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Encyclopedia Britannica



GAILLAC

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 387 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GAILLAC , a town of
south
 -western France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of Tarn, on the right bank of the Tarn, 15 M. W. of Albi on the railway from that city to Toulouse. Pop. (1906) town, 5388; commune, 7535. The churches of St Michel and St Pierre, both dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, have little architectural importance. There are some interesting houses, one of which, the Maison Yversen, of the Renaissance, is remarkable for the rich carving of its doors. The public institutions include the sub-prefecture, a tribunal of first instance, and a communal college. Its
industries
  include the manufacture of lime and wooden shoes, while dyeing,
wood
 -sawing and flour-milling are also carried cn; it has a consider-able trade in grain, flour, vegetables, dried plams, anise,
coriander
 , &c,, and in wine, the white and red wines of the arrondissement having a high reputation. Gaillac grew up round the
Benedictine
  abbey of'St Michel, founded in the loth century.


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