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EMBRUN , a See also:

town in the See also:department of the Hautes Alpes in S.E. See also:France. It is built at a height of 2854 ft. on a See also:plateau that rises above the right See also:bank of the See also:Durance. It is 271 M. by See also:rail from See also:Briancon and 24 M. from See also:Gap. Its ramparts were demolished in 1884. In 1906 the communal pop. (including the See also:garrison) was 3752. Besides the Tour See also:Brune (11th See also:century) and the old archiepiscopal See also:palace, now occupied by See also:government offices, See also:barracks, &c., the See also:chief See also:object of See also:interest in Embrun is its splendid See also:cathedral See also:church, which See also:dates from the second See also:half of the 12th century. Above its See also:side See also:door, called the Real, there existed till 1585 (when it was destroyed by the See also:Huguenots) a See also:fresco, probably painted in the 13th century, representing the Madonna: this was the object of a celebrated See also:pilgrimage for many centuries. See also:Louis XI. habitually wore on his See also:hat a leaden See also:image of this Madonna, for which he had a very See also:great veneration, since between 1440 and 1461, during the lifetime of his See also:father, he had been the dauphin, and as such ruler of this See also:province. Embrun was the Eburodunum or Ebredunum of the See also:Romans, and the chief town of the province of the Maritime See also:Alps. The episcopal see was founded in the 4th century, and became an archbishopric about 800.

In 1147 the archbishops obtained from the See also:

emperor See also:Conrad III. very extensive temporal rights, and the See also:rank of princes of the See also:Holy See also:Roman See also:Empire. In 1232 the See also:county of the Embrunais passed by See also:marriage to the dauphins of Viennois. In 1791 the archiepiscopal see was suppressed, the region being then transferred to the See also:diocese of Gap, so that the once See also:metropolitan cathedral church is now simply a See also:parish church. The town was sacked in 1585 by the Huguenots and in 1692 by the See also:duke of See also:Savoy. See also:Henri See also:Arnaud (1641-1721), the Waldensian pastor and See also:general, was See also:born at Embrun. See A. See also:Albert, Histoire du diocese d'Embrun (2 vols., Embrun, 1783) ; M. Fornier, Histoire generale See also:des Alpes Maritimes ou Cottiennes et particuliere de leur metropolitaine Embrun (written 1626–1643), published by the See also:Abbe See also:Paul See also:Guillaume (3 vols., See also:Paris and Gap, 189o–1891) ; A. See also:Fabre, Recherches historiques sur le elerinage des rocs de France a N. D. d'Embrun (See also:Grenoble, 1859)); A. Sauret, Essai historique sur la ville d'Embrun (Gap, 1860). (W.

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