Fleury
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Fleury can refer to:
  • Abbo of Fleury
    Abbo of Fleury
    Abbo of Fleury , also known as Abbon or Saint Abbo was a monk, and later abbot, of the Benedictine monastery of Fleury sur Loire near Orléans, France....

     (c.950 – 1004) abbot of the monastery of Fleury
  • Andrew of Fleury
    Andrew of Fleury
    Andrew of Fleury was a Christian monk and contemporary historian of the Peace and Truce of God movements.A Benedictine at Fleury Abbey, Andrew's chief work was Miracula sancti Benedicti , written c.1043...

    , historian from the monstery of Fleury
  • Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus (1653—1743), chief minister of Louis XV of France
  • Claude Fleury
    Claude Fleury
    Claude Fleury , was a French ecclesiastical historian.Destined for the bar, he was educated at the aristocratic College of Clermont . In 1658 he was nominated an advocate to the parlement of Paris, and for nine years followed the legal profession...

     (1640 – 1723), French historian
  • Fleury Mesplet
    Fleury Mesplet
    Fleury Mesplet was a French-born Canadian printer.Born in Marseille and apprenticed in Lyon, he emigrated to London in 1773 where he set up shop in Covent Garden. In 1774 he emigrated to Philadelphia; it is thought that he may have been persuaded to do so by Benjamin Franklin...

     (1734 – 1794), French-Canadian printer
  • Abraham-joseph Bénard
    Abraham-joseph Bénard
    Fleury [Abraham Joseph Bénard] , French actor of the Comédie-Française, was one of the greatest comedians of his time. He was born at Chartres, and began his stage apprenticeship at Nancy, where his father was at the head of a company of actors attached to the court of Stanisław Leszczyński...

     (1750 – 1822), French actor of the Comédie-Française and one of the greatest comedians of his time.
  • Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
    Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
    Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury was a French painter.Born in Cologne, he was sent by his family to Paris, and after travelling in Italy returned to France and made his first appearance at the Salon in 1824; his reputation, however, was not established until three years later, when he exhibited Tasso...

     (1797 – 1890), French painter
  • Louis Fleury
    Louis Fleury
    Louis Fleury was a French flautist, pupil of Paul Taffanel at the Paris Conservatoire. Claude Debussy dedicated the piece for solo flute Syrinx to him, and Fleury performed the première. Fleury was a pioneer in the rediscovery of many forgotten Baroque flute compositions, and in commissioning new...

     (1878 – 1926), French flautist
  • Paul A. Fleury
    Paul A. Fleury
    Paul Aimé Fleury is an American physicist and academic administrator. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Yale University and is the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics and Professor of Physics....

     (born 1939), American physicist and academic administrator
  • Theoren Fleury
    Theoren Fleury
    Theoren Wallace "Theo" Fleury is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers, and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League , Tappara of Finland's SM-liiga, and the Belfast Giants of the UK's Elite Ice Hockey League...

     (born 1968), Former Canadian hockey player
  • Marc Fleury
    Marc Fleury
    Marc Fleury is the creator of JBoss, an open-source Java application server.Fleury holds a degree in mathematics and a Doctorate in physics from the École Polytechnique in Paris and a Master in Theoretical Physics from the École Normale...

     (born 1968), French software developer
  • Amber Fleury
    Amber Fleury
    Amber Fleury was the eighth-place finisher in the third season of Canadian Idol, which aired during the summer of 2005. A native of Roblin, Manitoba, Amber now calls Calgary, Alberta home, where she is a paralegal.-Canadian Idol:...

     (born 1979), a contestant on Canadian Idol
  • Marc-Andre Fleury
    Marc-Andre Fleury
    Marc-André Fleury is a French Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League...

     (born 1984), Canadian hockey player
  • Mathieu Fleury
    Mathieu Fleury
    Mathieu Fleury is the Ottawa city councillor of Rideau-Vanier Ward. He won the ward in the Ottawa municipal election, 2010, defeating the incumbent Georges Bédard in a narrow contest....

