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NARBONNE
, a See also:city of See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Aude, situated in a See also:vine-growing See also:plain 5 M. from the Mediterranean, on the railway from See also:Toulouse to See also:Cette, 37 M
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E. of See also:Carcassonne
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Pop
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(1906) 23,289
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The Robine See also:canal, a See also:branch of the Canal du Midi, divides Narbonne into two distinct portions, the bourg and the cite
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The latter is one of the See also:oldest and most interesting of See also:French towns
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The former See also:cathedral (St Just), which consists only of a See also:choir 130 ft. high and See also:transept, was begun in 1272, and the transept was still unfinished at the end of the 15th See also:century
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The towers (194 ft. high) at each extremity of the transept were built about 1480
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Some additions towards the See also:west were made See also:early in the 18th century
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An unusual effect is produced by a See also:double See also:row of, crenellation taking the See also:place of balustrades on the roof of the choir chapels and connecting the pillars of the flying buttresses
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Among the sepulchral monuments, which are the See also:chief feature of the interior, may be noticed the See also:alabaster See also:tomb of See also:Cardinal See also:Guillaume Briconnet, See also:minister of See also:state under See also:
The See also:treasury preserves many interesting See also:relics
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The See also:apse of the cathedral was formerly joined to the fortifications of the archiepiscopal See also:palace, and the two buildings are still connected by a mutilated See also:cloister of the ,4th and 15th centuries
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On the front of the palace are three square towers of unequal height
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Between the Tour See also:des Telegraphes (1318), crenellated and turreted at the corners, and that of St See also:Martial (1374), machicolated and pierced by See also:Gothic openings, a new See also:facade was erected in the See also:style of the 13th century after the plans of See also:Viollet-le-Duc
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This portion of the See also:building now serves as hotel de ville, and its upper stories are occupied by the Narbonne museum of See also:art and See also:archaeology, which includes a See also:fine collection of pottery
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The palace See also:garden also contains many fragments of See also:Roman See also:work once built into the now dismantled fortifications; and the Musee Lapidaire in the Lamourguier buildings (formerly the See also:
It was there that the See also:Romans in 118 a.c. founded their first See also:colony in Gaul, which See also:bore the name of Narbo See also:Martius; they constructed See also:great See also:works to protect the city from inundation and to improve its See also:port, situated on a See also:lake now filled up but at that See also:time communicating with the See also:sea
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Capital of Gallia Narbonensis, the seat of a proconsul and a station for the Roman See also:fleet, Narbo Martius became the See also:rival of Massilia
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But in A.D
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150 it suffered greatly from a conflagration, and the See also:division of Gallia Narbonensis into two provinces lessened its importance as a capital
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Alans, Suevi, See also:Vandals, each held the city for a brief space, and at last, in 413, it was occupied by the Visigoths, whose capital it afterwards became
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In 719, after a See also:siege of two years, it was captured by the See also:Saracens, and by them its fortifications were restored and extended
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Charles Martel, after the See also:battle of See also:Poitiers, and See also:Pippin the See also:Short, in 752, were both repulsed from its walls; but on a new See also:attempt, after an investment of seven years, and by aid of a traitor, the See also:Franks managed again to force their way into Narbonne
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See also:Charlemagne made the city the capital of the duchy of Gothia, and divided it into three lordships—one for the See also:bishop, another for a Frankish See also:lord, and the third for the See also:Jews, who, occupying their own See also:quarter, possessed See also:schools, synagogues and a university famous in the See also:middle ages
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The viscounts who succeeded the Frankish lord sometimes acknowledged the authority of the See also:counts of Toulouse, sometimes that of the counts of See also:Barcelona
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In the 13th century the crusade against the Albigenses spared the city, but the archbishopric,was seized by the See also:pope's See also:legate, See also:Arnaud Amaury, who took the See also:title of See also:viscount of Narbonne
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See also:Simon de See also:Montfort, however, deprived him of this dignity, receiving from See also:
In 1642 See also:Henri See also:Marquis de Cinq-See also:Mars was arrested at Narbonne for conspiring against See also:Richelieu
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See also:United to the French See also:crown in 1507, Narbonne was enclosed by a new See also:line of walls under See also:Francis I., but having ceased to be a See also:garrison See also:town it had the last portions of its ramparts demolished in 1870
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The archbishopric was founded about the middle of the 3rd century, its first holder being See also:Sergius See also:Paulus; it was suppressed in 1790
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NARBONNE-See also:LARA, See also: See A . F . See also:Villemain, Souvenirs contemporains (See also:Paris, 1854) . |
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