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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 274 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:north-western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Cotes-du-See also:Nord, 37 M. E. of St Brieuc on the Western railway. Pop. (1906) 8588. Dinan is situated on a height on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Rance (here canalized), some 17 M. above its mouth at St Malo, with which it communicates by means of small steamers. It is See also:united to the See also:village of Lanvallay on the right bank of the See also:river by a See also:granite viaduct 130 ft. in height. The town is almost entirely encircled by the ramparts of the See also:middle ages, strengthened at intervals by towers and defended on the See also:south by a See also:castle of the See also:late 14th See also:century, which now serves as See also:prison. " Three old gateways are also pre-served. Dinan has two interesting churches; that of St Malo, of late See also:Gothic See also:architecture, and St Sauveur, in which the Romanesque and Gothic styles are intermingled. In the latter See also:church a granite See also:monument contains the See also:heart of See also:Bertrand Du Guesclin, whose connexion with the town is also commemorated by an equestrian statue. The See also:quaint winding streets of Dinan are often bordered by See also:medieval houses. Its picturesqueness attracts large See also:numbers of visitors and there are many See also:English residents in the town and its vicinity.

About three-quarters of a mile from the town are the ruins of the See also:

chateau and the See also:Benedictine See also:abbey at Lehon; near the neighbouring village of St Esprit stands the large lunatic See also:asylum of See also:Les Bas Foins, founded in 1836; and at no See also:great distance is the now dismantled chateau of La Garaye, which was rendered famous in the 18th century by the philanthropic devotion of the See also:count and countess whose See also:story is told in Mrs See also:Norton's See also:Lady of La Garaye. Dinan is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and has a tribunal of first instance, and a communal See also:college. There is See also:trade in See also:grain, See also:cider, See also:wax, See also:butter and other agricultural products. The See also:industries include the manufacture of See also:leather, See also:farm-implements and See also:canvas. The See also:principal event in the See also:history of Dinan, which was a strong-hold of the See also:dukes of See also:Brittany, is the See also:siege by the English under the See also:duke of See also:Lancaster in 1359, during which Du Guesclin and an English See also:knight called See also:Thomas of See also:Canterbury engaged in single combat.

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