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Encyclopedia Britannica



BRIOUDE

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 573 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BRI-BUN
BRIOUDE , a town of central France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of Haute-Loire, on the left bank of the
Allier
 , 1467 ft. above the sea, 47 M. N.W. of Le Puy on the Paris-Lyon railway. Pop. (1006) 4585. Brioude has to a
great
  extent escaped modernization and still has many old' houses and fountains. Its streets are narrow and irregular, but the town is surrounded by wide boulevards lined with trees. The only building of consequence is the church of St Julian (12th and 13th centuries) in the Romanesque style of Auvergne, of which the choir, with its
apse
  and radiating chapels and the mosaic ornamentation of the exterior, is a fine example. Brioude is the seat of a sub-prefect, and of tribunals of first instance and of commerce. The plain in which it is situated is of
great
  fertility; the grain trade of the town is considerable, and market-gardening is carried on in the outskirts. The
industries
  include brewing, saw-milling, lace-making and antimony mining and
founding
 .
Brioude, the ancient Brisas, was formerly a place of consider-able importance. It was in turn besieged and captured by the Goths (532), the Burgundians, the Saracens (732) and the Normans. In 1181 the viscount of Polignac, who had sacked the town two years previously, made public apology in front of the church, and established a
body
  of twenty-five knights to defend the relics of St Julian. For some time after 1361 the town was the headquarters of Berenger, lord of Castelnau, who was at the head of one of the bands of military adventurers which then devastated France. The knights (or canons, as they afterwards became) of St Julian bore the title of
counts
  of Brioude, and for a long time opposed themselves to the civic liberties of the inhabitants.


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