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LECTOURE , a See also:town of See also:south-western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Gers, 21 M. N. of See also:Auch on the See also:Southern railway between that See also:city and See also:Agen. Pop. (1906), town, 2426; See also:commune, 4310. It stands on the right See also:bank of the Gers, overlooking the See also:river from the See also:summit of a steep See also:plateau. The 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:Gervais and St Protais was once a See also:cathedral. The massive See also:tower which flanks it on the See also:north belongs to the 15th See also:century; the See also:rest of the church See also:dates from the 13th, 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. The hotel de ville, the sous-prefecture and the museum occupy the See also:palace of the former bishops, which was once the See also:property of See also:Marshal See also:Jean See also:Lannes, a native of the town. A See also:recess in the See also:wall of an old See also:house contains the See also:Fontaine de Houndelie, a See also:spring sheltered by a See also:double archway of the 13th century. At the bottom of the 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 a church of the 16th century marks the site of the monastery of St Geny. Lectoure has a tribunal of first instance and a communal See also:college. Its See also:industries include distilling, the manufacture of wooden shoes and biscuits, and See also:market gardening; it has See also:trade in See also:grain, See also:cattle. See also:wine and See also:brandy.
Lectoure, capital of the Iberian tribe of the Lactorates and for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of Novempopulania, became the seat of a bishopric in the 4th century. In the 11th century the See also:counts of Lomagne made it their capital, and on the See also:union of Lomagne with See also:Armagnac, in 1325, it became the capital of the counts of Armagnac. In 1473 See also:Cardinal Jean de See also:Jouffroy besieged the town on behalf of 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 XI. and after its fall put the whole pupulation to the See also:sword. In 1562 it again suffered severely at the hands of the Catholics under Blaise de See also:Montluc.
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