the Saint Lawrence River; it is divided by two islands in the river. Historically, in English this city was once known as Three Rivers. Since the late 20th century, when there has been more recognition of Quebec a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
