According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

Tours are available by appointment, Monday through Saturday.

Examples of such people are Saint Hilarion and Saint Ephrem the Syrian in the East, and Saint Martin of Tours and Saint Hilary of Poitiers in the West.

Tram systems are planned or under construction in Dijon, Le Havre, Tours, Besançon and Fort-de-France.

* 813: Third Council of Tours: Priests are ordered to preach in the native language of the population.

Individual National-level events, called " National Tours ," are held throughout the racing season.

The buildings of Tours are white with blue slate ( called Ardoise ) roofs ; this style is common in the north of France, while most buildings in the south of France have terracotta roofs.

* Council of Tours: Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics.

* Third Council of Tours: Priests are ordered to preach in the vernacular ( either Vulgar Latin or German ).

These chapels are known as the " Chapels of the Tongues ", and they are devoted to St. Ansgar, patron of Denmark, who is venerated as an apostle to the Scandinavian countries ; St. Boniface, apostle of the Germans ; St. Columba, patron of Ireland and Scotland ; St. Savior ( Holy Savior ), devoted to immigrants from the east, especially Africa and Asia ; St. Martin of Tours, patron of the French ; St. Ambrose, patron of Italy ; and St. James, patron of Spain.

Tours are available for the small museum, and the well-preserved ruins of a crossroads civilisation: in addition to the cultures mentioned above, Motian artifacts display Egyptian, Corinthian, Attic, Roman, Punic and Hellenic influences.

Probably he and his own men did not realize the seriousness of the battle they had fought, as Matthew Bennett and his co-authors, in Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World ( 2005 ) says: " few battles are remembered 1, 000 years after they are fought [...] but the Battle of Tours is an exception [...] Charles Martel turned back a Muslim raid that had it been allowed to continue, might have conquered Gaul.

Both the original props of R2-D2 and C-3PO used in filming are used as audio-animatronics in the queue area of Disneyland's Star Tours ride.

The only significant land mass antipodal to metropolitan France is the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, corresponding to an area north of Montpellier including much of the Cévennes National Park, though the antipodes of the uninhabited Bounty Islands are between Tours, Orléans, and Le Mans, and those of the likewise uninhabited Antipodes Islands are in Normandy, near Saint-Saëns outside of Rouen.

The main pilgrimage sites in the diocese besides the grottos of Marmoutier, are: Notre-Dame-la-Riche, a sanctuary erected on the site of a church dating from the third century, and where the founder St. Gatianus is venerated ; Notre-Dame-de-Loches ; St. Christopher and St. Giles at St-Christophe, a pilgrimage dating from the ninth century ; the pilgrimage to the Oratory of the Holy Face in Tours, managed by Priests of the Holy Face canonically erected on 8 December, 1876.

Tours of the most famous graves are available, but due to vandalism and souvenir hunters visitors are no longer allowed to explore unaccompanied, unless they have a personal connection with the cemetery and thus hold a pass.

Tours of the famous Bundaberg Rum distillery and attractions at the Botanic Gardens are also popular with tourists.

Tours are available most days, and on Sundays there used to be an extended tour, lasting approximately one and a half hours, although this no longer takes place.

Tours are normally on the hour.

Tours are available upon request.

Tours are available.

Bus tours were available from Perth in 1933 with the Hill's Bus Tours offering passengers a tour around the park on Sundays in September.

Tours, recreational accessories and accommodations are readily available.

Tours of Whitman's restored 1920s house are available during museum hours.

Tours are available of locations that resemble the places described in Meyer's books, although the movies were not actually filmed in Forks.

Tours of the Capo Sant ' Andrea grottos are also available.

Tours are available to view collections about the village and surrounding areas.

Tours are available every 30 minutes and free samples are provided.

Tours of the power generation plant and other dam facilities are available for a fee.

Tours are available on schooners.

Tours of the research station are available to the public.

Tours are given mainly to grade school children but are available to the public ( minimum 15 people ) if you contact the school and ask when Wildlife Sanctuary tours are available ( the number is 1-909-594-5611, extension # 4794 ).

Tours are also available, and the fee varies between about $ 40 and $ 100 per person depending on the services provided and route.

Tours of the museum and church are available for a small fee ( being a military facility, the grounds are under military guard and tourists are escorted ).

Tours of Dinorwig power station are available from a purpose built visitor centre.

Tours across the flats and nature reserve are available from the main information centre and are undertaken by local rangers.

Tours of the building are available to the general public.

Tours, lectures and other adult and family programs are regularly available.

From 796 until his death he was Abbot of the great monastery of St. Martin of Tours where he founded a library by obtaining copies of books from libraries in his native England.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Ziad Jarrah and Ahmed al-Haznawi also purchased tickets for the same flight from Passage Tours.

At the end of the work, Bede added a brief autobiographical note ; this was an idea taken from Gregory of Tours ' earlier History of the Franks.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

They range from the one-day road race, criterium, and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour de France and its sister events which make up cycling's Grand Tours.

The outstanding handful of Frankish saints who were not of the Merovingian kinship nor the family alliances that provided Merovingian counts and dukes, deserve a closer inspection for that fact alone: like Gregory of Tours, they were almost without exception from the Gallo-Roman aristocracy in regions south and west of Merovingian control.

* 732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe.

Royal pressure was also brought to bear on Hildebert of Lavardin, whom Honorius had transferred from the see of Le Mans to become the Archbishop of Tours in 1125.

On the other hand, at a synod convened by Louis at Tours in September 1510 the French bishops withdrew from papal obedience, and resolved, with Emperor Maximilian's cooperation, to seek the deposition of the pope.

They chased him from Le Mans to Saumur, losing Tours in the process, before forcing him to acknowledge Richard as his heir.

The earliest known use of the term " transubstantiation " to describe the change from bread and wine to body and blood of Christ that was believed to occur in the Eucharist was by Hildebert de Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours ( died 1133 ), in the eleventh century and by the end of the twelfth century the term was in widespread use.

The earliest known use of the term " transubstantiation " to describe the change from bread and wine to body and blood of Christ was by Hildebert de Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours ( died 1133 ), in about 1079, long before the Latin West, under the influence especially of Thomas Aquinas ( c. 1227-1274 ), accepted Aristotelianism.

In 732 AD, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi and a large army of Muslim horsemen from Al-Andalus advanced 500 km deep into France, and were stopped at Tours by Charles Martel and his infantry igniting the Battle of Tours.

Some men married girls from Tours.

The recent history of Tours is marked by the personality of Jean Royer, who was Mayor for 36 years and helped to save the old town from demolition by establishing one of the first Conservation Areas.

He escaped from the Barnum and Bailey circus during their stay in Tours in 1902.

It takes less than one hour by train from Tours to Paris by TGV and one hour and a half to Charles de Gaulle airport.

In 1849 he started the nightly adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Tours, from where it spread within France.

File: Pont Mirabeau Tours from the rivers north bank. jpg |< center > Looking towards central Tours from the north bank of the River Loire, adjacent to the Pont Mirabeau.

* Tours and its agglomeration on video ( from www. toursmetropole. fr )