Théophile Malo Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne was a French officer named by Napoleon as the "first grenadier of France". He was also a celtomaniac antiquarian who introduced the words "dolmen" and "menhir" into general archaeological usage.
Aurillac is the prefecture of the Cantal department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aurillacois or Aurillacoises.
Louise of Savoy was a French noble and regent, Duchess suo jure of Auvergne and Bourbon, Duchess of Nemours, and the mother of King Francis I. She was politically active and served as the regent of France in 1515, in 1525–1526 and in 1529.
Auvergne is a former administrative region in central France, comprising the four departments of Allier, Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal and Haute-Loire. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
The history of the Auvergne dates back to the early Middle Ages, when it was a historic province in south central France. It was originally the feudal domain of the Counts of Auvergne.
Nicolas-Louis d'Assas (1733–1760), also known as Louis d'Assas du Mercou and Chevalier d'Assas, was a captain of the French Régiment d'Auvergne, whose celebrity depends on a single act of defiance.
Gare de Paris Bercy, officially Gare de Paris Bercy Bourgogne - Pays d'Auvergne, is one of the seven mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. It handles about 4.3 million passengers annually according to the estimates of the SNCF, making it the least busy mainline station in Paris.
Le Béage is a commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southern France.
La Tour-d'Auvergne is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.
Annecy station is a railway station located in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, south-eastern France. The station was opened in 1866 and is located on the Aix-les-Bains–Annemasse railway and the now closed Annecy-Albertville railway. The train services are operated by SNCF. In December 2012 a new multimodal interchange between bus services and the train station was opened.
Aurillac station is a French railway station in Aurillac, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The station is located on the Figeac–Arvant railway line. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by the SNCF.
The Régiment d'Auvergne was a regiment of the French army during the ancien régime.
Philippe d'Auvergne was a British naval officer and the adopted son of Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne the sovereign Duke of Bouillon. He chose a career in the Royal Navy that spanned a period of history where Great Britain was at the centre of wars and empire building and took him from Boston and the War of Independence to espionage with French Royalists; prisoner of war to shipwrecked; all this whilst hoping to become a Walloon ruler or, at least, heir to a princely fortune.
Ambérieu station or Ambérieu-en-Bugey station is a railway station serving the town Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Ain department, eastern France. It is situated on the Lyon–Geneva railway, Mâcon-Ambérieu railway and Ambérieu-Montalieu-Vercieu railway. The train services are operated by SNCF.
La Tour is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes. The new region came into effect on 1 January 2016, after the regional elections in December 2015.
Beynost station is a French railway station located in commune of Beynost, Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is located at kilometric point (KP) 20.966 on the Lyon-Geneva railway.
The 92nd Infantry Regiment is a unit of the French Army. Tracing its descent from a unit of Irish troops in French service established in 1661, it received its regimental number in 1790. Since 1881 the unit has been garrisoned at Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The regiment fought at the battles of Verdun and the Somme in the First World War and in the Battle of France in 1940. The unit was revived in 1944 as a unit of the Maquis. In recent years it has served on Opération Chammal in Iraq and on Operation Barkhane in Chad and Mali.
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