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MARMANDE , 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:Lot-et-See also:Garonne, 35 M. N.W. of See also:Agen, on the See also:Southern railway from See also:Bordeaux to See also:Cette. Pop. (1906), town 6373; See also:commune, 9748. Marmande is situated at the confluence of the Trec with the Garonne on the right See also:bank of the latter See also:river, which is here crossed by a suspension See also:bridge. Public institutions include the sub-prefecture, the tribunals of first instance and See also:commerce, the communal See also:college and See also:schools of commerce and See also:industry and of See also:agriculture. Apart fromthe administrative offices, the only See also:building of importance is 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 Notre-See also:Dame, which See also:dates from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. The graceful windows of the See also:nave, the See also:altar-piece of the 18th See also:century, and in particular, the See also:Renaissance See also:cloister adjoining the south See also:side, are its most interesting features. Among the See also:industries are See also:iron-See also:founding, See also:steam sawing, the manufacture of woollens, See also:carriage-making, See also:cooperage and See also:brandy-distilling. There is a large See also:trade in See also:wine, plums, See also:cattle, See also:grain and other agricultural produce.
Marmande was a See also:bastide founded about 1195 on the site of a more See also:ancient town by See also:Richard Coeur de See also:Lion, who granted it a liberal measure of self-See also:government. Its position on the See also:banks of the Garonne made it an important See also:place of See also:toll. It soon passed into the hands of the See also:counts of See also:Toulouse, and was three times besieged and taken during the Albigensian crusade, its See also:capture by Amaury de See also:Montfort in 1219 being followed by a See also:massacre of the inhabitants. It was See also:united to the See also:French See also:crown under 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 IX. A See also:short occupation by the See also:English in 1447, an unsuccessful See also:siege by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. in 1577 and its resistance of a See also:month to a See also:division of See also:Wellington's See also:army in 1814, are the See also:chief events in its subsequent See also:history.
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