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Auvergne terrain map. Auvergne is known for its mountain ranges and dormant volcanoes. Together the Monts Dore and the Chaîne des Puys include 80 volcanoes. The Puy de Dôme is the highest volcano in the region, with an altitude of 1,465 metres (4,806 ft).
Averoigne is a fictional counterpart of a historical province in France, detailed in a series of short stories by the American writer Clark Ashton Smith. Smith may have based Averoigne on the actual province of Auvergne , [ 1 ] but its name was probably influenced by the French department of Aveyron , immediately south of Auvergne, due to the ...
Christianized by Saint Austremoine, Auvergne was quite prosperous during the Roman period. After a short time under the Visigoths, it was conquered by the Franks in 507. During the earlier medieval period, Auvergne was a county within the duchy of Aquitaine and from time to time part of the "Angevin Empire".
There had been local interest in motorsport racing beginning with proposals in 1908 for a race on a street circuit, although the proposals were never enacted. [1] Efforts were renewed after the Second World War when the President of the Sports Association of the Automobile Club of Auvergne, Jean Auchatraire, and accomplished racer Louis Rosier designed a course by adapting pre-existing roads ...
The fighting opposed the 400-strong SS Panzergrenadiers Training Battalion 18, which was sent to France on 22 June 1944 and reached Vichy on 29 June. The troops were divided among Thiers, Randan , Saint-Yorre , Le Mayet-de-Montagne , the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) of the 103rd FFI battalion (led by Major André Rossignol, known as ...
The Château de Chavaniac aka Chateau Lafayette [1] [2] [3] is a fortified manor house of eighteen rooms furnished in the Louis XIII style located in Chavaniac-Lafayette, Haute-Loire, in Auvergne province, France. Flanked by two towers of black stone, it was built in the 14th century and was the birthplace of General Lafayette in 1757.
During the Hundred Years' War Auvergne faced numerous raids and revolts, including the Tuchin Revolt. In 1424 the Duchy of Auvergne passed to the House of Bourbon. Quite contemporaneously, the County of Auvergne passed to the House of La Tour d'Auvergne, and upon its extinction in 1531 it passed to Catherine de' Medici before becoming a royal ...
When war between Richard the Lionheart and Philip II broke out again in the summer of 1196, Lionheart now asked Count Guy and Dauphin Robert to support him in battle. Both refused, because Lionheart had previously abandoned them. Philip II August of France in combat with Guy II, Count of Auvergne. (British Library, Royal 16 G VI f. 369v)