Contes D’un Buveur De Bière
Contes may refer to: * Contes, Alpes-Maritimes, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in France * Contes, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in France See also * Conte (other) Conte may refer to: * Conte (literature), a literary genre * Conte (surname) * Conté, a drawing medium * Conte, Jura, town in France * Conté royal family, a fictional family in Tamora Pierce's Tortallan world * Conte, the title of Count in Italy ...

Contes, Alpes-Maritimes
Contes (; oc, Còntes) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in south-eastern France. Its inhabitants are ''Contois''. Because the village sounds like the French word ''comte'', the aristocratic title count, it called itself ''Point Libre'' during the revolutionary period. Famous sons of Contes are Henri Charpentier, a chef who studied under Escoffier, Camous and Ritz. He worked for some of the most famous restaurants in Paris and then emigrated to the United States where he would open restaurants in New York and Los Angeles. The other, Humbert Ricolfi was actually a classmate of Charpentier and went on to become Minister of Finance for the Republique. He financed the Maginot Line and is remembered as an upholder of the great ideals of the French Republique. It was probably mentioned in an ancient inscription DEO EGOMONI CVNTINO VIC CVN P. Geography Contes is a commune in the Southeast of France. It is located on Pail ...
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Contes, Pas-de-Calais
Contes () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography The rivers Canche and Planquette The river Planquette () is one of the small streams that flow from the plateau of the southern Boulonnais and Picardy, into the Canche. Its length is . The river rises at Planques and passes Fressin Fressin () is a commune in the Pas-de-Ca ... converge at Contes. Population See also * Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References External links Contes sur le site du Quid Communes of Pas-de-Calais Artois {{PasdeCalais-geo-stub ...
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