Orléans

:This article is about Orléans, France; for other meanings see Orleans (disambiguation).

Miscellaneous

Births

Orléans was the birthplace of:

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• Étienne Dolet (1509-1546), scholar and printer
• Isaac Jogues (1607-1646), Jesuit missionary
• Robert-Joseph Pothier (1699-1772), jurist
• Stanislas Julien (1797?-1873), orientalist
• Gustave Lanson (1857-1934), historian
• Charles Péguy (1873-1914), poet and essayist
• Raoul Blanchard (1877-1965), geographer

Twin towns

• Dundee, in Scotland.
• Treviso, in Italy
• Münster, in Germany
• Kristiansand, in Norway
• Wichita, Kansas, in the United States
• Tarragona, in Spain
• Saint-Flour, in France
• Utsunomiya, in Japan
• Lugoj, in Romania
• Kraków, in Poland
• Parakou, in Benin