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ALAIS , a See also:town of See also:southern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Gard, 25 M. N.N.W. of See also:Nimes on the See also:Paris-See also:Lyon railway, on which it is an important junction. Pop. (Igoe) 18,987. The town is situated at the See also:foot of the See also:Cevennes, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Gardon, which See also:half surrounds it. The streets are wide and its promenades and See also:fine See also:plane-trees make the town attractive; but the public buldings, the See also:chief of which are the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Jean, a heavy See also:building of the 18th See also:century, and the citadel, which serves as See also:barracks and See also:prison, are of small See also:interest. See also:Pasteur prosecuted his investigations into the See also:silk-See also:worm disease at Alais, and the town has dedicated a bust to his memory. There is also a statue of the chemist J. B. See also:Dumas. Alais has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a See also:board of See also:trade-arbitrators, a lycee and a school of mines. The town is one of the most important markets for raw silk and cocoons in the See also:south of France, and the Gardon supplies See also:power to numerous silk-See also:mills. It is also the centre of a See also:mineral See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, which yields large quantities of See also:coal, See also:iron, See also:zinc and See also:lead; its blast-furnaces, foundries, See also:glass-See also:works and See also:engineering works afford employment to many workmen.
In the r6th century Alais was an important Huguenot centre. In 1629 the town was taken by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIII., and by the See also:peace of Alais the See also:Huguenots gave up their right to places de siirete (See also:garrison towns) and other privileges. A bishopric was established there in 1694 but suppressed in 1790.
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