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MONTBRISON , a See also:town of See also:east-central See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Loire, France, 21 m. N.W. of St See also:Etienne, on the railway from Clermont to St Etienne. Pop. (1906), 6564. It is situated on a volcanic See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill overlooking the Vizezy, a right-See also:hand affluent of the Lignon du See also:Nord. The See also:principal buildings are the once collegiate 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 d'See also:Esperance, founded about 1220 but not finished till the 15th See also:century, and the 14th-century edifice known as the Salle de la See also:Diana (Decana), which was restored by See also:Viollet-le-Duc. There is a statue of the poet See also:Victor de See also:Laprade (d. 1883), a native of the town. Montbrison is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect, of a See also:court of See also:assize and of a tribunal of first instance. There are liqueur-distilleries and See also:flour-See also:mills, and See also:silk See also:ribbons are manufactured; there is considerable See also:commerce in See also:grain.
Montbrison belonged to the See also:counts of Forez during the See also:middle ages. In 1801 it became the capital of its department in See also:place of Feurs, but in 1856 the more important town of St. Etienne was substituted for it.
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