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The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.
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Albert Lemaître classified 1st in his Peugeot 3hp in the 1894 Paris – Rouen ( motor race )
Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.
* 1979 – Paris Latsis, Greek shipping heir
* 1792 – Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
* 1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
* 1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
* 1572 – Marriage in Paris, France of the Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
* 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
* 1988 – Paris Bennett, American singer
* 1944 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
It is at this point that Paris gives Aeneas Priam's sword, in order to give legitimacy and continuity to the Royal Line of Troy – and lay the foundations of Rome.
This has been published by J. Mabillon in the Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti ( Paris, 1668 – 1701 ).
Both of these are published in the Historiae Francorum Scriptores, Tome ii ( Paris, 1639 – 1649 ).
* 1572 – Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris – St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( Castellón de la Plana, 15 December 1849 – Paris, 24 December 1898 ):
* 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
Alexander Anderson ( c. 1592, Aberdeen – c. 1620, Paris ) was a Scottish mathematician.
Paris and Bordeaux
But the fact remains that in most restaurants, including some of the best of Paris and Bordeaux and Dijon, the bottle is frankly and simply brought from the cellar to the table when ordered, and all the conditioning or preparation it ever receives takes place while the chef is preparing the meal.
Baron Haussmann, a long-time prefect of Bordeaux, used Bordeaux's 18th century big-scale rebuilding as a model when he was asked by Emperor Napoleon III to transform a then still quasi-medieval Paris into a " modern " capital that would make France proud.
The French government relocated from Paris to Bordeaux very briefly during World War II, when it became apparent that Paris would soon fall into German hands ( as in 1870 during war against Prussia and at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war ).
The Duke also insisted to his companions that his death be kept a secret until Louis was informed – the men were to journey from Saint James across the Pyrenees as quickly as possible, to call at Bordeaux to notify the Archbishop, and then to make all speed to Paris, to inform the King.
The Baudot system was accepted by the French Telegraph Administration during 1875, with the first online tests of his system occurring between Paris and Bordeaux on November 12, 1877.
On January 3, 1894 he installed a triplex apparatus on the telegraph between Paris and Bordeaux that had previously been operating with some difficulty on the Hughes telegraph system.
France also boasts a number of seaports and harbours, including Bayonne, Bordeaux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Brest, Calais, Cherbourg-Octeville, Dunkerque, Fos-sur-Mer, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Port-la-Nouvelle, Port-Vendres, Roscoff, Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Malo, Sète, Strasbourg and Toulon.
Goya lost faith in or became threatened by the restored Spanish monarchy's anti-liberal political and social stance and left Spain in May 1824 for Bordeaux and then Paris.
The Celts founded cities such as Lutetia Parisiorum ( Paris ) and Burdigala ( Bordeaux ) while the Aquitanians founded Tolosa ( Toulouse ).
By early September they were within 40 miles of Paris, and the French government had relocated to Bordeaux.
** WWII: The French government flees to Bordeaux and Paris falls under German occupation.
The site has had several owners including IMI, Royal Ordnance and British Aerospace, and is now part of the Roxel Group, headquartered in Paris and with a sister site outside Bordeaux.
* link = European route E05 –: Greenock – Glasgow – Preston – Birmingham – Southampton … Le Havre – Paris – Orléans – Bordeaux – San Sebastián – Burgos-Madrid – Seville – Algeciras
Poitiers railway station is on the TGV Atlantique line between Paris and Bordeaux.
Services run to Angoulême, Limoges and La Rochelle in addition to Paris and Bordeaux.
The first of these great races was the Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895, won by Paul Koechlin in a Peugeot, despiting arriving 11 hours after Émile Levassor in a Panhard et Levassor.
Just eight years later, in the Paris – Madrid race of May 1903, the Mors of Fernand Gabriel, running over the same roads, took just under five and a quarter hours for the to Bordeaux, an average of 105 km / h ( 65. 3 mph ).
Sixteen other parades take place at cities throughout France in: Angers, Biarritz, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Paris, Rennes, Rouen, Strassbourg, Toulouse and Tours.
The ordinances sparked a revolution against Charles's coup attempt ; by 2 August 1830, Charles had fled Paris and abdicated in favour of his grandson Henri, duc de Bordeaux.
The feasibility of the Restoration was in doubt, but the allure of peace to a war-weary French public, and demonstrations of support for the Bourbons in Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, and Lyons, helped assure the Allies.
Bonheur was born in Bordeaux ( where her father had been friends with Francisco Goya who was living there in exile ) but moved to Paris in 1828 at the age of six with her mother and brothers, her father having gone ahead of them to establish a residence and income.
Paris and race
The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.
Sixty-nine cars started the selection event that would show which entrants would be allowed to start the main event, the race from Paris to Rouen.
* 1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen.
Brabham also drove for the works Matra team during the 1970 World Sportscar Championship season and won the final race of the season and his final top level race at the Paris 1000 km in October that year.
From there, Clark went on to Paris, France, where in 1863, a group of racing enthusiasts had formed the French Jockey Club and had organized the Grand Prix de Paris, which at the time was the greatest race in France.
It is also the site of the Paris – Tours road bicycle race.
* February 12 – The first around-the-world car race, the 1908 New York to Paris Race, begins.
* Peking to Paris motor race, won by Prince Scipione Borghese driving a 7 litre 35 / 45 hp Itala.
** The first popular bicycle race is held at Parc de Saint-Cloud, Paris.
In 1911 Garros graduated to flying Bleriot monoplanes and entered a number of European air races with this type of machine, such as the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race.
Their two specials both placed in the first postwar race in France, in Paris in 1945.
Marcel Renault during the 1903 Paris – Madrid race.
Popular both as a Triple Crown champion and in retirement, Secretariat was mourned by millions and buried at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, given the rare honor of being buried whole ; usually only the head, heart, and hooves of a winning race horse are buried, and the rest of the body is cremated.
In his next race, Nijinsky was sent to France for the Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in Paris in October.
In 1907, an 18 hp model successfully competed in the Peking to Paris race.
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