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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 573 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRIOUDE , a See also:

town of central See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of Haute-See also:Loire, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Allier, 1467 ft. above the See also:sea, 47 M. N.W. of Le See also:Puy on the See also:Paris-See also:Lyon railway. Pop. (1006) 4585. Brioude has to a See also:great extent escaped modernization and still has many old' houses and fountains. Its streets are narrow and irregular, but the town is surrounded by wide boulevards lined with trees. The only See also:building of consequence is the See also:church of St See also:Julian (12th and 13th centuries) in the Romanesque See also:style of See also:Auvergne, of which the See also:choir, with its See also:apse and radiating chapels and the See also:mosaic ornamentation of the exterior, is a See also:fine example. Brioude is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect, and of tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce. The See also:plain in which it is situated is of great fertility; the See also:grain See also:trade of the town is considerable, and See also:market-gardening is carried on in the outskirts. The See also:industries include See also:brewing, saw-milling, See also:lace-making and See also:antimony See also:mining and See also:founding. Brioude, the See also:ancient Brisas, was formerly a See also:place of consider-able importance. It was in turn besieged and captured by the Goths (532), the Burgundians, the See also:Saracens (732) and the See also:Normans.

In 1181 the See also:

viscount of See also:Polignac, who had sacked the town two years previously, made public See also:apology in front of the church, and established a See also:body of twenty-five knights to defend the See also:relics of St Julian. For some See also:time after 1361 the town was the headquarters of See also:Berenger, See also:lord of See also:Castelnau, who was at the See also:head of one of the bands of military adventurers which then devastated France. The knights (or canons, as they afterwards became) of St Julian See also:bore the See also:title of See also:counts of Brioude, and for a See also:long time opposed themselves to the civic liberties of the inhabitants.

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