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Encyclopedia Britannica



CORBEIL

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 136 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
CORBEIL , a town of northern France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of Seine-et-Oise, at the confluence of the Essonne with the Seine, 21 m. S. by E. of Paris on the Orleans railway to Nevers. Pop. (1906) 9756. A bridge across the Seine unites the main part of the town on the left bank with a suburb on the other side; handsome boulevards lead to the
village
  of Essonnes (pop. 7255), about a mile to the
south
 -west. St Spire, the only survivor of the formerly numerous churches of Corbeil,
dates
  from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Behind the church there is a
Gothic
  gateway. A
monument
  has been erected to the brothers Galignani, publishers of Paris, who gave a
hospital
 
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and orphanage to the town. Corbeil is the seat of a sub-prefect, and has tribunals of first instance and commerce and a chamber of commerce. It has important flour-mills, tallow-works, printing-works, large
paper
 -works at Essonnes, and carries on boat and carriage-building, and the manufacture of plaster. The Decauville engineering works are in the vicinity. There is trade in grain and flour.
From the loth to the 12th century Corbeil was the
chief
  town of a powerful countship, but it was united to the crown by Louis VI.; it continued for a long time to be an important military post in connexion with the commissariat of Paris. In 1258 St Louis concluded a treaty here with James I. of Aragon. Of the numerous sieges to which it has been exposed the most important were those by the Huguenots in 1562, and by Alexander Farnese, prince of Parma, in 1590.


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