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BELLEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 699 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELLEY  , a

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town of eastern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of
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Ain, 52 M . S.E. of Bourg by the Paris-Lyon railway . Pop . (1906), town, 3709; commune, 5707 . It is situated on
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vine-covered hills at the southernextremity of the Jura, 3 M. from the right
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bank of the Rhone . Apart from the
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cathedral of St
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Jean, which, with the exception of the choir of 1413, is a
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modern
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building, there is little of architectural
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interest in the town . Belley is the seat of a bishopric and a prefect, and has a tribunal of first instance . The manufacture of
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morocco leather goods and the
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quarrying of the lithographic stone of the vicinity are carried on, and there is trade in cattle, grain, wine, truffles and dressed pork . Belley is of
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Roman origin, and in the 5th century became an episcopal see . It was the capital of the province of Bugey, which was a dependency of Savoy till 16or, when it was ceded to France . In 1385 the town was almost entirely destroyed by an act of incendiarism, but was subsequently rebuilt by the dukes of Savoy, who surrounded it with ramparts of which little is
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left .

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