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Encyclopedia Britannica



BRIARE

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 516 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRIARE , a town of north-central France in the department of Loiret on the right bank of the Loire, 452 M. S.E. of Orleans on the railway to Nevers. Pop. (1906) 4613. Briare, the Brivodorum of the Romans, is situated at the extremity of the Canal of Briare, which unites the Loire and its lateral canal with the Loing and so with the Seine. The canal of Briare was constructed from 16o5 to 1642 and is about 36 m. long. The
industries
  include the manufacture of fine pottery, and of so-called
porcelain
  buttons made of felspar and milk by a
special
  process; its inventor, Bapterosses, has a bust in the town. The canal traffic is in
wood
 , iron, coal, building materials, &c. A modern
hospital
 
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and church, and the hotel de ville installed in an old moated chateau, are the
chief
  buildings. The lateral canal of the Loire crosses the Loire near Briare by a fine canal-bridge 720 yds. in length.


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