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LARGENTIERE

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LARGENTIERE , a See also:

town of See also:south-eastern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Ardeche, in the narrow valley of the Ligne, 29 111. S.W. of Privas by road. Pop. (1906) 169o. A See also:church of the 12th, 13th and 15th centuries and the old See also:castle of the bishops of Viviers, lords of Largentiere, now used as a See also:hospital, are the See also:chief buildings. The town is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and of a tribunal of first instance; and has See also:silk-See also:mills, and carries on silk-See also:spinning, See also:wine-growing and See also:trade in See also:fruit and silk. It owes its name to See also:silver-mines worked in the vicinity in the See also:middle ages.

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