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Encyclopedia Britannica



LANNION

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 183 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LANNION , a town of north-western France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of
Cotes
 -du-Nord, on the right bank of the Leguer, 45 M. W.N.W. of St Brieuc by rail. Pop. (1go6) J336. Lannion is 5 M. in direct line from the mouth of the Leguer; its port does a small trade (exports of agricultural produce, imports of wine, salt, timber, &c.), and there is an-LA NOUE 183
active fishing industry. The town contains many houses of the 15th and 16th centuries and other old buildings, the
chief
  of which is the church of St Jean-du-Baly (16th and 17th centuries). On an eminence close to Lannion is the church of Brelevenez of the 12th century, restored in the 15th or 16th century; it has an interesting 16th-century Holy Sepulchre.
Some 6 in. S.E. of the town are the imposing ruins of the chateau of Tonquedec (c. 1400) styled the "
Pierrefonds
  of Brittany," and there are other buildings of antiquarian
interest
  in the vicinity. The
coast
  north of Lannion at Tregastel and Ploumanac presents curious
rock
  formations.
Lannion is ;he seat of a subprefect and has a tribunal of first instance and a communal college. Its
industries
  include saw-milling, tanning and the manufacture of farm implements. The town was taken in 1346 by the English; it was defended against them by
Geoffroy
  de Pontblanc whose valour is commemorated by a
cross
  close to the spot where he was slain.


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