     (born 1985), Canadian politician
  • Champfleury
    Champfleury
    Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson , who wrote under the name Champfleury, was a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction.In 1843 Fleury-Husson moved to Paris...

     Jules Fleury-Husson (1821 – 1889) French novelist and critic
  • Fleury Playbook
    Fleury Playbook
    The Fleury Playbook is a medieval collection of Latin biblical dramas dating from around 1200 AD. It was included in a composite volume of sermons, biblical texts, liturgical dramas, and hymns that was bound and kept at the library of Abbaye Saint Benoît de Fleury, a Benedictine monastery at...

    , an 13th century manuscript of liturgical drama
    Liturgical drama
    Liturgical drama or religious drama, in its various Christian contexts, originates from the mass itself, and usually presents a relatively complex ritual that includes theatrical elements...

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  • Several communes of France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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    • Fleury, Aisne
      Fleury, Aisne
      Fleury is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France....

    • Fleury, Aude
      Fleury, Aude
      Fleury is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.-Population:...

    • Fleury, Manche
      Fleury, Manche
      Fleury is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France....

    • Fleury, Moselle
      Fleury, Moselle
      Fleury is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.-Geography:The village is sited on a wooded plateau, high above the river Seille...

    • Fleury, Oise
      Fleury, Oise
      Fleury is a small village in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune within the département of Oise....

    • Fleury, Pas-de-Calais
      Fleury, Pas-de-Calais
      Fleury is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:A small farming village situated northwest of Arras, on the D98 road.-Population:-References:* -External links:*...

    • Fleury, Somme
      Fleury, Somme
      Fleury is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.-Geography:Fleury is situated on the D920 road, on the banks of the river Selle, some southwest of Amiens.-Population:-External links:*...


  • and part of the name of several communes:
    • Fleury-devant-Douaumont
      Fleury-devant-Douaumont
      Fleury-devant-Douaumont is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.Since the end of the Battle of Verdun in 1916, when it had been captured and recaptured by the Germans and French 16 times, it has been unoccupied along with Bezonvaux, Beaumont-en-Verdunois,...

    • Fleury-en-Bière
      Fleury-en-Bière
      Fleury-en-Bière is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north central France.-External links:* * *...

    • Fleury-la-Forêt
      Fleury-la-Forêt
      Fleury-la-Forêt is a commune in the Eure department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Population:-References:*...

    • Fleury-la-Montagne
      Fleury-la-Montagne
      Fleury-la-Montagne is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.-References:*...

    • Fleury-la-Rivière
      Fleury-la-Rivière
      Fleury-la-Rivière is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.-See also:*Communes of the Marne department...

    • Fleury-la-Vallée
      Fleury-la-Vallée
      Fleury-la-Vallée is a commune in the Yonne department in Burgundy in north-central France.-References:*...

    • Fleury-les-Aubrais
      Fleury-les-Aubrais
      Fleury-les-Aubrais is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-External links:*...

    • Fleury-Mérogis
      Fleury-Mérogis
      Fleury-Mérogis is a commune in the Essonne department in northern France, in the southern suburbs of Paris. The commune has the Fleury-Mérogis Prison, France's and Europe's largest prison.Inhabitants of Fleury-Mérogis are known as Floriacumois....

    • Fleury-sur-Andelle
      Fleury-sur-Andelle
      Fleury-sur-Andelle is a commune in the Eure department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Population:-References:*...

    • Fleury-sur-Loire
      Fleury-sur-Loire
      Fleury-sur-Loire is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.-Demographics:At the 1999 census, the population was 263. On 1 January 2007, the estimate was 240.-References:*...

    • Fleury-sur-Orne
      Fleury-sur-Orne
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  • Transmitter Fleury is a communications mast in Aisne, France
  • fleury is also a term used in Heraldry, as in "a cross fleury"
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