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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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EV34 Cedric Leyrat (born 1978), an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in Meudon. JPL · 8466 8467 Benoîtcarry 1981 ES35 Benoît Carry (born 1983), a Research...
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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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verrerie de Meudon (ca. 1902) Bateau-lavoir au Bas-Meudon (1910) L’étang de Trivaux L'île Seguin vue de Meudon Sentier du bois de Meudon sous la neige...
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ONERA's historic roots are in the Paris suburb of Meudon, south of Paris. As early as 1877, the Chalais-Meudon site hosted an aeronautical research center for...
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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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Vallourec S.A. is a multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Meudon, France. Vallourec specializes in hot rolled seamless steel tubes, expandable...
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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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