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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 699 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BELLEY , a See also:

TOWN

town of eastern See also:

France, See also:

capital of an See also:

ARRONDISSEMENT (from arrondir, to make round)

arrondissement in the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

AIN

Ain, 52 M. S.E. of Bourg by the See also:

Paris-See also:

Lyon railway. Pop. (1906), town, 3709; See also:

commune, 5707. It is situated on See also:

VINE

vine-covered hills at the southernextremity of the See also:

Jura, 3 M. from the right See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

Rhone. Apart from the See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral of St See also:

JEAN

Jean, which, with the exception of the 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 of 1413, is a See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

BUILDING

building, there is little of architectural See also:

INTEREST

interest in the town. Belley is the seat of a bishopric and a See also:

PREFECT (prefet)

prefect, and has a tribunal of first instance. The manufacture of See also:

MOROCCO

morocco See also:

leather goods and the See also:

QUARRYING

quarrying of the lithographic See also:

stone of the vicinity are carried on, and there is See also:

trade in See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, 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, See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine, truffles and dressed pork. Belley is of See also:

ROMAN

Roman origin, and in the 5th See also:

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

century became an episcopal see. It was the capital of the See also:

province of Bugey, which was a dependency of See also:

Savoy till 16or, when it was ceded to France. In 1385 the town was almost entirely destroyed by an See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of See also:

INCENDIARISM (Lat. incendere, to set on fire, burn)

incendiarism, but was subsequently rebuilt by the See also:

dukes of Savoy, who surrounded it with ramparts of which little is See also:

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