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PEZENAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 339 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEZENAS , a See also:

town of See also:southern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Herault 33 M. W.S.W. of See also:Montpellier on the southern railway. Pop. (1906), 6432. The See also:commerce in See also:cognac, See also:spirits and wines is so important that the prices current for these at the weekly sales are registered throughout .the See also:wine marts of France and See also:Europe. There is a handsome See also:monument to 1\/Ioliere, who lived at Pezenas several years and produced his first plays there in 1655 and 1656. A gateway (15th See also:century) and old See also:mansion of the 15th and 16th centuries are of See also:interest. Pezenas (Piscennae) was founded by the Gauls. In the loth century it became the See also:capital of a countship subsequently held by important families including those of See also:Montmorency, See also:Conde and. See also:Conti. In the 17th century the town was on several occasions the See also:meeting See also:place of the estates of See also:Languedoc.

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