ALAIS  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of an See also:

• ARRONDISSEMENT (from arrondir, to make round)

arrondissement in the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• GARD

Gard, 25 M . N.N.W. of See also:

• NIMES
• NIMES, COUNCILS OF (Concilia Nemausensia)

Nimes on the See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris-See also:

• LYON, MARY MASON (1797-1849)
• LYON, NATHANIEL (1818-1861)

Lyon railway, on which it is an important junction . Pop . (Igoe) 18,987 . The town is situated at the See also:

• FOOT

foot of the See also:

• CEVENNES (Lat. Cebenna or Gebenna)

Cevennes, on the See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• BANK

bank of the Gardon, which See also:

• HALF

half surrounds it . The streets are wide and its promenades and See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• PLANE

plane-trees make the town attractive; but the public buldings, the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of which are 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 of St See also:

• JEAN

Jean, a heavy See also:

• BUILDING

building of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and the citadel, which serves as See also:

• BARRACKS (derived through the French from the Late Lat. barra, a bar)
• BARRACKS, CAMP

barracks and See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison, are of small See also:

• INTEREST

interest . See also:

• PASTEUR, LOUIS (1822-1895)

Pasteur prosecuted his investigations into the See also:

• SILK

silk-See also:

• WORM

worm disease at Alais, and the town has dedicated a bust to his memory . There is also a statue of the chemist J . B . See also:

• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE
• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE [" DUMAS FILS"] (1824-1895)
• DUMAS, GUILLAUME MATHIEU, COUNT (1753-1837)
• DUMAS, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRE (1800-1884)

Dumas . Alais has tribunals of first instance and of See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce, a See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board of See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade-arbitrators, a lycee and a school of mines . The town is one of the most important markets for raw silk and cocoons in the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of France, and the Gardon supplies See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to numerous silk-See also:

• MILLS, JOHN (d. 1736)
• MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832– )

mills .

It is also the centre of a See also:

• MINERAL

mineral See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field, which yields large quantities of See also:

• COAL

coal, See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron, See also:

• ZINC

zinc and See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead; its blast-furnaces, foundries, See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass-See also:

• WORKS

works and See also:

• ENGINEERING

engineering works afford employment to many workmen . In the r6th century Alais was an important Huguenot centre . In 1629 the town was taken 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 XIII., and by the See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace of Alais the See also:

• HUGUENOTS

Huguenots gave up their right to places de siirete (See also:

• GARRISON
• GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD (1805-1879)

garrison towns) and other privileges . A bishopric was established there in 1694 but suppressed in 1790 .