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LOUVIERS , 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:Eure, 172 M. S.S.E. of See also:Rouen by road. Pop. (1906) 9449. Louviers is pleasantly situated in a See also:green valley surrounded by wooded hills, on the Eure, which here divides into several branches. The old See also:part of the town, built of See also:wood, stands on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river; the more See also:modern portions, in See also:brick and hewn See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, on the right. There are spacious squares, and the See also:place is surrounded by boulevards. The See also:Gothic 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 Notre-See also:Dame has a See also:south portal which ranks among the most beautiful See also:works of the See also:kind produced in the 15th See also:century; it contains See also:fine stained See also:glass of the 15th and 16th centuries and other works of See also:art. The hotel-de-ville, a large modern See also:building, contains a museum and library. The See also:chief See also:industry is See also:cloth and See also:flannel manufacture. There are See also:wool-See also:spinning and fulling See also:mills, See also:- THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)
thread factories and manufactories of spinning and See also:weaving machinery, and See also:enamel See also:ware; See also:leather-working, See also:dyeing, See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal-See also:founding and See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
bell-founding are also carried on. The town is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and has a See also:court of first instance, a tribunal of See also:commerce, a chamber of arts and manufactures, and a See also:council of See also:trade arbitrators.
Louviers (Lovera) was originally a See also:villa, of the See also:dukes of See also:Normandy and in the See also:middle ages belonged to the archbishops of Rouen; its cloth-making industry first arose in the beginning of the 13th century. It changed hands once and again during the See also:Hundred Years' See also:War, and from See also:Charles VII. it received extensive privileges,
space. This, Minsheu s guess, is now generally abandoned. The Old See also:French See also:form, of which the See also:English is an See also:adaptation, was See also:lover or levier. The See also:medieval Latin lodium, lodarium, is suggested as the ultimate origin. Du Cange (Glossarium, s.v. " lodia ") defines it as lugurium, i.e. a small hut. The English form " louvre " is due to a confusion with the name of the See also:palace in See also:Paris. The origin of that name is also unknown; louverie, place of wolves, is one of the suggestions, the palace being supposed to have originally been a See also:hunting-See also:box (see PARIS).
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