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Encyclopedia Britannica



BARCELONNETTE

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 393 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BARCELONNETTE , a town in the department of Basses-Alpes, in the S.E. of France. Pop. (1906) 2075. It is built at a height of 3717 ft. on the right bank of the Ubaye river, on which it is the most important place. It is situated in a wide and very fertile valley, and is surrounded by many villas, built by natives who have made their fortune in
Mexico
 , and are locally known as les Americains. The town itself is mainly composed of a long
street
  (flanked by two others), which is really the road from Grenoble to
Cuneo
  over the Col de 1'Argentiere (6545 ft.). The only remarkable buildings in the town are a striking clock-tower of the ,5th century (the remains of a Franciscan convent) and the Musee Chabrand, which contains a very complete collection of birds, both European and extra-European.
Refounded in 1231 by Raymond Berenger IV.,
count
  of
Provence
  (he was of the family of the
counts
  of
Barcelona
 , whence the name of the town he rebuilt), Barcelonnette passed to Savoy in 1388 (formal cession in 1419), and in 1713 by the treaty of Utrecht was ceded to France in exchange for the valleys of Exilles, Fenestrelles, and Chateau Dauphin (Casteldelfino). It was the
birth
 -place of J. A. Manuel (1775-1827), the well-known Liberal orator at the time of the Restoration' of 1815, after whom the principal square of the town is named.
See F. Arnaud, Barcelonnette et ses environs (Guide du C. A. F.) (1898), and La Vallee de Barcelonnette (1900). (W. A. B. C.)


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