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MONTMORILLON

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 788 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTMORILLON , a See also:

town of western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Vienne, on the Gartempe, 34 M. E.S.E. of See also:Poitiers by See also:rail. Pop. (1906), 3924. The ecclesiastical See also:seminary occupies a See also:building of the 12th See also:century, formerly an Augustinian See also:convent. The convent See also:church is Romanesque in See also:style and there is a curious two-storied chapelof octagonal See also:form, of the same See also:period. The church of Notre-See also:Dame is a See also:combination of Romanesque and See also:Gothic, dating from the 12th and 13th centuries.

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