BRIVE

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BRIVE , or BRIVES-LA-GAILLARDE, a town of south-central France,

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of an arrondissement in the department of Correze, 62 m. S.S.E. of

Limoges

LIMOGES

on the main line of the Orleans railway from Paris to

Montauban

MONTAUBAN
MONTAUBAN, ARTHUR DE (d. 1479)

. Pop. (1906) town 14,954; commune 20,636. It lies on the left bank of the Correze in an ample and fertile plain, which is the meeting-place of important roads and railways. The enceinte which formerly surrounded the town has been replaced by shady boulevards, and a few wide thoroughfares have been made, but many narrow winding streets and ancient houses still remain. Outside the boulevards lie the modern quarters, also the fine

promenade

PROMENADE

planted with plane trees which stretches to the Correze and contains the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

restaurants and the theatre. Here also is the statue of Marshal Guillaume Marie Anne

Brune

BRUNE, GUILLAUME MARIE ANNE (1763-1815)

, who was a native of Brive. A fine bridge leads over the river to suburbs on its right bank. The public buildings are of little

interest

INTEREST

apart from the church of St Martin, which stands in the heart of the old town. It is a building of the 12th century in the Romanesque style of Limousin, with three narrow naves of almost equal height. The ecclesiastical seminary occupies a graceful mansion of the 16th century, with a facade, a staircase and fireplaces of fine Renaissance workmanship. Brive is the seat of a sub-prefect
and has a tribunal of first instance, a tribunal of commerce, a communal college and a school of industry. Its position makes it a market of importance, and it has a very large trade in the early vegetables and fruit of the valley of the Correze, and in grain, live-stock and truffles. Table-delicacies,

paper

PAPER
PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

, wooden shoes, hats, wax and earthenware are manufactured, and there are slate and millstone workings and dye-works.
In the vicinity are numerous rock caves, many of them having been used as dwellings in prehistoric times. The best known are those of Lamouroux, excavated in stages in a vertical

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

of rock, and four grotto-chapels resorted to by pilgrims in memory of St Anthony of Padua, who founded a Franciscan monastery at Brive in 1226. Under the Romans Brive was known as Briva Curretiae (bridge of the Correze). In the middle ages it was the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of lower Limousin.

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