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POISSY , a See also:town of See also:northern See also:France, in the See also:department of ' See also:POITIERS, a town of western France, formerly the See also:capital of See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise, 17 M. W.N.W. of See also:Paris, on the railway from Paris
to See also:Rouen. Pop. (1906), 6043. The 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, supposed to have been built in the first See also:half of the 12th See also:century, and eventually restored under the direction of See also:Viollet le Due, is of See also:special architectural See also:interest, as affording one of the earliest and best examples of transition from the Romanesque to the Pointed See also:style. The See also:bridge of Poissy, a very See also:ancient See also:foundation, has been widened and modernized; of the See also:mills which formerly bordered it one was known as See also:Queen See also:Blanche's. A statue of the painter J. L. E. See also:Meissonier was erected in 1894, See also:close to his See also:house. Poissy supplied butchers' See also:meat to Paris during six centuries, but in 1867 the See also:market was removed to the See also:metropolis. A handsome See also:fountain stands in the old market-See also:place. Distilling and the manufacture of chairs and See also:flour-milling equipment are carried on and ragstone is quarried.
Poissy, the ancient Pinciacum, was the capital of the See also:country of the See also:Carnutes. In the 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 of See also:Charlemagne it had a royal See also:palace, where during the 9th century four See also:national assemblies were held. Later it became a favourite See also:residence of Blanche of Castille, and her son, afterwards St 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, is supposed to have been See also:born there. 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 See also:Fair gave the See also:castle to the See also:Dominicans, by whom it was completely transformed, and it was in the See also:refectory of the See also:abbey that the famous See also:conference (see below) between the See also:Roman Catholics and Protestants took place in 1561.
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