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Encyclopedia Britannica



BERNAY

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 800 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BERNAY , a town of north-western France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of Eure, on the left bank of the Charentonne, 31 M. W.N.W. of Evreux, on the Western railway between that town and Lisieux. Pop. (1906) 5973. It is beautifully situated in the midst of green wooded hills, and still justifies Madame de Stael's description of it as " a basket of
flowers
 ." Of
great
  antiquity, it possesses numerous quaint wooden houses and ancient ecclesiastical buildings of considerable
interest
 . The abbey church is now used as a market; and the abbey, which was founded by Judith of Brittany early in the 11th century, and underwent a restoration in the 17th century, serves for municipal and legal purposes. The church of Ste Croix, which has a remarkable marble figure of the infant Jesus,
dates
  from the 14th and 15th centuries, that of Notre-Dame de la Couture, which preserves some good stained glass, from the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Bernay has a sub-prefecture, a communal college, tribunals of commerce and of first instance, and a board of trade-arbitrators. Among the industrial establishments of the place are manufactories of
cotton
  and woollen goods, bleacheries and dye-works. Large numbers of Norman horses are sold in Lent, at the
fair
  known as the Foire fleurie, and there is also a trade in grain. Bernay grew up round the
Benedictine
  abbey mentioned above, and early in the 13th century was the seat of a viscount. The town, formerly fortified.
was besieged by Bertrand du Guesclin, constable of France, in 1378; it was taken several times by the English during the first half of the 15th century, and by Admiral de Coligny in 1563. The fortress was razed in 1589.


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