LIBOURNE

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LIBOURNE , a town of

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

-western France,

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of an arrondissement of the department of Gironde, situated at the confluence of the Isle with the Dordogne, 22 M. E.N.E. of Bordeaux on the railway to Angoule"me. Pop. (1906) town, 15,28o; commune, 19,323. The sea is 56 m. distant, but the tide affects the river so as to admit of vessels drawing 14 ft. reaching the town at the highest tides. The Dordogne is here crossed by a stone bridge 492 ft. long, and a suspension bridge across the Isle connects Libourne with Fronsac, built on a hill on which in feudal times stood a powerful fortress. Libourne is regularly built. The

Gothic

GOTHIC

church, restored in the 19th century, has a stone spire 232 ft. high. On the quay there is a machicolated clock-tower which is a survival of the ramparts of the 14th century; and the town-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, containing a small museum and a library, is a quaint relic. of the. 16th century. There is a statue of the Duc Decazes, who was born in the neighbourhood. The sub-prefecture, tribunals of first instance and of commerce, and a communal college are among the public institutions. The principal articles of commerce are the wines and brandies of the

district

DISTRICT

. Printing and

cooperage

COOPERAGE (from " cooper," a maker of casks, derived from such forms as Mid. Dutch
caper
- CAPER, FLAVIUS
, Ger. Kufer, Lat. cuparius; the same root is seen in various Teut. words for a basket, such as Dutch kuip and Eng. " kipe " and " coop, " but cooper is apparently not
COOPERAGE, or COPERAGE (Flemish and Dutch kooper, a trader, dealer)

are among the

industries

INDUSTRIES

.
Like other sites at the confluence of important rivers, that of Libourne was appropriated at an early period. Under the Romans Conflate stood rather more than a mile to the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

of the present Libourne; it was destroyed during the troubles of the 5th century. Resuscitated by Charlemagne, it was rebuilt in 1269, under its present name and on the site and plan it still retains, by Roger de Leybourne (of Leybourne in Kent),

seneschal

SENESCHAL (the O. Fr. form, mod. senechal, of the Low Lat. senescalcus, a word of Teutonic origin, meaning " old or senior servant," Goth. sini- old; cf. Lat. senex and stalks, servant; Du Cange's derivation from seneste, flock, herd, must be rejected)

of Guienne, acting under the authority of King

Edward

EDWARD

I. of England. It suffered considerably in the struggles of the French and English for the possession of Guienne in the 14th century.
See R. Guinodie, Hist. de Libourne (2nd ed., 2 vols., Libourne, 1876-1877).

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