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ORTHEZ , a See also: town of See also:south-western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of Basses-See also:Pyrenees, 25 M. N.W. of See also:Pau on the See also:Southern railway to See also:Bayonne. Pop. (1906) town 4159; See also:commune 6254. It is finely situated on the right See also:bank of the Gave de Pau which is crossed at this point by abridge of the 14th See also:century, having four See also:arches and surmounted at its centre by a See also:tower. Several old houses, and a 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 the 12th, 14th and 15th centuries are of some See also:interest, but the most remarkable See also:building is the Tour de Moncade, a pentagonal tower of the 13th century, once the keep of a See also:castle of the viscounts of See also:Beam, and now used as a meteorological See also:observatory. A building of the 16th century is all that remains of the old Calvinist university (see below). The hotel de ville is a See also:modern building containing the library.
Orthez has a tribunal of first instance and is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect. The See also:spinning and See also:weaving of See also:cotton, especially of the fabric called toile de Beam, See also:flour-milling, the manufacture of See also:paper and of See also:leather, and the preparation of hams known as jambons de Bayonne and of other delicacies are among its See also:industries. There are quarries of 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 and See also:marble in the neighbourhood, and the town has a thriving See also:trade in leather, hams and See also:lime.
At the end of the 12th century Orthez passed from the See also:possession of the viscounts of Dax to that of the viscounts of Bearn, whose See also:chief See also:place of See also:residence ii became in the 13th century. See also: Froissart records the splendour of the See also:court of Orthez under Gaston See also:Phoebus in the latter See also:half of the 14th century. Jeanne d'See also:Albret founded a Calvinist university in the town and See also:Theodore See also:Beza taught there for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. An See also:envoy sent in 1569 by See also:Charles IX. to revive the See also:Catholic faith had to stand a See also:siege in Orthez which was eventually taken by See also:assault by the See also:Protestant See also:captain, See also:Gabriel, See also:count of See also:Montgomery. In 1684 See also:Nicholas See also:Foucault, See also:intendant under 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 XIV., was more successful, as the inhabitants, ostensibly at least, renounced Protestantism, which is nevertheless still strong in the town. In 1814 the See also:duke of See also:Wellington defeated See also:Marshal See also:Soult on the hills to the See also:north of Orthez.
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