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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 859 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LODEVE , a See also:

town of See also:southern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement of the See also:department of See also:Herault, 36 m. W.N.W. of See also:Montpellier by See also:rail. Pop. (1906), 6142. It is situated in . the southern See also:Cevennes at the See also:foot of steep hills in a small valley where the Soulondres joins the Lergue, a tributary of the Herault. Two See also:bridges over the Lergue connect the town with the See also:faubourg of Carmes on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river, and two others over the Soulondres See also:lead to the extensive ruins of the See also:chateau de See also:Montbrun (13th See also:century). The old fortified See also:cathedral of St Fulcran, founded by him in 950, See also:dates in its See also:present See also:condition from the 13th, 14th and 16th centuries; the See also:cloister, dating from the 15th and 17th centuries, is in ruins. In the picturesque environs of the town stands the well-preserved monastery of St See also:Michel de See also:Grammont, dating from the 12th century and now used as See also:farm buildings. In the neighbourhood are three See also:fine dolmens. The manufacture of woollens for See also:army clothing is the See also:chief See also:industry. See also:Wool is imported in large quantities from the neighbouring departments, and from See also:Morocco; the exports are See also:cloth to See also:Italy and the See also:Levant, See also:wine, See also:brandy and See also:wood. The town has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a See also:board of See also:trade-arbitrators, a chamber of arts and manufactures, and a communal See also:college.

Lodeve (Luteva) existed before the invasion of the See also:

Romans, who for some See also:time called it See also:Forum Neronis. The inhabitants were converted to See also:Christianity by St See also:Flour, first See also:bishop of the See also:city, about 323. After passing successively into the hands of the Visigoths, the See also:Franks, the See also:Ostrogoths, the See also:Arabs and the See also:Carolingians, it became in the 9th century a See also:separate See also:count-See also:ship, and afterwards the domain of its bishops. During the religious See also:wars it suffered much, especially in 1573, when it was sacked. It ceased to be See also:art episcopal see at the Revolution.

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