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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 371 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEMOURS , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Marne, on the Loing and its See also:canal, 26 m. S. of See also:Melun, on the See also:Paris-See also:Lyon railway. Pop. (1906) 4814. The See also:church, which See also:dates mainly from the 16th See also:century, has a handsome wooden See also:spire, and there is a feudal See also:castle. A statue of the mathematician Bezout (d. 1783), a native of the town, was erected in 1885. In the vicinity is a See also:group of See also:fine See also:sandstone rocks, and See also:sand is extensively quarried. Nemours is supposed to derive its name from the See also:woods (nemora) in the midst of which it formerly stood, and discoveries of Gallo-See also:Roman remains indicate its See also:early origin. It was captured by the See also:English in 1420, but derives its See also:historical importance rather from the lordship (afterwards duchy) to which it gave its name. In 1585 a treaty revoking previous concessions to the Protestants was concluded at Nemours between See also:Catherine de See also:Medici and the Guises.

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