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CORBEIL , a See also:town of See also:northern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise, at the confluence of the Essonne with the Seine, 21 m. S. by E. of See also:Paris on 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 to See also:Nevers. Pop. (1906) 9756. A See also:bridge across the Seine unites the See also:main See also:part of the town on the See also:left See also:bank with a suburb on the other See also:side; handsome boulevards See also:lead to the See also:village of Essonnes (pop. 7255), about a mile to the See also:south-See also:west. St See also:Spire, the only survivor of the formerly numerous churches of Corbeil, See also:dates from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Behind 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 there is a See also:Gothic gateway. A See also:monument has been erected to the See also:brothers See also:Galignani, publishers of Paris, who gave a See also:hospital and orphanage to the town. Corbeil is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect, and has tribunals of first instance and See also:commerce and a chamber of commerce. It has important See also:flour-See also:mills, See also:tallow-See also:works, See also:printing-works, large See also:paper-works at Essonnes, and carries on See also:boat and See also:carriage-See also:building, and the manufacture of See also:plaster. The Decauville See also:engineering works are in the vicinity. There is See also:trade in See also:grain and flour.
From the loth to the 12th See also:century Corbeil was the See also:chief town of a powerful countship, but it was See also:united to the See also:crown 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 VI.; it continued for a See also:long See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to be an important military See also:post in connexion with the See also:commissariat of Paris. In 1258 St Louis concluded a treaty here with See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. of See also:Aragon. Of the numerous sieges to which it has been exposed the most important were those by the See also:Huguenots in 1562, and by See also:Alexander See also:Farnese, See also:prince of See also:Parma, in 1590.
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