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Saint-Doulchard
Saint-Doulchard () is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France along the banks of the Yèvre and the canal de Berry, immediately west of Bourges. Population Notable people * Philippe-Ernest Legrand, French Hellenist was born here in 1866. * Bernard Diomède, French footballer was born here in 1974. * William Bonnet, French racing cyclist was born here in 1982. * Loïc Jacquet, French rugby union player was born here in 1985. * Morgan Sanson, French footballer was born here in 1994. Twin town Saint-Doulchard is twinned with: * Darłowo, Poland See also *Communes of the Cher department The following is a list of the 286 communes of the Cher department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Diomède
Bernard Nicolas Thierry Diomède (born 23 January 1974) is a French football manager and former professional player. He was most recently the manager of the France U20s. He played as a winger and won the World Cup with France in 1998. Early life Diomède was born in Saint-Doulchard, Cher, to parents of Guadeloupean descent. Club career Diomède's career began with AJ Auxerre. After playing at youth level for the club, he made his Division 1 debut in 1992. He played in the first team during eight years, under Guy Roux Auxerre won the Division 1 and Coupe de France double in 1996. The winger scored 30 goals in 175 Ligue 1 matches for Auxerre. In June 2000, Diomède was signed for £3m by then Liverpool F.C. manager Gérard Houllier. Making his debut against Sunderland, Diomède appeared to have scored with an overhead kick, but the goal was not given even though replays showed that the ball had crossed the line. However, he did not settle in England, and only played five matc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Sanson
Morgan Stéphane Sanson (born 18 August 1994) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Nice. Early life Sanson was born in Saint-Doulchard, Cher. Club career Le Mans Ahead of the 2012–13 season, Sanson was promoted to the senior team by manager Denis Zanko and assigned the number 25 shirt. He made his professional debut on 3 August 2012 in a league match against Dijon, replacing Idrissa Sylla with only ten minutes to play. He scored his first league goal on 22 December 2012 against Monaco in a 2–3 home loss. Montpellier On 12 June 2013, Sanson signed a four-year contract with Montpellier for a reported fee of €700,000. He made his debut for the club on 14 September 2013, in a 0–0 draw against Stade de Reims. Marseille On 17 January 2017, Sanson joined south coast rivals Marseille by signing a four-and-a-half-year contract, for an initial fee estimated to be €9 million, plus €3 million in bonuses. On 5 March 2017, he scored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loïc Jacquet
Loïc Jacquet (born 31 March 1985 in Saint-Doulchard, Cher) is a French rugby union player who plays as a lock. He has so far spent his whole professional career in Clermont-Ferrand. Jacquet was the captain of the French team that won the 2006 U21 World Cup. On 18 November 2006 he received his first cap against New Zealand. He played only one other game under Bernard Laporte but was called up by Marc Lièvremont for the first game of the 2008 Six Nations Championship against Scotland. In 2010 he was selected in the French Barbarians squad to play Tonga on 26 November. Honours Clermont *Top 14: 2009–10 *European Challenge Cup: 2006–07 Castres *Top 14 The Top 14 () is a professional rugby union club competition that is played in France. Created in 1892, the Top 14 is at the top of the national league system operated by the National Rugby League (France), France National Rugby League, also ...: 2017–18 References Living people 1985 births ASM Clermont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe-Ernest Legrand
Philippe-Ernest Legrand (2 September 1866. – 1 July 1953. Read « Philippe-Ernest », not Philippe-Emmanuel.) was a French Hellenist. An historian, philologist, archaeologist, epigrapher, his great work was the translation and editing of Histories (Herodotus), published in the Collection Budé, which is still a reference. Career Philippe-Ernest Legrand studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1885 to 1888 and received a doctorate of Letters in 1898; One of his thesis was on Theocritus, and his complementary thesis was entitled '. He taught at the University of Lyon from 1891 until 1926. In 1902, he obtained the chair of Greek philology and epigraphy, and then, from 1920, that of Greek language and literature. He took early retirement in 1926, and settled in the Château de Culan to work on his edition of Herodotus. He was also a member of the French School at Athens between 1888 and 1891 and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 1933. Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darłowo
Darłowo (; ; ) is a seaside town on the Slovincian Coast of north-western Poland, south of the Baltic Sea, with 13,324 inhabitants as of December 2021. Administratively, it is located in Sławno County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. The earliest archaeological signs of a settlement in the area occurred when Roman Empire, Roman merchants travelled along the Amber Road in the hope of trading precious metals like bronze and silver for amber. By the 11th century the location of the later town was already becoming a significant trading point. The settlement received its town rights in 1312. Over the years Dukes of Pomerania constructed a Castle of the Pomeranian Dukes in Darłowo, Ducal Castle called Dirlow on a nearby island and chose it as their seat. It was here that the largest artillery piece in the world, Schwerer Gustav, was constructed and tested by Nazi Germany during World War II. The original medieval outline of Darłowo has been preserved to this day. The Old Town, Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bonnet
