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MONTDIDIER

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 763 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTDIDIER , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Somme, 23 M. S.E. of See also:Amiens by See also:rail. Pop. (1906), 4159. The town, situated on an See also:eminence on the right See also:bank of the See also:Don, See also:dates from the Merovingian See also:period, and perhaps owes its name to the imprisonment of the Lombard See also:king Didier in the 8th See also:century. The See also:church of St See also:Pierre, dating chiefly from the 15th century, has a beautiful portal of the 16th century and contains the See also:tomb of Raoul III., See also:count of Crepy (12th century), fonts of the 11th century and other See also:works. of See also:art. The church of St Sepulcre belongs, with the exception of the See also:modern portal, to the 15th and 16th centuries. In the interior there is a well-known " See also:Holy See also:Sepulchre " of the latter period. The See also:law-See also:court, once the See also:castle, partly dating from the 12th century, possesses See also:fine tapestries of the 17th century. A statue commemorates the See also:birth at Montdidier of See also:Antoine Parmentier (1737—1813), with whose name are connected the beginnings of See also:potato-culture in France. The town has a sub-prefecture and a tribunal of first instance; its See also:industries include tanning and the manufacture of See also:zinc-See also:white. Held first by its own lords, afterwards by the See also:counts of Crepy and See also:Valois, Montdidier passed to the See also:Crown in the 12th century, at the end of which it was granted a See also:charter of liberties.

The town offered a brave and successful resistance to the See also:

Spanish troops in 1636. MONT-See also:DORE-See also:LES-BAINS, a watering-See also:place of central France in the department of See also:Puy-de-See also:Dome, situated at a height of 3440 ft., on the right bank of the See also:Dordogne not far from its source, and 31 M. by road S.W. of Clermont-See also:Ferrand. Pop. (1906), 1677. The Monts Dore See also:close the valley towards the See also:south. The thermal springs of Mont Dore, now numbering twelve, were known to the See also:Romans. Bicarbonate of soda, See also:iron and See also:arsenic are the See also:principal ingredients of the See also:waters, which are used both for drinking and bathing, See also:baths of high temperature being characteristic of the treatment; they are efficacious in cases of pulmonary See also:consumption, See also:bronchitis, See also:asthma, and See also:nervous and rheumatic See also:paralysis. From the See also:elevation and exposure of the valley, the See also:climate of Mont-Dore-les-Bains is severe, and the See also:season only lasts from the 15th of See also:June to the 15th of See also:September. The See also:bath-See also:house was rebuilt in 1891—1894. In the " See also:park," along the Dordogne, See also:relics from the old See also:Roman baths have been collected. The surrounding See also:country, with its See also:fir See also:woods, pastures, waterfalls and mountains, is very attractive. To the south is the Puy de See also:Sancy (6188 ft.), the loftiest See also:peak of central France.

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