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LANNION

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 183 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LANNION , a See also:

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, on the right See also:bank of the Leguer, 45 M. W.N.W. of St Brieuc by See also:rail. Pop. (1go6) J336. Lannion is 5 M. in See also:direct See also:line from the mouth of the Leguer; its See also:port does a small See also:trade (exports of agricultural produce, imports of See also:wine, See also:salt, See also:timber, &c.), and there is an-LA NOUE 183 active fishing See also:industry. The town contains many houses of the 15th and 16th centuries and other old buildings, the See also:chief of which is the See also:church of St See also:Jean-du-Baly (16th and 17th centuries). On an See also:eminence See also:close to Lannion is the church of Brelevenez of the 12th See also:century, restored in the 15th or 16th century; it has an interesting 16th-century See also:Holy See also:Sepulchre. Some 6 in. S.E. of the town are the imposing ruins of the See also:chateau of Tonquedec (c. 1400) styled the " See also:Pierrefonds of See also:Brittany," and there are other buildings of antiquarian See also:interest in the vicinity. The See also:coast north of Lannion at Tregastel and Ploumanac presents curious See also:rock formations. Lannion is ;he seat of a subprefect and has a tribunal of first instance and a communal See also:college.

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industries include saw-milling, tanning and the manufacture of See also:farm implements. The town was taken in 1346 by the See also:English; it was defended against them by See also:Geoffroy de Pontblanc whose valour is commemorated by a See also:cross close to the spot where he was slain.

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