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Encyclopedia Britannica



VITRE

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 149 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
VITRE , a town of north-western France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, situated on a hill rising from the left bank of the Vilaine, 24 M. E. of Rennes by rail. Pop. (1906) town, 7106; commune, 10,092. The town largely retains its feudal aspect. The ramparts on the north side and on the west, consisting of a machicolated
wall
  with towers at intervals, are still
standing
 . Only one gateway remains of the
original
  castle, founded towards the end of the 1th century; the rest was rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries (the best period of
Breton
  military architecture) and restored in
recent
  times. It is now occupied by a prison, a museum of natural history and painting and the town library. The church of Notre-Dame, formerly a priory of the abbeyof St Melaine of Rennes;
dates
  from the 15th and 16th centuries. An outside stone pulpit is a fine example of 16th-century sculpture. The church possesses a fine enamelled triptych of the 16th century. A tower of the 16th century is all that remains of the church of St Martin. The chateau of Les Rochers 3 m. from Vitre was the residence of Madame de Sevigne.
Vitre was formerly a
Breton
  barony, and belonged in the loth century to the younger branch of the
counts
  of Rennes. In 1295 it passed to Guy IX., baron of Laval, on his
marriage
  with the heiress, and afterwards successively belonged to the families of Rieux, Coligny and La Tremoille. The town was seized by Charles VIII. in 1488. Protestantism spread under the rule of the houses of Rieux and Coligny; Vitre became a Huguenot stronghold; and a
Protestant
  church was established, which was not suppressed till the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685. Philip Emmanuel, duke of Mercceur, the head of the members of the League in Brittany, besieged the town in vain for five months in .1589. The estates of Brittany, over which the barons of Vitre and of Leon alternately presided, met here several times.


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