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CASTRES , a See also:town of See also:south-western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Tarn, 29 M. S.S.E. of See also:Albi on a See also:branch See also:line of the See also:Southern railway. Pop. (1906) town, 19,864; See also:commune, 28,272. Castres, the busiest and most populous town of its department, is intersected from See also:north to south by the Agout; the See also:river is fringed by old houses the upper stories of which project over its See also:waters. Wide boulevards See also:traverse the See also:west of the town, which is also rendered attractive by numerous fountains fed by a See also:fine See also:aqueduct hewn in the See also:rock. 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:Benoit, once a See also:cathedral, and the most important of the churches of Castres, See also:dates only from the 17th and 18th centuries. The hotel de See also:vine, which contains a museum and the municipal library, occupies the former See also:bishop's See also:palace,designed by Jules Mansart in the 17th See also:century; the Romanesque See also:tower beside it is the only survival of an old See also:Benedictine See also:abbey. The town possesses some old mansions of which the hotel de Nayrac, of the See also:Renaissance, is of most See also:interest. Castres has a sub-prefecture, tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a See also:board of See also:trade-arbitrators, a chamber of commerce, a branch of the See also:bank of France and two hospitals. There are also communal colleges for boys and girls, a school of See also:artillery and school of draughtsmanship. The See also:industrial establishments include manufactories of earthenware and See also:porcelain and See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal-foundries, and tanning, See also:leather-dressing, turnery, the making of wooden shoes and See also:furniture, the See also:weaving of woollen and other fabrics, See also:dyeing, and the manufacture of machinery, See also:paper and See also:parchment are carried on.
Castres See also:grew up See also:round a Benedictine abbey, which is believed to have been founded in the 7th century. It was a See also:place of considerable importance as See also:early as the 12th century, and ranked as the second town of the Albigenses. During the Albigensian crusade it surrendered of its own See also:accord to See also:Simon de See also:Montfort; and in 1356 it was raised to a countship by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:John of France. On the See also:confiscation of the possessions of the D'See also:Armagnac See also:family, to which it had passed, it was bestowed by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XI. on Boffilo del Giudice, but the See also:appointment led to so much disagreement that the countship was See also:united to the See also:crown by See also:Francis I. in 1519. In the See also:wars of the latter See also:part of the 16th century the inhabitants sided with the See also:Protestant party, fortified the town, and established an See also:independent See also:republic. They were brought to terms, however, by Louis XIII., and forced to dismantle their fortifications; and the town was made the seat of the chambre de l'edit, or chamber for the investigation of the affairs of the Protestants, afterwards transferred to Casteinaudary (in 1679). The bishopric of Castres, which had been established by See also:Pope John XXII. in 1317, was abolished at the Revolution.
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