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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 217 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COSNE , a See also:

town of central See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Nievre, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Loire at its junction with the Nohain, 37 M. N.N.W. of See also:Nevers by the See also:Paris-See also:Lyon railway. Pop. (1906) town, 5750; See also:commune, 8437. Two suspension See also:bridges unite it to the See also:left bank of the Loire. The See also:church of St Aignan is a See also:building of the 12th See also:century, restored in the 16th and 18th centuries; the only portions in the Romanesque See also:style are the See also:apse and the See also:north-See also:west portal. It formerly belonged to a See also:Benedictine priory depending on the See also:abbey of La Charite (Nievre). The manufacture of files, See also:flour-milling and tanning are carried on in the town which has a subprefecture, a tribunal of first instance and a communal See also:college. Cosne is mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary under the name of Condate, but it was not till the See also:middle ages that it See also:rose into importance as a military See also:post. In the 12th century the See also:bishop of See also:Auxerre and the See also:count of Nevers agreed to a See also:division of the supremacy over the town and its territory.

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