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BRIVE , or BRIVES-LA-GAILLARDE, a See also:town of See also:south-central See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Correze, 62 m. S.S.E. of See also:Limoges on the See also:main See also:line of the See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans railway from See also:Paris to See also:Montauban. Pop. (1906) town 14,954; See also:commune 20,636. It lies on the See also:left See also:bank of the Correze in an ample and fertile See also:plain, which is the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting-See also:place of important roads and See also:railways. The See also:enceinte which formerly surrounded the town has been replaced by shady boulevards, and a few wide thoroughfares have been made, but many narrow winding streets and See also:ancient houses still remain. Outside the boulevards See also:lie the See also:modern quarters, also the See also:fine See also:promenade planted with See also:plane trees which stretches to the Correze and contains the See also:chief restaurants and the See also:theatre. Here also is the statue of See also:Marshal See also:Guillaume See also:Marie See also:Anne See also:Brune, who was a native of Brive. A fine See also:bridge leads over the See also:river to suburbs on its right bank. The public buildings are of little See also:interest apart from the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin, which stands in the See also:heart of the old town. It is a See also:building of the 12th See also:century in the Romanesque See also:style of See also:Limousin, with three narrow naves of almost equal height. The ecclesiastical See also:seminary occupies a graceful See also:mansion of the 16th century, with a See also:facade, a See also:staircase and fireplaces of fine See also:Renaissance workmanship. Brive is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect
and has a tribunal of first instance, a tribunal of See also:commerce, a communal See also:college and a school of See also:industry. Its position makes it a See also:market of importance, and it has a very large See also:trade in the See also:early vegetables and See also:fruit of the valley of the Correze, and in See also:grain, live-stock and truffles. Table-delicacies, See also:paper, wooden shoes, hats, See also:wax and earthenware are manufactured, and there are See also:slate and millstone workings and dye-See also:works.
In the vicinity are numerous See also:rock caves, many of them having been used as dwellings in prehistoric times. The best known are those of Lamouroux, excavated in stages in a See also:vertical See also:wall of rock, and four grotto-chapels resorted to by pilgrims in memory of St See also:Anthony of See also:Padua, who founded a Franciscan monastery at Brive in 1226. Under the See also:Romans Brive was known as Briva Curretiae (bridge of the Correze). In the See also:middle ages it was the capital of See also:lower Limousin.
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