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Encyclopedia Britannica



UZES

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 829 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
UZES , a town of southern France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of Gard, finely situated on an
eminence
  above the Alzon, 16 m. N. by E. of Nimes by road. Pop. (1906) 4008. Uzes, the seat of an episcopal see from the 5th century to 1790, has a
cathedral
  almost destroyed by the Protestants during the religious wars and rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries, but still flanked by a round tower of five storeys lighted by arched openings and dating from the 12th century. The Duche, a chateau of powerful lords, at first viscounts, and in 1565 dukes, of Uzes, preserves a donjon originally of the 12th century; the main building, flanked by a
Gothic
  chapel, is Renaissance in style. The most ancient structure in the town is a crypt beneath a private
house
 , attributed to the early centuries of the Christian era. The sub-prefecture and the tribunal of first instance occupy the old
bishop
 's palace (17th century). There is a statue of
Admiral
  Brueys (1753-1798), a native of the town. Uzes has a communal college for boys, and carries on the manufacture of silk, bricks and fireproof earthenware, and liquorice, and
trade
  in the truffles for which the
district
  is noted.


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