Neauphle-le-Château ( French pronunciation: [nofl lə ʃɑto] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France .
5-488: Constructions Aéronautiques Maurice Brochet was a French manufacturer of light aircraft established by Maurice Brochet (18 June 1899 – 16 June 1969) in Neauphle-le-Château in 1947. Initially, the firm sold plans for light aircraft of Brochet's own designs to amateur constructors, but gradually undertook more and more aircraft construction, with its final designs not marketed for homebuilding at all. During
10-587: Is now renamed after the village. The small town/big village of Kahak south of the city of Qom was also renamed "Nufeloshato" in the memory of the French village. The property where he lived, at the corner of the Chevreuse Road and Jardins Path has long been fenced off and locked and the former dwelling is now destroyed. It was also the home of Deanna Durbin , a Hollywood actress, until her death on April 17, 2013. The writer Marguerite Duras lived here in
15-607: The early 1950s, Brochet sold some 58 light planes of eight designs to the French government for distribution to the country's aeroclubs. Maurice Brochet built the MB.10 and the MB.20 gliders in the 1930s. The latter became the Avia 50 motorized glider. He also built three units of the MB.30 monoplane with parasol wing in 1934 before opening the Brochet factory. The aircraft produced in series by
20-471: The factory after WW II were the following: Neauphle-le-Ch%C3%A2teau Neauphle-le-Château gained international fame in 1978 when, on October 8, Iranian Islamic leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini rented and moved into a house there following his exile by the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the midst of the Iranian Revolution , and after being deported from Iraq where he
25-805: Was taking refuge amongst the Shi'a community. The Ayatollah continued to reside there until the following year when he returned to Iran following the collapse of the Shah's regime and later became Iran's Supreme Leader . Due to the Ayatollah's time residing in Neauphle-le-Château, the street in Tehran on which the French Embassy in Iran is located and was previously known as Faranseh (France) street,
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