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See also:LES ANDELYS , a See also:town of See also:northern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Eure about 3o m. S.E. of See also:Rouen by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 3955• Les Andelys is formed by the See also:union of Le See also:Grand Andely and Le See also:Petit Andely, the latter situated on the right See also:bank of the See also:Seine, the former about See also:half a mile from the See also:river. Grand Andely, founded, according to tradition, in the 6th See also:century, has a 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 (13th, 14th and 15th centuries) parts of which are of See also:fine See also:late See also:Gothic and See also:Renaissance See also:architecture. The See also:works of See also:art in the interior include beautiful stained See also:glass of the latter See also:period. Other interesting buildings are the hotel du Grand Cerf dating from the first half of the 16th century, and the See also:chapel of Sainte-Clotilde, See also:close by a See also:spring which, owing to its supposed healing See also:powers, is the See also:object of a See also:pilgrimage. Grand Andely has a statue of See also:Nicolas Poussin a native of the See also:place. Petit Andely sprang up at the See also:foot of the See also:eminence on which stands the See also:chateau See also:Gaillard, now in ruins, but formerly one of the strongest fortresses in France (see FORTIFICATION AND SIEGECRAFT and See also:CASTLE). It was built by See also:Richard Coeur de See also:Lion at the end of the 12th century to protect the See also:Norman frontier, was captured by the See also:French in 1204 and passed finally into their See also:possession in 1449. The church of St Sauveur at Petit Andely also See also:dates from the end of the 12th century. Les Andelys is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and of a tribunal of first instance, has a preparatory See also:infantry school; it carries on See also:silk milling, and the manufacture of See also:leather, See also:organs and See also:sugar. It has See also:trade in See also:cattle, See also:grain, See also:flour, &c.
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