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DOMFRONT

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 400 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DOMFRONT , a town of north-western France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of Orne, 43 M. W.N.W. of Alencon by rail. Pop. (1906) of the town, 2215; of the commune, 4663. The town, which is picturesquely situated on a bluff over-looking the Varenne, has a church, Notre-Dame-sur-l'Eau, dating from the 11th century. In the middle ages it was one of the
chief
  strongholds in Normandy, and there still remain several towers of its ramparts, and ruins of the keep of its castle built in 1011, rebuilt in the 12th century by
Henry
  II., king of England, and dismantled at the end of the 16th century. The town is the seat of a sub-prefect, and has a tribunal of first instance and a communal college. Cloth is manufactured, and there are granite quarries in the vicinity. Domfront is said to have grown up in the 6th century round the oratory of the hermit St Front, and played an important part in the wars against the
English and the Religious Wars. In 1574 it was occupied by the
Protestant
  leader Gabriel de Montgomery, who after a stubborn siege was forced to yield it to Jacques Goyon,
count
  of Matignon.


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