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Niort
Niort (; Poitevin: ''Niàu''; oc, Niòrt; la, Novioritum) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department, western France. It is the prefecture of Deux-Sèvres. The population of Niort is 58,707 (2017) and more than 177,000 people live in the urban area. Geography The town is located on the river Sèvre Niortaise and is a centre of angelica cultivation in France. Near Niort at Maisonnay there is one of the tallest radio masts in France (height: 330 metres). Transport Niort has a railway station on the TGV route between Paris and La Rochelle, Gare de Niort. Direct TGV to Paris Montparnasse station takes 2 hours and 15 minutes. Niort is a road and motorway junction, connected to Paris and Bordeaux by the A10 motorway, with Nantes by the A83, and with La Rochelle by the N11. It is the largest French city to offer free mass transit. Population The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Niort proper, in its geography at the given year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deux-Sèvres
Deux-Sèvres () is a French department. ''Deux-Sèvres'' literally means "two Sèvres": the Sèvre Nantaise and the Sèvre Niortaise are two rivers which have their sources in the department. It had a population of 374,878 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 79 Deux-Sèvres INSEE In history and literature ''Deux-Sèvres'' was one of the 83 original ''départements'' created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. Departmental borders were changed in 1973 when the inhabitants of the little commune of Puy-Saint-Bonnet became formally[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté D'agglomération Du Niortais
Communauté d'agglomération du Niortais is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Niort. It is located in the Deux-Sèvres department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, western France. It was created in January 2014 by the merger of the former ''Communauté d'agglomération de Niort'' with the former '' communauté de communes Plaine de Courances'' and the commune Germond-Rouvre. Its seat is in Niort.CA du Niortais (N° SIREN : 200041317) BANATIC, accessed 6 April 2022. Its area is 815.4 km2. Its population was 120,733 in 2017, of which 58,707 in Niort proper. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sèvre Niortaise
The Sèvre Niortaise () is a long river in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Pays de la Loire regions in western France, flowing into the Atlantic Ocean. Its source is in the Deux-Sèvres department, near Sepvret, north of Melle. It flows through the following departments and towns: *Deux-Sèvres: Saint-Maixent-l'École, Niort * Vendée: Damvix * Charente-Maritime: Marans It flows into the Atlantic Ocean in Bourg-Chapon, north of the city of La Rochelle. The largest city along the river is Niort, which gives it the name Sèvre ''Niortaise'', distinguishing it from the Sèvre Nantaise The Sèvre Nantaise () is a river in the Pays de la Loire regions in western France. It is a left-bank tributary of the Loire. Its total length is . Its source is in the Deux-Sèvres department, near Secondigny. It flows from south to north thro .... Its largest tributaries are the Vendée and the Autise. References 0Sevre Niortaise Rivers of France Rivers of Nouvelle-Aquitaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantons Of Niort
The cantons of Niort are administrative divisions of the Deux-Sèvres department, in western France. Since the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the city of Niort Niort (; Poitevin: ''Niàu''; oc, Niòrt; la, Novioritum) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department, western France. It is the prefecture of Deux-Sèvres. The population of Niort is 58,707 (2017) and more than 177,000 people live in th ... is subdivided into 3 cantons. Their seat is in Niort. Population References {{DEFAULTSORT:Niort Cantons of Deux-Sèvres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gare De Niort
Niort is a railway station in Niort, France. Niort is linked to Paris and towns and cities in the region: *Paris - La Rochelle (TGV Atlantique) * La Rochelle - Niort - Poitiers (TER) * Royan - Saintes - Niort (TER Ter or TER may refer to: Places * River Ter, in Essex, England * Ter (river), in Catalonia * Ter (department), a region in France * Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy * Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno o ...) References Railway stations in Nouvelle-Aquitaine Buildings and structures in Deux-Sèvres Railway stations in France opened in 1856 {{Poitou-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickaël Brunet
Mickaël Brunet (September 6, 1974 – July 31, 2004) was a footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugb .... He played as a midfielder and played 10 Ligue 2 matches for Niort. External linksMickaël Brunet profileat chamoisfc79.fr 1974 births 2004 deaths French footballers Association football midfielders Chamois Niortais F.C. players Ligue 2 players {{france-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Chérau
