TREGUIER
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TREGUIER , a port of western France, in the department of Cotes -du-Nord, 36 m. N.W. of St Brieuc by road. Pop. (1906), 2605. The port is situated about 52 m. from the English Channel at the confluence of two streams that form the Treguier river; it carries on fishing and a coasting and small foreign trade . The cathedral , remarkable in having three towers over the transept, one of which is surmounted by a fine spire, dates from the 14th and 15th centuries. It contains the sumptuous modern mausoleum of St Yves (d. 1303), a canon of the cathedral , the building of which was largely due to him. To the south of the church See Also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
there is a cloister (latter half of the 15th century) with graceful arcades. There is a statue of Ernest Renan , a native of the town. Saw-milling, boat-building and flax-stripping are carried on, together with trade in cereals, cloth, potatoes, &c.
Treguier (Trecorum), which dates from the 6th century, grew up round a monastery founded by St Tugdual. In the 9th century it became the seat of a bishopric, suppressed in 1790.
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