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Encyclopedia Britannica



MONTBRISON

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 761 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MONTBRISON , a town of
east
 -central France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of Loire, France, 21 m. N.W. of St
Etienne
 , on the railway from Clermont to St
Etienne
 . Pop. (1906), 6564. It is situated on a volcanic hill overlooking the Vizezy, a right-hand affluent of the Lignon du Nord. The
principal
  buildings are the once collegiate church of Notre-Dame d'Esperance, founded about 1220 but not finished till the 15th century, and the 14th-century edifice known as the Salle de la Diana (Decana), which was restored by Viollet-le-Duc. There is a statue of the poet
Victor
  de
Laprade
  (d. 1883), a native of the town. Montbrison is the seat of a sub-prefect, of a court of
assize
  and of a tribunal of first instance. There are liqueur-distilleries and flour-mills, and silk ribbons are manufactured; there is considerable commerce in
grain
 .
Montbrison belonged to the
counts
  of Forez during the middle ages. In 1801 it became the
capital
  of its department in place of Feurs, but in 1856 the more important town of St. Etienne was substituted for it.


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