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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 414 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CREST , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

south-eastern See also:

France, in the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Drdme, on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

DROME

Drome, 20 M. S.S.E. of See also:

VALENCE

Valence by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1906) town, 3971; See also:

commune, 566o. It carries on See also:

SILK

silk-See also:

WORM

worm breeding, silk-See also:

SPINNING (from O. Eng. spinnen, to spin, cf. Ger. spinnen, &c., the Teut. root is seen, to draw out, cf. span, spider)

spinning, and the manufacture of woollens, See also:

paper, See also:

leather and See also:

CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

cement. There is See also:

trade in truffles. On the See also:

rock which commands the town stands a huge keep, the See also:

SOLE (Solea)

sole survival of a See also:

castle (12th See also:

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

century) to which Crest was indebted for its importance in the See also:

MIDDLE

middle ages and the Religious See also:

WARS

Wars. The See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the castle was destroyed in the first See also:

HALF

half of the 17th century, after which the keep was used as a See also:

state See also:

PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison. Crest ranked for a See also:

time as the See also:

capital of the duchy of See also:

VALENTINOIS

Valentinois, and in that capacity belonged before the Revolution to the See also:

prince of See also:

MONACO

Monaco. The communal See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter, graven on See also:

stone and dating from the 12th century, is preserved in the public archives. Ten See also:

MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles south-See also:

east of Crest lies the picturesque See also:

FOREST

Forest of Saon.

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