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18-585: (Redirected from Du Gard ) [REDACTED] Look up Gard , gard , or gård in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gard is a département located in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It may also refer to: Places [ edit ] Places in France [ edit ] Pont du Gard , a Roman aqueduct bridge Vers-Pont-du-Gard ,

36-762: A commune in the Gard department Rochefort-du-Gard , a commune in the Gard department Saint-Jean-du-Gard , a commune in the Gard department Castillon-du-Gard , a commune in the Gard department Saint-Gilles-du-Gard , a commune in the Gard department Saint-Bonnet-du-Gard , a commune in the Gard department Saint-Mamert-du-Gard , a commune in the Gard department Gard, alternate name for Gardon , French river Places in Scandinavia [ edit ] Enskede gård , community in Söderort, Stockholm, Sweden Hässelby gård , suburban district west of Stockholm belonging to

54-549: A son of Nór Other [ edit ] Assuranceforeningen Gard , marine insurance company Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center , a program of the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Gard model for prebiotic evolution. See also [ edit ] Gord (disambiguation) Garde (disambiguation) Gart (disambiguation) Grad (disambiguation) Dugard (disambiguation) Guard (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

72-1040: A tributary of the river Jijia in Romania Gard (Slavic toponymy) , Slavic toponym Gard, Illinois , unincorporated community, United States People [ edit ] Surname [ edit ] Alex Gard (1898–1948), Russian cartoonist Cătălin-Ionuț Gârd (born 1981), Romanian tennis player Charlie Gard (2016–2017), British infant; subject of parental rights and life support cases George E. Gard (1843–1904), American police chief and sheriff Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard (1927–2017), French athlete John Gard (born 1963), American politician Léon Gard (1901–1979), French painter and art critic Lewis Gard (born 1999), English footballer Mike Gard (born 1952), Australian politician Phil Gard (1947–1990), New Zealand rugby union player Robert G. Gard Jr. , American military strategist Robert Gard (tenor) , 1927–2021, Australian operatic tenor Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958), French author and winner of

90-528: Is Nîmes , the prefecture. As of 2019, there are eight communes that have more than 10,000 inhabitants each: In the closely contested first round of the 2012 presidential election , Gard was the only department to vote for the National Front candidate Marine Le Pen by a slim plurality, with 25.51% of the vote. The incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement party received 24.86% of

108-422: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gard The department is named after the river Gardon . In recent decades of the 21st century, local administration and French speakers have returned to the original Occitan name of the river, Gard ( Occitan pronunciation: [gaɾ] ). It is part of a revival of Occitan culture. In classical times

126-492: Is evident in his work. He is best known for The Thibaults , a multi-volume roman fleuve which follows the fortunes of two brothers, Antoine and Jacques Thibault, from their upbringing in a prosperous Catholic bourgeois family to the end of the World War I . Six parts of the novel were published between 1922 and 1929. After abandoning a seventh volume in manuscript, he published two more volumes in 1936 and 1940. Written under

144-498: The 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature . Trained as a paleographer and archivist, he brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for detail, and because of his concern with documentation and the relationship of social reality to individual development, his fiction has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century. His sympathy for the humanist socialism and pacifism of Jean Jaurès

162-482: The Mediterranean Sea . The highest point in the department is Mont Aigoual . In the first quarter of the 21st century, the department has suffered serious flooding . The region has also been subject to some of the highest recorded temperatures in France's history as climate change alters summer heat. Population development since 1791: The inhabitants of Gard are called "Gardois" . The most populous commune

180-462: The 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature Toby Gard (born 1972), English computer game character designer and consultant Trevor Gard (born 1957), English cricketer Warren Gard (1873–1929), American attorney, prosecutor, jurist and politician William Du Gard (1606–1662), English schoolmaster and printer; see William Dugard Given name [ edit ] Gard Kvale (born 1984), Norwegian swimmer Gard Agdi , Norse mythological figure;

198-551: The Gard area was settled by Romans and their allies. They built the Via Domitia across the region in 118 BC. Centuries later, on 4 March 1790, Gard was one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution . It comprised the ancient province of Languedoc . Originally this department was to include the canton of Ganges , but Ganges was transferred to the neighbouring department of Hérault . In return, Gard

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216-871: The Hässelby-Vällingby borough Skarpnäcks gård , district (stadsdel) in Skarpnäck in Stockholm Municipality, Sweden Erichsens Gård , now part of Bornholms Museum Grönvik gård , mansion in the village of Grönvik, Korsholm municipality in Western Finland Smådalarö Gård , inn located at Dalarö in Stockholm archipelago (Stockholm, Sweden) Leangen Gård Farm Gård , definition of every farm or larger country home in Denmark and Sweden. Places in other countries [ edit ] Gard,

234-462: The famous Roman aqueduct , the Pont du Gard . Gard is also home to the source of Perrier , a carbonated mineral water sold both in France and internationally on a large scale. The spring and facility are located just south-east of the commune of Vergèze . Roger Martin du Gard Roger Martin du Gard ( French: [dy gaʁ] ; 23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of

252-409: The improved market access provided by the railways also encouraged, initially, a rapid growth in wine growing. But many winegrowers were ruined when the vineyards were infected with phylloxera in 1872. Gard is part of the region of Occitanie and is surrounded by the departments of Hérault , Lozère , Aveyron , Bouches-du-Rhône , Vaucluse and Ardèche . It has a short coastline to the south on

270-422: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gard . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gard_(disambiguation)&oldid=1158061562 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

288-676: The shadow of the darkening international situation in Europe in the 1930s, these last parts, which together are longer than the previous six combined, focus on the political and historical situation leading up to the outbreak of the First World War and bring the story to 1918. Du Gard wrote several other novels, including Jean Barois , which was set against the historical context of the Dreyfus affair . During World War II , he resided in Nice , where he prepared

306-743: The vote, while Socialist candidate François Hollande received 24.11% of the vote share. The President of the Departmental Council has been Françoise Laurent-Perrigot of the Socialist Party (PS) since 2021. In the 2022 legislative election , Gard elected the following representatives to the National Assembly : Gard contains a part of the Cévennes National Park . There are important Roman architectural remains in Nîmes , as well as

324-523: Was assigned the fishing port of Aigues Mortes , which gave the department its own outlet to the Gulf of Lion on the Mediterranean Sea. During the middle of the nineteenth century the prefecture , traditionally a centre of commerce with a manufacturing sector focused on textiles, was an early beneficiary of railway development, becoming an important railway junction. Several luxurious hotels were built, and

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