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BEDARIEUA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 613 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEDARIEUA , a See also:

town of See also:southern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Herault, on the See also:Orb, 27 M. N.N.W. of See also:Beziers by See also:rail. Pap. (1906) 5594• The town has a 16th-See also:century See also:church, a See also:board of See also:trade See also:arbitration, a chamber of arts and manufactures, a communal See also:college and a school of See also:drawing. Bedarieux was at one See also:time a notable manufacturing centre. Its See also:cloth-See also:weaving See also:industry, carried on under a See also:special royal See also:privilege from the end of the 17th century to the Revolution, employed in 1789 as many as 5000 workmen, while some thousand more were occupied in See also:wool and See also:cotton See also:spinning, &c. In spite of the introduction of See also:modern machinery from See also:England, the See also:industries of the See also:place declined, mainly owing to the loss of the trade with the See also:Levant; but of See also:late years they have somewhat revived, owing partly to the opening up of See also:coal mines in the neighbourhood. Besides cloth factories and wool-spinning See also:mills, there are now numerous tanneries and See also:leather-dressing See also:works. There is some trade in See also:timber, wool and agricultural produce.

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