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SENLWS , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Oise, on the right See also:side of the Nonette, a See also:left-See also:hand affluent of the Oise, 34 M. N.N.E. of See also:Paris by the Northern railway on the See also:branch See also:line (See also:Chantilly-Crepy) connecting the Paris-See also:Creil and Paris-See also:Soissons lines. Pop. (1906) 6074. Its antiquity, its See also:historical monuments and its situation in a beautiful valley, in the midst of the three See also:great forests of Hallatte, Chantilly and Ermenonville, render it interesting. Its Gallo-See also:Roman walls, 23 ft. high and 13 ft. thick, are, with those of St Lizier (See also:Ariege) and See also:Bourges, the most perfect in France. They enclose an See also:oval See also:area 1024 ft. See also:long from E. to W. and 794 ft. wide from N. to S. At each of the angles formed by the broken lines of which the See also:circuit of 2756 ft. is composed stands or stood a See also:tower; numbering originally twenty-eight, and now only sixteen, they are semicircular in See also:plan, and up to the height of the See also:wall are unpierced. The Roman See also:city had only two See also:gates; the See also:present number is five. The site of the praetorium was afterwards occupied by a See also:castle occasionally inhabited by the See also:kings of France from See also:Clovis to See also:Henry IV., and still represented by ruins dating from the r rth, 13th and 16th centuries. In the See also:neighbour-See also:hood of Senlis the See also:foundations of a Roman See also:amphitheatre have also been discovered. The old See also:cathedral of Notre See also:Dame (12th, 13th and 16th centuries) was begun in 1155 on a vast See also:scale; but owing to the limited resources of the See also:diocese progress was slow and the See also:transept was finished only under See also:Francis I.

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total length is 312 ft. (outside measurement), but the See also:nave (92 ft. high) is shorter than the See also:choir. At the See also:west front there are three doorways and two See also:bell towers. The right-hand tower (256 ft. high) is very striking: it consists, above the See also:belfry See also:stage, of a very slender octagonal See also:drum with open-See also:work turrets and a See also:spire with eight See also:dormer windows. The left-hand tower, altered in the 16th See also:century, is crowned by a See also:balustrade and a See also:sharp roof. In the side portals, especially in the See also:southern; the flamboyant See also:Gothic is displayed in all its delicacy. Externally the choir is extremely See also:simple. In the interior the See also:sacristy pillars with capitals of the loth century are noteworthy. The episcopal See also:palace, now an archaeological museum, See also:dates from the 13th century; the old collegiate See also:church of St Frambourg was built in the 12th century in the See also:style which became characteristic of the " See also:saintes chapelles " of the 13th and 14th centuries; St See also:Pierre (chiefly of the 15th and 16th centuries) serves as a See also:market. The ecclesiastical See also:college of St See also:Vincent, occupying the old See also:abbey of this name, has an interesting church probably of the 12th century. Its date has, however, been greatly disputed by archaeologists, who sometimes wrongly refer it to See also:Queen See also:Anne of See also:Russia, foundress in the rrth century of the abbey. The town See also:hall (15th century) and several private houses are also of architectural See also:interest.

Senlis has tribunals of first instance and of See also:

commerce and a sub-prefecture. The manufacture of bricks and tiles, cardboard, See also:measures and other wares are among the See also:industries. The town is an agricultural market. Senlis can be traced back to the Gallo-Roman township of the Silvanectes, which afterwards became Augustomagus. See also:Christianity was introduced by St Rieul probably about the See also:close of the 3rd century. During the first two dynasties of France Senlis was a royal See also:residence and generally formed See also:part of the royal domain; it obtained a communal See also:charter in 1173. In the See also:middle ages See also:local manufactures, especially that of See also:cloth, were active. The burgesses took part in the See also:Jacquerie of the 14th century, then sided with the Burgundians and the See also:English; whom, however, they afterwards expelled. The Leaguers were there beaten in 1589 by Henry I., See also:duke of See also:Longueville, and See also:Francois de La Noue. The bishopric was suppressed at the Revolution, and this suppression was confirmed by the See also:Concordat. See also:Treaties between See also:Louis XI. and Francis II., duke of See also:Brittany (1475), and between See also:Charles VIII. and See also:Maximilian of See also:Austria (1493) were signed at Senlis.

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