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PERPIGNAN , a See also:town of See also:south-western See also:France, See also:capital of the See also:department of See also:Pyrenees-Orientates, on the right See also:bank of the Tet, 7 M. from the Mediterranean and 42 M. S. by W. of See also:Narbonne by See also:rail. Pop. (1906), town, 32,683; See also:commune, 38,898. The See also:north-See also:west See also:quarter of the town is traversed by the Basse, a tributary of the Yet, while to the south it is overlooked by a citadel enclosing a See also:castle (13th See also:century) of the See also:kings of See also:Majorca. The See also:chapel is remarkable as being a mixture of the Romanesque, Pointed and Moorish styles. The ramparts surrounding the citadel are the See also:work of 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 XI., See also:Charles V. and See also:Vauban. The sculptures and See also:caryatides still to be seen on the gateway of the citadel were placed there by the See also:duke of See also:Alva. The See also:cathedral of St See also:Jean was begun in 1324 and finished in 1509. The most noteworthy feature in the See also:building is an immense See also:reredos of
See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:marble (See also:early 17th century) by See also:Bartholomew Soler Of See also:Barcelona.
In the north of the town commanding the gateway of Notre-See also:Dame (1481) there stands a curious machicolated stronghold known as the Castillet (14th and 15th centuries), now used as a See also:prison. The buildings of the old university.;_ (18th century) contain the library and the museum, the latter possessing the first photographic proofs executed by See also:Daguerre and a collection of sculptures and paintings. Statues of See also:Francois See also:Arago, the
astronomer, and Hyacinthe Rigoud, the painter, stand in the squares named after them.
Perpignan is a fortified See also:place of the first class, and seat of a See also:prefect, a See also:bishop and a See also:court of assizes, and has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a chamber of commerce, a See also:branch of the Bank of France, a communal See also:college for boys, a school of See also:music and training colleges for both sexes. The higher tribunal
of Andovic sits at Perpignan. See also:Trade is in See also:wine, See also:iron, See also:wool, oil, corks and See also:leather.
Perpignan See also:dates at least from the loth century. In the 1 rth and 12th centuries it was a capital of the See also:counts of See also:Roussillon. from whom it passed in 1172 to the kings of See also:Aragon. See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip the Bold, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of France, died there in 1285, as he was returning from an unsuccessful expedition into Aragon. At that 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 it belonged to the See also:kingdom of Majorca, and its sovereigns resided there until, in 1344, that small See also:state reverted to the See also:possession of the
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kings of Aragon, who in 1349 founded a university at Perpignan. When Louis XI. occupied Roussillon as See also:security for See also:money advanced by him to the king of Aragon, Perpignan resisted the See also:French arms for a considerable time, and only yielded through stress of See also:famine (See also:March 15, 1475). Roussillon was restored to Aragon by Charles VIII. and Perpignan was again besieged in 1542 under See also:Francis I., but without success. Later on, however, the inhabitants, angered by the tyranny and See also:cruelty of the See also:Spanish See also:governor, surrendered the town to Louis XIII. The citadel held out until the 9th of See also:September 1642, and the place has ever since belonged to France, to which it was formally ceded by the treaty of the Pyrenees (1659). In 1602 the bishopric of See also:Elne was transferred to Perpignan.
See P. Vibal, Perpignan depuis See also:les origines jusqu' a nos fours (See also:Paris, 1898).
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