. Southern France, including Corsica: handbook for travellers. numerous narrow and tortuous streets, with manyold timber-built houses. At the time of the Roman conquest this town was the capital ofthe Lemovices, a powerful Gallic tribe, able to send 10,000 men to thesuccour of Alesia. After its incorporation with the Roman empire it had asenate and abounded in fine buildings, such as temples, theatres, palaces,public baths, etc., of which, however, scarcely any trace remains. St. Mar-tial, the patron-saint of the Limousin, first preached the Gospel town preserved a part of Its importa
. Southern France, including Corsica: handbook for travellers. numerous narrow and tortuous streets, with manyold timber-built houses. At the time of the Roman conquest this town was the capital ofthe Lemovices, a powerful Gallic tribe, able to send 10,000 men to thesuccour of Alesia. After its incorporation with the Roman empire it had asenate and abounded in fine buildings, such as temples, theatres, palaces,public baths, etc., of which, however, scarcely any trace remains. St. Mar-tial, the patron-saint of the Limousin, first preached the Gospel town preserved a part of Its importance down to the Middle Ages,hut unfortunately it formed two distinct towns, often at rivalry with eachother, and it suffered much during the English wars, especially in 1370,when it was taken and sacked. The Religious Wars, plague, and faminedesolated it afresh in the 16th cent., and in 1630-31 it again suffered froma terrible visitation of the plague. Under the administration of Turgot(d. 1781) it began to revive, but a terrible fire consumed nearly 200 of.
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