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Year 1244 (MCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Armand Lunel was a French writer of Provençal Jewish background.
Abraham ben David, also known by the abbreviation RABaDRavad or RABaD III, was a Provençal rabbi, an important commentator on the Talmud, Sefer Halachot of Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi and Mishne Torah of Maimonides, and is regarded as a father of Kabbalah and one of the key links in the chain of Jewish mystics.
Lunel is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. Lunel is located 21 km (13 mi) east of Montpellier and 28 km (17 mi) southwest of Nîmes (Gard). Lunel station has rail connections to Narbonne, Montpellier, Nîmes and Avignon.
The arrondissement of Montpellier is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Hérault département. Its INSEE code is 343 and its capital city, and prefecture of the department, is Montpellier. It has 67 communes. Its population is 683,935 (2016), and its area is 1,004.8 km2 (388.0 sq mi).
Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne (c. 1080-85 – 1158) was a Provençal rabbi, also known as Raavad II, and author of the halachic work Ha-Eshkol.
Gerard of Lunel, also known as Roger of Lunel and as Saint Géri (Gerius), was a French saint. Born to the French nobility, he became a Franciscan tertiary at the age of five.
Folquet de Lunel was a troubadour from Lunel in the Languedoc. He left behind nine recorded lyric poems, including five cansos, two partimens, and two sirventes. He also wrote one longer work, the Romans de mondana vida. Folquet's birth date can be known precisely because he tells us in his Romans, written in 1284, that he was forty years old at the time.
Saint-Félix-de-Lunel is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.
Lunel-Viel is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. Lunel-Viel station has rail connections to Narbonne, Montpellier and Avignon.
Hachmei Provence refers to the hakhams of Provence, now known as Occitania, France that was a great Torah center in the times of the Tosafists. The phrase means "wise ones of Provence"; hakham "wise one, sage" is a Sephardic and Hachmei Provençal term for a rabbi.
Peire Lunel de Montech, also known as Cavalier Lunel or Peire de Lunel, was a lawyer, politician and author of Toulouse. His name indicates he was a knight from Montech.
Magali Lunel is a French television journalist and a tv personality. Lunel has anchored for several rolling news channels in France, including LCI and Infosport. Her amiability and attractiveness brought her to national attention. In May 2008, TF1, France's most widely viewed channel, announced that she would take over as host of the popular tv show Le Droit de Savoir from Charles Villeneuve. Acknowledging a fall in audience figures, the then TF1 President Nonce Paolini said that he hoped the re-launch of the show would act as a boost to the channel's audience figures.
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The canton of Lunel is an administrative division of the Hérault department, southern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Lunel.
The 9th constituency of Hérault is a French legislative constituency in the Hérault département.
Lunel may refer to:
David is a Biblical opera in five acts and twelve scenes by composer Darius Milhaud. The opera uses a Hebrew language libretto by Armand Lunel which is based on the Books of Samuel. The work was commissioned with funds provided by conductor Serge Koussevitzky who died prior to the opera's premiere, and was composed in celebration of the 3,000th anniversary of the founding of the city of Jerusalem by King David; the man who is the subject of the opera. The opera premiered in Jerusalem on June 1, 1954, in a concert version presented as part of the International Society for Contemporary Music's World Music Festival, which while held in Haifa, included the Jerusalem performance of Milhaud's opera. Conductor George Singer led the musical forces for the premiere which was attended by several prominent Israeli figures of the day, including then president Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.