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MILLAU , a See also:town of See also:southern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Aveyron, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Tarn at its confluence with the Dourbie, 74 M. N. of See also:Beziers on the Southern railway. Pop. (1906), 16,853. Millau lies in a
See also:rich valley 1 200 ft. above the See also:sea surrounded by the spurs of the Levezou, Causse Noir and Larzac ranges. The streets are narrow and some of the houses of See also:great antiquity, but the town is surrounded by spacious boulevards. One of its squares is bordered on two sides by wooden galleries supported on 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 columns. The only buildings of See also:special See also:interest are the Romanesque 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, restored in the 16th See also:century, and the See also:fine See also:Gothic See also:belfry of the old hotel de ville. Millau is seat of a sub-See also:prefect, and possesses tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a See also:board of See also:trade-arbitrators, a chamber of commerce and a communal See also:college. The See also:principal See also:industry is the manufacture of gloves, and various branches of the See also:leather industry are carried on. The See also:chief articles of trade are skins, See also:wool, See also:wine and Roquefort See also:cheese.
In the See also:middle ages Millau was the seat of a viscounty held by the See also:counts of See also:Barcelona and afterwards by the counts of See also:Armagnac. In the 16th century it became one of the leading strongholds of Calvinism in southern France. In 162o it revolted against 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 XIII., and after its submission See also:Richelieu caused its fortifications to be dismantled. The See also:edict of See also:Nantes hastened the decline of the town, which did not recover its prosperity till after the Revolution.
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