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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 811 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COMPIEGNE , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

NORTHERN

northern 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:

OISE

Oise, 52 M. N.N.E. of See also:

Paris on the Northern railway between Paris and St Quentin. Pop. (1906) 14,052. The town, which is a favourite summer resort, stands on the See also:

north-See also:

west border of the See also:

FOREST

forest of Compiegne and on the See also:

LEFT

left See also:

BANK

bank of the Oise, less than 1 m. below its confluence with the See also:

AISNE

Aisne. The See also:

RIVER

river is crossed by a See also:

BRIDGE

bridge built in the reign of See also:

Louis XV. The See also:

RUE (Fr. rue, Lat. ruta, from Gr. pur)

Rue See also:

SOLFERINO

Solferino, a continuation of the bridge ending at the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

Place de l'H6tel de Ville, is the busy See also:

street of the town; elsewhere, except on See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market days, the streets are quiet. The hotel de ville, with a graceful See also:

FACADE

facade surmounted by a lofty See also:

BELFRY (Mid. Eng. berfrey, through Med. Lat. berefredus, from Teut. bergfrid or bercvrit, which, according to the New Eng. Dict., is a combination of bergen, to protect, and frida, safety or peace; the word thus meaning a shelter; the change from r to 1,—

belfry, is in the See also:

LATE

late See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

style of the See also:

early 16th See also:

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

century and was completed in See also:

MODERN

modern times. Of the churches, St See also:

ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine (13th and 16th centuries) with some See also:

FINE

fine See also:

RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance stained See also:

glass, and St Jacques (13th and 15th centuries), need alone be mentioned. The remains of the See also:

ancient See also:

abbey of St See also:

Corneille are used as a military storehouse. Compiegne, from a very early See also:

period until 1870, was the occasional See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of the See also:

French See also:

KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings. Its See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace, one of the most magnificent structures of its See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind, was erected, chiefly by Louis XV. and Louis XVI., on the site of a See also:

CHATEAU (from Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)

chateau of See also:

King See also:

Charles V. of France.

It now serves as an See also:

ART

art museum. It has two facades, one overlooking the Place du Palais and the town, the other, more imposing, facing towards a fine See also:

park and the forest, which is chiefly of See also:

OAK (O. Eng., (lc)

oak and See also:

BEECH

beech and covers over 36,000 acres. Compiegne is the seat of a subprefect, and has tribunals of first instance and of See also:

commerce, a communal See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college, library and See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital. The See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries comprise See also:

BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat-See also:

BUILDING

building, rope-making, See also:

steam-sawing, distilling and the manufacture of See also:

CHOCOLATE

chocolate, machinery and sacks and coarse coverings, and at Margny, a suburb, there are manufactures of chemicals and See also:

FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt hats. See also:

ASPARAGUS

Asparagus is cultivated in the environs. There is considerable See also:

trade in See also:

TIMBER

timber and See also:

COAL

coal, chiefly river-See also:

BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne. Compiegne, or as it is called in the Latin See also:

CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

chronicles, Compendium, seems originally to have been a See also:

HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting-See also:

lodge of the early Frankish kings. It was enriched by Charles the Bald with two castles, and a See also:

BENEDICTINE

Benedictine abbey dedicated to See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint Corneille, the monks of which retained down to the 18th century the See also:

PRIVILEGE

privilege of acting for three days as lords of Compiegne, with full See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to See also:

RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release prisoners, condemn the guilty, and even inflict See also:

SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence of See also:

DEATH

death. It was in Compiegne that King Louis I. the Debonair was deposed in 833; and at the See also:

SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of the town in 1430 See also:

JOAN

Joan of Arc was taken prisoner by the See also:

ENGLISH

English. A See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument to her faces the hotel de ville. In 1624 the town gave its name to a treaty of See also:

ALLIANCE

alliance concluded by See also:

Richelieu with the Dutch; and it was in the palace that Louis XV. gave welcome to See also:

MARIE

Marie Antoinette, that See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon I. received Marie See also:

LOUISE [AUGUSTE WILHELMINE AMALIE LUISE] (1776-1810)

Louise of See also:

Austria, that Louis XVIII. entertained the See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

Alexander of See also:

Russia, and that See also:

LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

Leopold I., king of the Belgians, was married to the princess Louise. In 1814 Compiegne offered a stubborn resistance to the Prussian troops.

Under Napoleon III. it was the See also:

ANNUAL

annual resort of the See also:

court during the hunting See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season. From 187o to 1871 it was one of the headquarters of the See also:

German See also:

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