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Encyclopedia Britannica



PONTIVY

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 67 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PONTIVY , a town of western France,
chief
  town of an arrondissement in the department of
Morbihan
 , 46 m. N.N.W. of Vannes by rail. Pop. (1906), 6312 (town); 9506 (commune). The town, situated on the Blavet, at its confluence with the Nantes-Brest canal, comprises two distinct partsthe old town and that to the
south
  known as Napoleonville. The latter, built by order of
Napoleon
  I., who desired to make it the military headquarters for Brittany, and consisting chiefly of barracks, subsequently gave its name to the whole town, but in 1871 the old name was resumed. The ancient castle (1485) of the dukes
of Rohan, whose
capital
  the town was, is occupied by the Musee le Brigant of art and archaeology. A
monument
  to commemorate the
Breton
 -Angevin Union, the deputies of which met at Pontivy in 1790, was erected in 1894, and there are statues of Dr Guepin, a democrat, and General de Lourmel (d. 1854). The town has a sub-prefecture, a tribunal of first instance, and a lycee for boys. Pontivy had its origin in a monastery founded in the 7th century by St Ivy, a monk of Lindisfarne.
PONT-L'ABB$, a town of western France in the department of Finistere, r3 m. S.W. of Quimper by rail. Pop. (1906), of the town 4485, of the commune 6432. The town is situated on the right bank of the estuary or river of Pont-l'Abbe, 2 M. from the sea. Its port carries on fishing, imports timber, coal, &c., and exports mine-props and the cereals and vegetables of the neighbourhood. Of the old buildings of the town the
chief
  is a church of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, once attached to a Carmelite convent; an old castle is occupied by the hotel de ville. The local costumes, trimmed with the
bright
 -coloured embroideries for which the town is noted, are among the most striking in Brittany; the bigouden or head-dress of the women has given its name to the inhabitants. Pont-l'Abbe carries on flour-milling and the extraction of chemicals from 'seaweed.


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