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People

Pierre de Thury Pierre de Thury (died 9 December 1410) was a French bishop and cardinal of the Avignon Obedience, who served as a royal secretary and Master of Requests, and then as papal Nuncio and Apostolic Legate on several occasions. He participated in two ...

( -1410), said the cardinal Maillezais, a French cardinal of the Avignon Obedience, see

Council of Pisa The Council of Pisa was a controversial ecumenical council of the Catholic Church held in 1409. It attempted to end the Western Schism by deposing Benedict XIII (Avignon) and Gregory XII (Rome) for schism and manifest heresy. The College of ...

*György Thury (1519-1571), a Hungarian nobleman ( hu) *

Louis-Pierre Thury Louis-Pierre Thury (c. 1644, Notre Dame de Breuil en Auge ( Department of Calvados), France-June 3, 1699, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a French missionary (secular priest) who was sent to North America during the time of King William's War. He was ...

(died in 1699), French missionary priest in Acadia *

César-François Cassini de Thury César-François Cassini de Thury (17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784), also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer. Biography Cassini de Thury was born in Thury-sous-Clermont, in the Oise departme ...

(1714-1784), French geographer *

Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury Louis-Étienne François Héricart-Ferrand, vicomte de Thury, ( Paris, 3 June 1776 – Rome, 15 January 1854) was a French politician and man of science. He was a mining engineer who produced more than 350 scholarly articles; was a member of n ...

(1776–1854), French scientist and politician *

René Thury René Thury (7 August 1860 – 23 April 1938) was a Swiss pioneer in electrical engineering. He was known for his work with high voltage direct current electricity transmission and was known in the professional world as the "King of DC." Bi ...

(1860-1938), a Swiss engineer

Toponyms

France

Thury, Côte-d'Or Thury () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Côte-d'Or department The following is a list of the 698 communes of the Côte-d'Or department of France. The communes cooperate ...

, in the Côte-d'Or (département) *

Thury, Yonne Thury () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, in the natural region of Forterre. Its inhabitants are called ''Thurycois'' and ''Thurycoises''. Name Thury's is attested as ''Tauriacus'' ...

, in the Yonne (département) *

Thury-en-Valois Thury-en-Valois () is a commune in the Oise department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), ...

, in the Oise (département) *

Thury-Harcourt Thury-Harcourt () is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom. The town is south of Caen, in the Orne valley. It i ...

, in the Calvados (département) *

Thury-sous-Clermont Thury-sous-Clermont (, literally ''Thury under Clermont'') is a commune in the Oise department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military ...

, in the Oise (département) *

La Villeneuve-sous-Thury La Villeneuve-sous-Thury (, literally ''La Villeneuve under Thury'') is a commune in the Oise department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government a ...

, French commune in the Oise (département)

Engineering

*Abbreviation for Thury-System, an outdated mechanical HVDC-system developed by René Thury {{disambiguation, surname