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REMIREMONT , a See also:town of eastern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Vosges, 17 M. S.S.E. of Epinal by See also:rail, on the Moselle, a mile below its confluence with the Moselotte. Pop. town, 8782; See also:commune, 10,548. Remiremont is surrounded by See also:forest-clad mountains, and commanded by Fort Parmont, one of the Moselle See also:line of defensive See also:works. The See also:abbey 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, consecrated in 1051, has a See also:crypt of the xrth See also:century in which are the tombs of some of the abbesses, but as a whole belongs to the See also:late 13th century. The abbatial See also:residence (which now contains the mairie, the See also:court-See also:house and the public library) has been twice rebuilt in See also:modern times (in 1750 and again after a See also:fire in 1871), but the See also:original See also:plan and See also:style have been preserved in the imposing front, the See also:vestibule and the See also:grand See also:staircase. Some of the houses of the canonesses dating from the 17th and 18th centuries also remain. Remiremont is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and has a tribunal of first instance, a communal See also:college, a See also:board of See also:trade-See also:arbitration and a charnber of arts and manufactures. Its See also:industries include See also:cotton-See also:spinning and See also:weaving, the manufacture of See also:hosiery and See also:embroidery, See also:iron and See also:copper See also:founding and the manufacture of boots and shoes and brushes.
Remiremont (Romarici See also:Mons) derives its name from St Romaric, one of the companions of St See also:Columban of Luxeuil, who in the 7th century founded a monastery and a See also:convent on the hills above the See also:present town. In 910 the nuns, menaced
by the invasion of the Hungarians, took See also:refuge at Remiremont, which had grown up See also:round a See also:villa of the Frankish See also:kings, and in the 11th century they permanently settled there. Enriched by See also:dukes of See also:Lorraine, kings of France and emperors of See also:Germany, the ladies of Remiremont attained See also:great See also:power. The See also:abbess was a princess of the See also:empire, and received See also:consecration at the hands of the See also:pope. The fifty canonesses were selected from those who could give See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of See also:noble descent. On Whit-See also:Monday the neighbouring parishes paid See also:homage to the See also:chapter in a ceremony called the " Kyrioles "; and on their See also:accession the dukes of Lorraine, the immediate suzerains of the abbey, had to come to Remiremont to swear to continue their See also:protection. The " See also:War of the Scutcheons " (Panonceaux) in 1566 between the See also:duke and the abbess ended in favour of the duke; and the abbess never recovered her former position. In the 17th century the ladies of Remiremont See also:fell away so much from the original monastic See also:rule as to take the See also:title of countesses, renounce their vows and marry. The town was attacked by the See also:French in 1638 and ruined by the See also:earthquake of 1682. With the See also:rest of Lorraine it was joined to France in 1766. The monastery on the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill and the nunnery in the town were both suppressed in the Revolution.
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