MONTMORENCI 



MONTPELU1ER 



the Meuse by forest tracks through 

 the Woevre, but he marched into 

 the midst of the 13th German corps 

 on Aug. 29, and was captured 

 with 700 of his men. Throughout 

 the war Montme'dy was an impor- 

 tant centre on the German main 

 line of communications. It was 

 recovered by the Allies in Nov., 

 1918. Pop. 2,800. 



Montmorenci, ANNE, Due DE 

 (1492-1567). French soldier. 



Born at Chantilly, March 15, 1492, 

 by 1522 he had 

 become a mar- 

 shal, having 

 distinguished 

 himself at 

 Marignano, 

 1515, and at 

 the defence of 

 Mezieres,1521. 

 In 1525, with 

 Francis I, he 

 was defeated 

 and taken 

 prisoner at Pavia, but on the 

 renewal of the war in 1536 he 

 defeated Charles V at Susa, 

 forced him to raise the siege of 

 Marseilles, and two years later 

 was made constable of France. In 

 1548 he crushed the insurrection- 

 ary movement in the S.W. of 

 France, and he took part in the 

 war in the Boulonnais, 1549-50, 

 and the disaster at St. Quentin, 

 1557. He was mortally wounded 

 at St. Denis in 1567, fighting against 

 the Huguenots, and died in Paris 

 on Nov. 12 of that year. 



Montmorenci, HENRI, Dec DE 

 (1595-1632). French soldier. A 

 grandson of Anne de Montmorenci, 

 he played a 

 prominent 

 part in the 

 fighting 

 against the 

 Huguenots 

 which began 

 in 1621. For 

 his defeat of 

 the Spaniards 

 in Piedmont 

 in 1630 he 

 was made a 

 marshal. In 1632 he embraced the 

 cause of Gaston d' Orleans, but was 

 defeated at Castelnaudary, and 

 executed at Toulouse, Oct. 30, 1632. 

 Montmorency. River of Que- 

 bec, Canada. A tributary of the 

 St. Lawrence, it rises in the pro- 

 vince, and flowing almost due 

 south for about 80 m., falls into 

 the larger river near Quebec. It 

 is noted for the falls near the 

 mouth, reached from Quebec, 8 m. 

 away, by an electric rly. They are 

 265 ft. high, and are used for sup- 

 plying Quebec with electric power. 

 The river is associated with 

 Wolfe's attempt on Quebec in 1759. 



Mont Orgueil 

 Castle. Pictur- 

 esque ruin on the 

 island of Jersey, 

 accessible by rly. 

 from St. Helier. 

 Standing on a 

 rocky pinnacle 

 dominating the 

 village and har- 

 bour of Gorey, 

 on the E. of the 

 island, it was be- 

 gun in the 10th 

 century by the 

 dukes of Nor- 

 mandy, and was 

 given its name by the duke of 

 Clarence, brother of Henry V. It 

 successfully withstood a siege by 

 the French in 1374. William 

 Prynne (q.v.), while a prisoner here, 

 1637-40, wrote the poem Mount 

 Orgueil, or Divine and Profitable 

 Meditations, raised from the Con- 

 templation of these three Leaves 

 of Nature's Volume : Rockes, Seas, 

 Gardens. The castle was vested in 

 the States by the crown in 1905. 



Montoro (anc. Epora). Town 

 of Spain, in the prov. of Cordova. 

 It stands on a peninsula caused by 



the winding of 



the Guadalquivir, 

 here spanned by 

 a fine 16th century 

 bridge, 27 m. by 

 rly. N.N.E. of 

 Cordova. It pro- 

 duces olive oil and 

 trades in timber, 

 Montoro arms catt i e> e tc. Once 

 a Moorish fortress, it has many 

 Roman, Gothic, and Moorish re- 

 mains. There are medicinal springs 

 in the neighbourhood. Pop. 15,100. 

 Montpelier. Suburb of Bristol, 

 England. It has a rly. station on 

 the G.W. & M. Rlys, and lies E. of 

 Clifton on the N. side of the city. 

 Pop. 6,000. 



Montpelier. City of Vermont, 

 U.S.A., the capital of the state and 

 the co. seat of Washington co. On 

 the Winooski river, 41 m. by rly. 

 E. by S. of Burlington, it is served 

 by the Montpelier and Wells and 

 the Central Vermont Rlys. It has 

 a fine capitol. Other buildings 

 include the court house, city hall, 

 art galleries, state library, and 

 grammar school. Manufactures 

 include lumber, saddlery, hard- 

 wares, and saw mill products, and 

 granite is extensively worked. Set- 

 tled in 1787, Montpelier became the 

 capital of the state in 1805, was 

 incorporated in 1855, and chartered 

 as a city in 1894. Pop. 7,100. 



Montpellier. Town of France, 

 capital of the dept. of Herault. It 

 stands on a hill 7 m. inland from 

 the sea at Palavas, and 31 m. by 

 rly. S.W. of Nimes, is the junction 



Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey, with the harbour and village 

 of Gorey, from the St. Helier road 



of several rly. lines, and is the 

 headquarters of an army corps. 

 Its university, founded in 1289, and 

 reconstituted in 1896 after sup- 

 pression in 1794, is noted for its 

 faculty of medicine. It has dis- 

 tilleries, tanneries, and printing 

 works, leather, chocolate, and 

 candle industries, and trades in 

 corn, wine, and silk. The cathe- 

 dral, a 14th century foundation, 

 is chiefly modern, with a remark- 

 able porch. The church of S. 

 Anne is also modern. The Musee 

 Fabre contains a large collection of 

 paintings, French and Dutch 

 schools being specially well repre- 

 sented, and houses also the town 

 library. The botanical gardens 

 were founded 1593, and are the 

 oldest in France. The Peyrou is a 

 promenade originally laid out in 

 the 17th century, with a lofty 

 aqueduct and ornamental basin. 



Montpellier dates probably from 

 the 8th century, gained a charter 

 in 1141, and in the 16th century 

 developed an autonomous constitu- 

 tion. A centre of Calvinism, it was 

 taken by Louis XIII in 1622. Be- 

 fore the Revolution it was the 

 capital of Languedoc. Pop. 80,000. 



^iontpellier, France. Porehway and 

 towers oJ the cathedral oJ S. Pierre 



