COULOMMIERS
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V07,
Page 308
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
COULOMMIERS
, a See also:town of See also:northern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Marne, 45 M
.
E. of See also:Paris by See also:rail
.
Pop
.
(1906) 5217
.
It is situated in the fertile See also:district of See also:Brie, in a valley watered by the See also:Grand-See also:Morin
.
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:Denis (13th and 16th centuries), and the ruins of a See also:castle built by See also:Catherine of See also:Gonzaga, duchess of I.ongueville, in the See also:early 17th See also:century, are of little importance
.
There is a statue to Commandant Beaurepaire, who, in 1792, killed him-self rather than surrender See also:Verdun to the Prussians
.
Coulommiers is the seat of a subprefect, and has a tribunal of first instance and a communal See also:college
.
See also:Printing is the See also:chief See also:industry, tanning, See also:flour-milling and See also:sugar-making being also carried on
.
See also:Trade is in agricultural products, and especially in cheeses named after the town
.
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