Meudon (French pronunciation: [mødɔ̃] ) is a municipality in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is in the département of Hauts-de-Seine. It...
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Château de Meudon, also known as the Royal Castle of Meudon or Imperial Palace of Meudon, is a French castle in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine. At the edge of...
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Paris Observatory (redirect from Meudon Observatory)
Seine in central Paris, but most of the staff work on a satellite campus in Meudon, a suburb southwest of Paris. The Paris Observatory was founded in 1667...
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Chalais-Meudon is an aeronautical research and development centre in Meudon, to the south-west of Paris. It was originally founded in 1793 in the nearby...
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Meudon is a railway station in Meudon, a southwestern suburb of Paris, France. It is on the Paris–Brest railway. It is served by Transilien trains from...
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Versailles rail accident (redirect from Meudon Railway Catastrophe)
On 8 May 1842, a train crashed in the cutting between Meudon and Bellevue stations on the railway between Versailles and Paris, France. The train was travelling...
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François Rabelais (redirect from Cure of Meudon)
In 1547, he became curate of Saint-Christophe-du-Jambet in Maine and of Meudon near Paris. With support from members of the prominent du Bellay family...
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The canton of Meudon is an administrative division of the Hauts-de-Seine department, in northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton...
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woods and the countryside near Paris. In 1893, Rodin moved with her to Meudon, at No. 8 Scribe Road, in the House of Chiens-Loups.[citation needed] Beuret...
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first volume of the Annales de l'observatoire de Meudon was published by him in 1896. (see also Meudon Great Refractor) Janssen was the President of the...
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Meudon Great Refractor (also known as the Grande Lunette) is a double telescope with lenses (83 cm + 62 cm), in Meudon, France. It is a twin refracting...
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Le Chemin, Paysage à Meudon also known as Paysage avec personage, is an oil on canvas painted in 1911 by the artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes...
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esteemed for his magnificent collection of art at Versailles and Meudon. Louis XIV purchased Meudon for him from the widow of Louvois. The Dauphin employed Jules...
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(24 July 1853 – 15 January 1948) was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories, who carried out intensive studies on the behaviour...
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rejoined SAF in 1909. That same year, Henri Deslandres, Director of the Meudon Observeratory, provided him with access to the Grande Lunette (83-cm Great...
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The Craie de Meudon is a geologic formation in France. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. Earth sciences portal France portal Paleontology...
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Musée Rodin (section Musée Rodin in Meudon)
well as just outside Paris at Rodin's old home, the Villa des Brillants at Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine. The collection includes 6,600 sculptures, 8,000 drawings...
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The Meudon Formation is a geologic formation in France. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period. Earth sciences portal France portal Paleontology...
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South America. At the time of his birth, his family resided in the town of Meudon where Saint-Maximin grew up playing football, mainly on the streets with...
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ISSN 0395-2037. "Législatives : vos nouveaux députés" (in French). Meudon: Ville de Meudon. Retrieved 24 July 2022. "Née de parents mauriciens, elle est candidate...
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The Battle of Meudon took place on 3 April 1871 between the Paris Commune and Versaillais government forces near Meudon in the Île-de-France. The battle...
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Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte (redirect from Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Prince Français, Count of Meudon, Count of Moncalieri ad personam, titular 3rd Prince of Montfort)
Napoleon III in 1852, he was also 2nd Prince of Montfort, 1st Count of Meudon and Count of Moncalieri, following his marriage with Maria Clotilde of Savoy...
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Solar Observatory Tower Meudon is a 36.47 metre tall tower built of reinforced concrete on the area of Meudon Observatory in Meudon, France, which has in...
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Antoine Sanguin (redirect from Antoine Sanguin de Meudon)
courtier and Cardinal. He was the second son of Antoine Sanguin, Seigneur de Meudon and Maître des Eaux-Forêts de l'Isle de France, Champagne et Brie; and Marie...
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Windsor Locks, Connecticut. The US Navy also operated a T-2 type Chalais-Meudon airship Capitaine Caussin. The Capitaine Caussin was operated for training...
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in force. In 1890, Pierre Janssen, an astronomer and the director of the Meudon astrophysical observatory, considered the construction of an observatory...
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stage name. She attended a bilingual alternative school, La Source, in Meudon. Her father gave Poésy her first acting job when she was a child; then she...
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77, at his villa in Meudon, Île-de-France, on the outskirts of Paris. A cast of The Thinker was placed next to his tomb in Meudon; it was Rodin's wish...
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for Madame de Pompadour in 1750. It was constructed on a broad plateau in Meudon, above a slope overlooking the Seine to the east, but was demolished in...
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Israel," Calgary Sunday Sun 25 Jan. 1998: S7 "Ville de Meudon - Villes jumelles". Ville de Meudon. Archived from the original on 2013-05-07. Retrieved 2013-07-29...
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