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HYERES , a See also:town in the See also:department of the See also:Var in S.E. See also:France, 11 m. by See also:rail E. of See also:Toulon. In 1906 the See also:population of the See also:commune was 17,79o, of the town 10,464; the population of the former was more than doubled in the last See also:decade of the 19th See also:century. Hyeres is celebrated (as is also its fashionable suburb, Costebelle, nearer the seashore) as a See also:winter See also:health resort. The town proper is situated about, 21 M. from the seashore, and on the See also:south-western slope of a steep See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill (669 ft., belonging to the Maurettes See also:chain, 961 ft.), which is one of the westernmost spurs of the thickly wooded Montagnes See also:des Maures. It is sheltered from the See also:north-See also:east and east winds, but is exposed to the See also:cold north-See also:west See also:wind or See also:mistral. Towards the south and south-east a fertile See also:plain, once famous for its See also:orange groves, but now mainly covered by vineyards and farms, stretches to the See also:sea, while to the south-west, across a narrow valley, rises a cluster of See also:low hills, on which is the suburb of Costebelle. The older portion of the town is still surrounded, on the north and east, by its See also:ancient, though dilapidated See also:medieval walls, and is a See also:labyrinth of steep and dirty streets. The more See also:modern See also:quarter which has grown up at the See also:southern See also:foot of the hill has handsome broad boulevards and villas, many of them with beautiful gardens, filled with semi, tropical See also:plants. Among the See also:objects of See also:interest in the old town are: the See also:house (See also:Rue Rabaton, 7) where J. B. See also:Massillon (1663-1742), the famous See also:pulpit orator, was See also:born; the See also:parish 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 of St 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, built originally in the 13th century by the Cordelier or Franciscan friars, but completely restored in the earlier See also:part of the 19th century; and the site of the old See also:chateau, on the See also:summit of the hill, now occupied by a See also:villa. The plain between the new town and the sea is occupied by large nurseries, an excellent jardin d'acclimatation, and many See also:market gardens, which See also:supply See also:Paris and See also:London with See also:early fruits and vegetables, especially artichokes, as well as with See also:roses in winter. There are extensive See also:salt beds (salines) both on the See also:peninsula of Giens, S. of the town, and also E. of the town. To the east of the Giens peninsula is the See also:fine natural See also:harbour of Hyeres, as well ag three thinly populated islands (the Stoechades of the ancients), Porquerolles, See also:Port Cros and Le See also:Levant, which are grouped together under the See also:common name of Iles d'Hyeres.
The town of Hyeres seems to have been founded in the loth century, as a See also:place of See also:defence against pirates, and takes its name from the aires (hierbo in the Provencal See also:dialect), or threshing-floors for See also:corn, which then occupied its site. It passed from the See also:possession of the viscounts of See also:Marseilles to See also:Charles of See also:Anjou, See also:count of See also:Provence, and See also:brother of St Louis (the latter landed here in 1254, on his return from See also:Egypt). The chateau was
dismantled by See also:Henri IV., but thanks to its walls, the town resisted in 1707 an attack made by the See also:duke of See also:Savoy.
See Ch. Lentheric, La Provence Maritime ancienne et moderne (See also:chap. 5) (Paris, 188o). (W. A. B.
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