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Skis Rossignol S.A., or simply Rossignol, is a French manufacturer of alpine, snowboard, and Nordic equipment, as well as related outerwear and accessories, located in Isère, France. Rossignol was one of the first companies to produce plastic skis.
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Rossignol: alpine skis, ski jumping skis, cross-country skis, twin tips, ski boots, bindings, snowboards: France: 1907: Introduced one of the first successful all-round fibreglass ski designs. Built a major conglomerate in the 1990s, including Rossignol, Dynastar, Lange, Look, Kerma, and other brands.
Rossignol married Catherine Quentin, the daughter of a nobleman and the niece of a bishop. [6] They had two children, Bonaventure and Marie, and "their marriage was a happy one, full of playfulness and endearments." [7] On his deathbed, Louis XIII told his queen that Rossignol was among the men "most necessary to the good of the state."
Rossignol purchased Garcia's existing tennis production lines and started selling off the other divisions; when Lange skis and Burt bindings failed to find a buyer they were closed down. The same fate awaited Lange boots, but Rossignol's CEO, Laurent Boix-Vives, purchased the company personally through a Swiss holding company, Ski Expansion. [27]
Rossignol died at Anjouan in 1802, but the people refused to believe that their hero had died - it seemed at the time that he had committed suicide of the Fauborg. Rossignol thus survived in souvenirs, and took a position in the legend after the bad 4-volume novel Le Robinson du Faubourg Saint-Antoine .
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