William Bonnet (born 25 June 1982) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . In the 2015 Tour de France, Bonnet crashed at full speed on stage 3 near Huy in Belgium after clipping wheels of a rider in front. He has suffered a multiple fracture of the second cervical vertebrae and was rushed to Paris for surgery and placed in an induced coma before any neurological damage was done. Bonnet retired from competition at the end of the 2021 season. Major results ;2000 : 2nd Team pursuit, UCI Junior Track World Championships ;2003 : 4th Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise ;2004 : 1st Paris–Mantes-en-Yvelines : 10th Boucle de l'Artois ;2005 : 1st Stage 1 Paris–Corrèze : 4th Châteauroux Classic : 6th Overall Tour de Normandie : 7th Overall Tour du Limousin : 8th Overall Tour de Picardie : 9th Grand Prix de Denain ;2006 : 3rd Grand Prix de Wallonie : 5th Grand Prix de Fourmies : 7th Grand Prix de Denain : 7th Tro-Bro Léon : 7th Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté D'agglomération Bourges Plus
The Communauté d'agglomération Bourges Plus is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunal structure, centred on the Communes of France, city of Bourges. It is located in the Cher (department), Cher departments of France, department, in the Centre-Val de Loire regions of France, region, central France. It was created 21 October 2002.CA Bourges Plus (N° SIREN : 241800507) BANATIC, accessed 15 October 2024. Its area is 417.3 km2. Its population was 102,679 in 2018, of which 64,668 in Bourges proper.Comparateur de territoire INSEE, acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of The Cher Department
The following is a list of the 286 communes of the Cher department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Périmètre des groupements en 2025 BANATIC. Accessed 28 May 2025. * Communauté d'agglomération Bourges Plus * Communauté de communes Arnon Boischaut Cher * Communauté de communes Berry Grand Sud * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cher (department)
Cher ( ; ; Berrichon: ''Char'') is a department in central France, part of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Named after the river Cher, its prefecture is Bourges. In 2019, it had a population of 302,306.Populations légales 2019: 18 Cher INSEE History Cher is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. Most of it was created, along with the adjacent department of from the former province of Berry. The southeastern corner of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourges
Bourges ( ; ; ''Borges'' in Berrichon) is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre (Cher), Yèvre. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Cher (department), Cher, and also was the capital city of the former provinces of France, province of Berry (province), Berry. History The name of the commune derives either from the Bituriges Cubi, Bituriges, the name of the original inhabitants, or from the Germanic languages, Germanic word ''wikt:burg, Burg'' (French: ''bourg''; Spanish: ''burgo''; English, others: ''burgh'', ''wikt:berg, berg'', or ''borough''), for "hill" or "village". The Celts called it ''Avaricon''; Latin-speakers: ''Avaricum''. In the fourth century BC, as in the time of Julius Caesar, Caesar, the area around it was the center of a Gallic (Celtic) confederacy. In 52 BC, the sixth year of the Gallic Wars, while the Gauls implemented a scorched-earth policy to try to deny Caesar's forces supplies, the inhabitants of Avaricum convinced th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellenistic Period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom. Its name stems from the Ancient Greek word ''Hellas'' (, ''Hellás''), which was gradually recognized as the name for Greece, from which the modern historiographical term ''Hellenistic'' was derived. The term "Hellenistic" is to be distinguished from "Hellenic" in that the latter refers to Greece itself, while the former encompasses all the ancient territories of the period that had come under significant Greek influence, particularly the Hellenized Middle East, after the conquests of Alexander the Great. After the Macedonian conquest of the Achaemenid Empire in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal De Berry
The Canal de Berry () is a disused canal in France which links the Canal latéral à la Loire at Marseilles-lès-Aubigny with the Cher at Noyers rejoining the Loire near Tours. With a branch from Montluçon it provided of canal with locks wide from 1840 until its closure in 1955. There is now a long operational segment with five locks between Selles-sur-Cher and Noyers-sur-Cher. Construction Although discussed from 1484, it was not until 1780 when Armand II-Joseph, 6th Duke of Béthune Charost presented the first solid proposal to the provincial assembly. But work did not start until after an imperial decree in 1809 and was not completed until 1839. The work was designed by Joseph-Michel Dutens French Wiki article and mainly carried out by Spanish prisoners of war in the 1820s. Because of the shortage of water near the summit level at Sancoins, the 96 locks of the canal were built to a gauge of only by , similar to British "narrow canal" practice. Barges built to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
