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Encyclopedia Britannica



BRESSUIRE

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 500 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRESSUIRE , a town of western France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of Deux-Sevres, 48 m. N. of
Niort
  by
rail
 . Pop. (1906) 4561. The town is situated on an
eminence
  overlooking the Dolo, a tributary of the Argenton. It is the centre of a cattle-rearing and agricultural region, and has important markets; the manufacture of wooden type and woollen goods is carried on. Bressuire has two buildings of
interest
 : the
church
  of Notre-Dame, which, dating chiefly from the 12th and 15th centuries, has an imposing tower of the Renaissance period; and the castle, built by the lords of
Beaumont, vassals of the viscount of Thouars. The latter is now in ruins, and a portion of the site is occupied by a
modern
  chateau, but an inner and outer line of fortifications are still to be seen. The whole forms the finest assemblage of feudal ruins in Poitou. Bressuire is the seat of a sub-prefect and has a tribunal of first instance. Among the disasters suffered at various times by the town, its capture from the
English
  and subsequent pillage by French troops under du Guesclin in 1370 is the most memorable.


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