Identifier: colliersnewencyc01newy (find matches)
Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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de Stael (1878); andof several poems. But his fame restsprincipally on the Journal. He died inGeneva, March 11, 1881. AMIENS (am-yan), an old Frenchcity, the capital once of Picardy, andnow of the department of Somme, onthe many-channelled navigable Somme,81 miles N. of Paris by rail. The Cathe-dral of Notre Dame is a masterpieceof Gothic architecture. Begun in 1220,it is 452 feet long, and has a spire(1529) 426 feet high; but its specialfeature is the loftiness of the nave, 141feet. Other noteworthy buildings arethe Hotel de Ville (1600-1760), in whichthe Peace of Amiens was signed, thelarge museum (1864), in Renaissancestyle; and the public library, which was AMIENS 148 AMIENS founded in 1791, and contains 70,000 vol- tained possession of Ceylon and Trini- umes. Amiens has considerable manu- dad, and an open port at the Cape of factures of velvet, silk, woolen, and cot- Good Hope; the republic of the Ionian ton goods, ribbons, and carpets. Peter islands was recognized; Malta was re-
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CATHEDRAL AT AMIENS, FRANCE the Hermit and Ducange were natives,and there are statues to both of them.The Peace of Amiens (March 27, 1802)was a treaty intended to settle the dis-puted points botween England, France,Spain, and Holland. By it, England re- stored to the Knights of St. John; Spainand Holland regained their colonies, withthe exception of Trinidad and Cey-lon; the French were to quit Rome andNaples; and Turkey was restored to itsintegrity. In the Franco-Prussian War, AMMEBGAU 149 AMMUNITION on Nov. 27, 1870, General ManteufFel in-flicted, near Amiens, a signal defeat ona French army 30,000 strong, and threedays later the citadel surrendered. Inthe World War (1914-1918) it was amilitary center and railroad supplydepot. It was an objective of the Ger-mans in the last great drive in April,1918, and narrowly escaped capture, butwas badly damaged by German artilleryfire. Pop. about 95,000. AMMEKGAIT (amer-gou), OBER-and UNTER-, two adjoining villages inUpper Bavaria, in the high

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