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VALENCE , a See also:town of See also:south-eastern See also:France, See also:capital of the See also:department of DrBme, situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Rhone, 65 m. S. of See also:Lyons on the railway to See also:Marseilles. Pop. (1906), town, 22,950; See also:commune, 28,112. The See also:river is here crossed by a See also:fine suspension See also:bridge. The See also:cathedral of St See also:Apollinaris, which has an interesting See also:apse, was rebuilt in the lrth See also:century in the Romanesque See also:style of See also:Auvergne and consecrated in 1095 by See also:Urban II. It was greatly injured in the See also:wars of See also:religion, but restored in the first See also:decade of the 17th century. The See also:porch and the See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:tower above it were rebuilt in 1861. 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 contains the See also:monument of See also:Pius VI., who died at Valence in 1799. A curious See also:house (Maison See also:des Totes) of the 16th century has a sculptured front with heads of See also:Homer, See also:Hippocrates, See also:Aristotle,
See also:Pythagoras, &c. The Maison See also:Dupre-Latour with a beautifully carved See also:doorway and the sepulchral monument known as the Pendentif date from the same century. The library and the museum containing See also:Roman antiquities, sculptures and a picture See also:gallery, are housed in the old ecclesiastical See also:seminary. The most notable of the monuments erected by Valence to its natives are those to Emile See also:Augier the dramatist by the duchess of See also:Uzes (1897) and to See also:General See also:Championnet (1762-1800).
Valence is the seat of a See also:bishop, a See also:prefect and a See also:court of assizes, and has a tribunal of first instance, a See also:board of See also:trade See also:arbitration, a chamber of See also:commerce, a See also:branch of the Bank of France, training colleges for both sexes, and a communal See also:college. Among the See also:industries are See also:flour-milling, See also:cooperage and the manufacture of See also:furniture, See also:liquorice, whitewash, and See also:tapioca and similar foods. Trade, in which the See also:port on the Rhone shares, is in See also:fruit, See also:cattle and live-stock, See also:wine, See also:early vegetables and See also:farm produce, &c.
See also:Valentia was the capital of the Segalauni, and the seat of a celebrated school See also:prior to the Roman See also:conquest, a See also:colony under See also:Augustus, and an important town of Viennensis Prima under Valentinian. Its bishopric See also:dates probably from the 4th century. It was ravaged by the See also:Alani and other barbarians, and See also:fell successively under the See also:power of the Burgundians, the See also:Franks, the sovereigns of See also:Arles, the emperors of See also:Germany, the See also:dukes of See also:Valentinois, the See also:counts of See also:Toulouse, and its own bishops. The bishops were often in conflict with the citizens and the dukes of Valentinois, and to strengthen their hands against the latter the See also:pope in 1275 See also:united their bishopric with that of See also:Die. The citizens put themselves under the See also:protection of the dauphin, and in 1456 had their rights and privileges See also:con-firmed by 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 XI. and put on an equal footing with those of the See also:rest of See also:Dauphine, the bishops consenting to recognize the See also:suzerainty of the dauphin. In the 16th century Protestantism spread freely under Bishop See also:Jean de See also:Montluc, and Valence became the capital of the Protestants of the See also:province in 1563. The town was fortified by See also:Francis I. It had become the seat of a celebrated university in the See also:middle of the 15th century; but the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes struck a fatal See also:blow at its See also:industry, commerce and See also:population.
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