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SABLE , a See also:town of western See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Sarthe, on the See also:river Sarthe, 30 M. W.S.W. of Le Mans by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 4952. Sable has a See also:chateau of the 18th See also:century, a fortified gateway, relic of a See also:medieval stronghold, and a See also:modern 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 with See also:fine stained See also:glass of the See also:early 15th century. Its importance, however, is chiefly due to the See also:marble quarries of the vicinity, the products of which are worked in the town, where See also:flour-milling, the manufacture of See also:farm-implements and See also:trade in See also:cattle are also carried on. A communal See also:college is among the public institutions. From the 11th century Sable was the seat of a powerful See also:barony, which in 1602 was made a duchy-See also:peerage in favour of Urbain de See also:Laval, See also:marshal of France. The See also:place afterwards came into the See also:possession of See also:Colbert de Torcy, See also:nephew of the See also:great Colbert who built the chateau. In 1488 a treaty which resulted in the See also:union of France and See also:Brittany was concluded at Sable, between See also:Charles VIII. and See also:Duke See also:Francis II.
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