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Villefranche-sur-Saône (US: / ˌ v iː l (ə) ˈ f r ɒ̃ ʃ s ʊər ˈ s oʊ n /, [3] French: [vilfʁɑ̃ʃ syʁ son] ⓘ; Arpitan: Velafranche) is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.
Jacques-Melchior Villefranche (1829–1904), French Catholic publicist; Villefranche XIII Aveyron, semi-professional rugby league football club from Villefranche-de-Rouergue; Villefranche – Tarare Airport (IATA: XVF), the airport of Villefranche-sur-Saône
[1] [2] After Leopold's death, Blanche Delacroix was evicted, and his nephew, King Albert I, became its owner. During World War I, it was used as a military hospital. In 1919, Thérèse Vitali, Comtesse de Beauchamp, acquired the property and commissioned modifications. Ogden Codman, Jr. purchased the dozen existing structures that made up the ...
Typical runup heights were 3–8 meters (9.8–26.2 ft). 1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia ; all 229 people on board are killed. 1998 – The UN 's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu , the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda , guilty of nine counts of genocide .
There are several lighthouses in the U.S. state of Texas, including several listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] Not every lighthouse in Texas is listed here as some have very little information known about them. Saluria, and Swash lights for example were built right before the civil war and were both destroyed by confederate ...
Events. 1862 – American Civil War: United States President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
Here is a closer look at the people filling the top jobs in his administration. ... from the Texas A&M University with a degree in agriculture development and later obtained her law degree from ...
The Château de Villefranche is a castle and stately home in the commune of Villeneuve-lès-Bouloc in the Haute-Garonne département of France. Originally built in the 16th century, it was transformed in the 18th and 19th centuries.