MONTDIDIER

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MONTDIDIER , a town of northern France,

capital

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

of an arrondissement in the department of Somme, 23 M. S.E. of Amiens by rail. Pop. (1906), 4159. The town, situated on an eminence on the right bank of the Don,

dates

DATES

from the Merovingian period, and perhaps owes its name to the imprisonment of the Lombard king Didier in the 8th century. The church of St Pierre, dating chiefly from the 15th century, has a beautiful portal of the 16th century and contains the tomb of Raoul III., count of Crepy (12th century), fonts of the 11th century and other works. of art. The church of St Sepulcre belongs, with the exception of the modern portal, to the 15th and 16th centuries. In the interior there is a well-known " Holy Sepulchre " of the
latter period. The law-court, once the castle, partly dating from the 12th century, possesses fine tapestries of the 17th century. A statue commemorates the

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

at Montdidier of Antoine Parmentier (17371813), with whose name are connected the beginnings of

potato

POTATO
POTATO (Solanum tuberosum)

-culture in France. The town has a sub-prefecture and a tribunal of first instance; its industries include tanning and the manufacture of zinc-white.
Held first by its own lords, afterwards by the

counts

COUNTS

of Crepy and Valois, Montdidier passed to the Crown in the 12th century, at the end of which it was granted a charter of liberties. The town offered a brave and successful resistance to the Spanish troops in 1636.
MONT-DORE-LES-BAINS, a watering-place of central France in the department of Puy-de-

Dome

DOME (Lat domus,
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)
; Ital. duomo, cathedral)

, situated at a height of 3440 ft., on the right bank of the Dordogne not far from its source, and 31 M. by road S.W. of Clermont-Ferrand. Pop. (1906), 1677. The Monts Dore close the valley towards the south. The thermal springs of Mont Dore, now numbering twelve, were known to the Romans. Bicarbonate of soda, iron and arsenic are the principal ingredients of the waters, which are used both for drinking and bathing, baths of high temperature being characteristic of the treatment; they are efficacious in cases of pulmonary consumption, bronchitis,

asthma

ASTHMA (Gr. avBľa, gasping, whence lio-Ogaivw, I gasp for breath)

, and nervous and rheumatic paralysis. From the

elevation

ELEVATION

and exposure of the valley, the climate of Mont-Dore-les-Bains is severe, and the season only lasts from the 15th of June to the 15th of September. The bath-

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)

was rebuilt in 18911894. In the " park," along the Dordogne, relics from the old Roman baths have been collected. The surrounding country, with its fir woods, pastures, waterfalls and mountains, is very attractive. To the south is the Puy de Sancy (6188 ft.), the loftiest peak of central France.

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