Royal 22nd Regiment de vainqueur"; Refrain: "Vaillants soldats, vos noms dans notre histoire." Royal 22nd Regiment The Royal 22nd Regiment (R22R), or rather the Royal 22 Régiment in both English and French correct usage, and colloquially in English The Van Doos (representing an anglicized pronunciation of the French for twenty-two, "vingt-deux"), or, in French, le Vingt-deuxième, is an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. The mostly francophone regiment comprises three Regular Force battalions, two Primary Reserve battalions, and a band, making it the largest regiment in the Canadian Army. The "maison-mère" or home of the regiment is La Citadelle in Quebec City and
Deux-Sèvres Ré Airport) and Nantes (Nantes Atlantique Airport). Famous births in the "département": Famous people related to the "département": Deux-Sèvres Deux-Sèvres () is a French department. "Deux-Sèvres" literally means "two Sèvres": the Sèvre Nantaise and the Sèvre Niortaise are two rivers which have their sources in the department. "Deux-Sèvres" was one of the 83 original "départements" created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. Departmental borders were changed in 1973 when the inhabitants of the little commune of became formally associated with the rapidly growing adjacent commune of Cholet. Cholet is in the neighbouring department of Maine-et-Loire. In order to