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BRESSUIRE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 500 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRESSUIRE , a See also:

town of western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of Deux-Sevres, 48 m. N. of See also:Niort by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 4561. The town is situated on an See also:eminence overlooking the Dolo, a tributary of the Argenton. It is the centre of a See also:cattle-rearing and agricultural region, and has important markets; the manufacture of wooden type and woollen goods is carried on. Bressuire has two buildings of See also:interest: the See also:church of Notre-See also:Dame, which, dating chiefly from the 12th and 15th centuries, has an imposing See also:tower of the See also:Renaissance See also:period; and the See also:castle, built by the lords of See also:Beaumont, vassals of the See also:viscount of See also:Thouars. The latter is now in ruins, and a portion of the site is occupied by a See also:modern See also:chateau, but an inner and See also:outer See also:line of fortifications are still to be seen. The whole forms the finest assemblage of feudal ruins in See also:Poitou. Bressuire is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and has a tribunal of first instance. Among the disasters suffered at various times by the town, its See also:capture from the See also:English and subsequent pillage by See also:French troops under du Guesclin in 1370 is the most memorable.

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