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Encyclopedia Britannica



DIGNE

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 269 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DIGNE , the
chief
  town of the department of the Basses Alpes, in S.E. France, 14 M. by a branch line from the main railway line between
Grenoble
  and Avignon. Pop. (1906), town, 4628; commune, 7456. The Ville Haute is built on a mountain spur running down to the left bank of the Bleone river, and is composed of a labyrinth of narrow winding streets, above which towers the present
cathedral
  church, dating from the end of the 15th century, but largely reconstructed in modern times, and the former
bishop
 's palace (now the prison). The fine Boulevard Gassendi separates the Ville Haute from the Ville Basse, which is of modern date. The old
cathedral
  (Notre Dame du Bourg) is a building of the 13th century, but is now disused except for funerals: it stands at the
east
  end of the Ville Basse. The neighbourhood of Digne is rich in orchards, which have
long
  made the town famous in France for its preserved fruits and confections. It is the Dinia of the Romans, and was the
capital
  of the Bodiontii. From the early 6th century at least it has been an episcopal see, which till 1790 was in the ecclesiastical province of Embrun, but since 1802 in that of Aix en
Provence
 . The history of Digne in the middleages is bound up with that of its bishops, under whom it prospered greatly. But it suffered much during the religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries, when it was sacked several times. A little way off, above the right bank of the Bleone, is Champtercier, the birthplace of the astronomer Gassendi (1592-1655), whose name has been given to the principal thoroughfare of the little town.
See F.
Guichard
 , Souvenirs historiques sur la ville de Digne et ses environs (Digne, 1847). (W. A. B. C.)


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