Gaston Chérau (6 November 1872 – 20 April 1937) was a French man of letters and journalist. Biography The son of an industrialist, Gaston Chérau died in Boston during a lecture tour. A journalist and chronicler, he regularly gave the press his impressions of travel. In 1911, he traveled through Tripolitania conquered by the Italians on behalf of '' Le Matin'' newspaper. In 1914, he was a war reporter for the newspaper '' L'Illustration'' in Belgium and the North of France. A fertile novelist of the province, his pen is very influenced by the Berry where he had family roots, stayed a part of his childhood, and where he returned assiduously on vacation in a second home until the end of his life. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1926. He was also interested in cinema and wrote the dialogues of the film ''Les Deux mondes'' (1930) directed by Ewald Andreas Dupont. Literary work He is the author of about forty novels. *1901: ''Les grandes époques ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Mast Niort-Maisonnay
The TV Mast Niort-Maisonnay is a guyed mast for TV transmission in Maisonnay, near Niort, France. Built in 1978, it is one of the tallest structures in France, taller than Eiffel Tower. See also * List of tallest structures in the world The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at . Listed are guyed masts (such as telecommunication masts), self-supporting towers (such as the CN Tower), skyscrapers (such as the Willis Tower), oil platforms, electricity t ... Notes External links * http://perso.wanadoo.fr/tvignaud/galerie/tv-fm/79niort.htm * * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b45906 Towers completed in 1978 Buildings and structures in Deux-Sèvres Radio masts and towers in Europe Transmitter sites in France 1978 establishments in France {{Europe-mast-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achille-Félix Montaubry
Achille-Félix Montaubry (12 November 1826 – 2 October 1898) was a French musician and operatic tenor, active in Paris; later a theatre director. His brother was the conductor and composer Édouard Montaubry (1824–1883).Fétis F.-J.: ''Biographie universelle des musiciens'' (Paris, 1878). Life and career Born in Niort, Deux-Sèvres, Montaubry at first studied cello at the Paris Conservatoire and began to play in orchestras, notably in the orchestra of the Théâtre du Vaudeville where his brother played first violin. Realising that he had an attractive voice, he returned to the Conservatoire as a student of Auguste Panseron and Marie Moreau-Sainti. After completing his studies he went to America and was engaged in New Orleans in both Italian and French opera. After two years he returned to Europe and found success as a light tenor in Lille, Brussels, the Hague, Strasbourg and Bordeaux. In 1858 he was offered a five-year contract at the Opéra-Comique for 40,000 francs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maisonnay
Maisonnay () is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. See also * TV Mast Niort-Maisonnay *Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department The following is a list of the 256 communes of the Deux-Sèvres department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Deux-Sèvres {{DeuxSèvres-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departments Of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety-six departments are in metropolitan France, and five are overseas departments, which are also classified as overseas regions. Departments are further subdivided into 332 arrondissements, and these are divided into cantons. The last two levels of government have no autonomy; they are the basis of local organisation of police, fire departments and, sometimes, administration of elections. Each department is administered by an elected body called a departmental council ( ing. lur.. From 1800 to April 2015, these were called general councils ( ing. lur.. Each council has a president. Their main areas of responsibility include the management of a number of social and welfare allowances, of junior high school () buildings and technical st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gare Montparnasse
Gare Montparnasse (; Montparnasse station), officially Paris-Montparnasse, one of the six large Paris railway termini, is located in the 14th and 15th arrondissements. The station opened in 1840, was rebuilt in 1852 and relocated in 1969 to a new station just south of the original location – where subsequently the prominent Montparnasse Tower was constructed. It is a central element to the Montparnasse area. The original station is noted for the Montparnasse derailment, where a steam train crashed through the station in 1895, an event captured in widely known photographs – and reproduced in full scale in several locations. The station serves intercity TGV trains to the west and southwest of France including Tours, Bordeaux, Rennes and Nantes, and suburban and regional services on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse routes. There is also a metro station. Gare Montparnasse is the only mainline terminus in Paris not directly connected to the RER system, though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
