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ancient ramparts have been destroyed, and it is now surroundedby boulevards, outside which run branches of the Therain. In addition, there are spacious promenades in the See also:

north-See also:

east of the town. Its See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral of St See also:

PIERRE

Pierre, in some respects the most daring achievement of See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, consists only of a See also:

TRANSEPT (from Lat. trans, across, and septum, enclosure; synonymous terms in other languages are Fr. croisee, nef transversee; Ital. crociata; Ger. Querbau, Quersch&)

transept and See also:

CHOIR (0. Fr. cuer from Lat. chorus; pronounced quire, and until the end of the 17th century so spelt, the spelling being altered to agree with the Fr. chceur)

choir with See also:

apse and seven apse-chapels. The vaulting in the interior exceeds 150 ft. in height. The small Romanesque See also:

church of the loth See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century known as the Basse-(Euvre occupies the site destined for the See also:

NAVE

nave. Begun in 1247, the See also:

WORK

work was interrupted in 1284 by the collapse of the vaulting of the choir, in 1573 by the fall of a too ambitious central See also:

TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower, after which little addition was made. The transept was built from 1500 to 1548.

Its facades, especially that on the See also:

south, exhibit all the richness of the See also:

LATE

late Gothic See also:

style. The carved wooden doors of both the north and the south portals are See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master-pieces respectively of Gothic and See also:

RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance workmanship. The church possesses an elaborate astronomical See also:

CLOCK

clock (1866) and tapestries of the 15th and 17th centuries; but its See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

ARTISTIC

artistic treasures are stained See also:

glass windows of the 13th, 14th and 16th centuries, the most beautiful of them from the See also:

hand of the Renaissance artist, Engrand Le See also:

Prince, a native of Beauvais. To him also is due some of the stained glass in St. See also:

ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

Etienne, the second church of the town, and an interesting example of the transition See also:

STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage between the Romanesque and Gothic styles. In the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

Place de 1'Hotel de Ville and in the old streets near the cathedral there are several houses dating from the 12th to the 16th centuries. The hotel de ville, See also:

close to which stands the statue of Jeanne See also:

Hachette (see below), was built in 1752. The episcopal See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace, now used as a See also:

court-See also:

house, was built in the 16th century, partly upon the Gallo-See also:

ROMAN

Roman fortifications. The See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry of Beauvais comprises, besides the See also:

state manufacture of See also:

TAPESTRY

tapestry, which See also:

DATES

dates from 1664, the manufacture of various kinds of See also:

cotton and woollen goods, brushes, toys, boots and shoes, and bricks and tiles. See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

Market-gardening flourishes in the vicinity and an extensive See also:

trade is carried on in See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain and See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine. The town is the seat of a See also:

bishop, a See also:

PREFECT (prefet)

prefect and a court of assizes; it has tribunals of first instance and of See also:

commerce, together with a chamber of commerce, a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the Bank of France, a higher ecclesiastical See also:

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary, a lycee and training colleges. Beauvais was known to the See also:

Romans as Caesaromagus, and took its See also:

PRESENT

present name from the Gallic tribe of the Bellovaci, whose capital it was.

In the 9th century it became a countship, which about 1013 passed to the bishops of Beauvais, who ultimately became peers of France. In 1346 the town had to defend itself against the See also:

ENGLISH

English, who again besieged it in 1433• The See also:

SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege _ which it suffered in 1472 at the hands of the See also:

DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

BURGUNDY

Burgundy was rendered famous by the heroism of the See also:

WOMEN

women, under the leadership of Jeanne Hachette, whose memory is still celebrated by a procession on the 14th of See also:

OCTOBER

October (the feast of Ste Angadreme), in which the women take See also:

PRECEDENCE (from Lat. praecedere, to go before, precede)

precedence of the men. See V. Lhuillier, Choses du vieux Beauvais et du Beauvaisis (1896).

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