NANTES 



S. Pierre. 



France. 



West front of the cathedral of 

 The towers are unfinished, bat the portals 

 are elaborately ornamented 



in the Middle Ages was for a time 

 the capital of the duchy of Brit- 

 tany. It was fortified and besieged 

 several times in civil and other 

 ware. From Nantes, Charles, the 

 Young Pretender, who had for 

 some time lived here disguised, 

 embarked in a brig on his expedi- 

 tion in 1745. The river was the 

 if the worst horrors of the 

 Reign of Terror, about 9,000 per- 

 sons being drowned in its waters. 

 In the Great War it was on the line 

 of communications bet ween the port 

 of St. Nazaire and Paris, the route 

 being used by some of the British 

 forces in 1914, and by the 

 Americans at a later date. Pop. 

 170,500. 



Nantes, EDICT OP. Law or edict 

 issued in 1598 by Henry IV of 

 France, giving liberty of worship 

 to the Huguenots. The accession of 

 the Protestant Henry of Navarre 

 to the throne of France in 1589 

 and his conversion to Roman 

 Catholicism brought no immediate 

 r.-lirf to the Huguenots, who still 

 sunVn-d serious disabilities, despite 

 the various pacifications attempted 

 in tin- course of nearly 40 years of 

 religious warfare. At length meet- 

 ings were arranged between the 

 king and the Protestant leaders, 

 and the edict signed at Nantes by 

 . April 15, 1598, contained a 

 large number uf articles, the effect 

 of \\ liich was io give civil and some 

 rcli-ious liberty to the Huguenots. 



Tlu-y could hold meetings for 

 worship in certain specified places, 

 although not in Paris. They could 

 till official positions and enter uni- 



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etc., while tli.-ir 



rtors were paid 

 the state. 

 'I'iii-v i-niilil trade 

 freely and mli'-nt 

 |in.|i.-rty. As se- 

 curity they were 

 given 100 places 

 as cities of refuge, 

 and disputes 

 about the edict 

 were heard before 

 special courts in 

 which they were 

 represented 

 among the judges. 

 These courts 

 were connected 

 with the vari- 

 ous parlements. 

 The edict was re- 

 voked by Louis 

 XIV in Oct., 

 1685, after the 

 Huguenots had 

 been steadily 

 losing their rights 

 under it for some 

 years. See France: 

 History. 



Nanteuil, ROBERT (c. 1623-78). 

 French engraver. He was born at 

 Reims, and about 1646 entered the 



NANTWICH 



Derby wa produced. Thence he 

 in 1796, to i'mxton, and in 

 > Torkaey, opening a pottery 

 in both place*, and finally to Nant- 

 garw. HIH Nantgarw pottery a 

 unique, the fine body of even tex- 

 ture being more like glana than 

 china. Pieces are comparatively 

 rare. He decorated some with 

 flowers, but most of his china WM 

 decorated by other potters. See 

 Pottery. 



Nanticoke. Bor. of Pennsyl- 

 vania, U.S.A., in Luzerne co. It 

 stands on the Susquehanna river, 

 7 m. S.W. of Wilkes-Barre, and is 

 served by the Pennsylvania and 

 other rlys. Anthracite coal is ex- 

 tensively worked, and hosiery, silk 

 and cigars are manufactured. 

 Nanticoke was incorporated in 

 1874. Pop. 22,600. 



Nantucket. Town of Massa- 

 chusetts, U.S.A., the co. seat of 

 Nantucket co. It stands on the N. 

 coast of Nantucket island, which 

 with adjacent islands forms the co., 

 has steamboat communication with 

 several ports on the mainland and 

 neighbouring islands, and is served 

 by a narrow gauge rly. Pop. 2,800. 

 The island covers an area of 48 

 sq. m. Agriculture and fishing are 

 carried on by the inhabitants. 



Nantucket, Massachusetts. The t 



studio of Nicholas Regnesson at 

 Paris. In 1658 he was appointed 

 engraver and designer to the king. 

 By this time he had evolved a clear 

 and beautiful 

 method of en- 

 graving, and 

 his crayon 

 portraits were 

 also esteemed. 

 Engraved por- 

 traits of his 

 own design in- 

 cluded several 



Robert Hanteoil, f Louis XIV 

 French engraver and the Prince 



S.I /- portrait o f Cond6. 



Nantgarw. Village of Glamor- 

 ganshire. In the valley of the Taff, 

 it is 5 m. from Cardiff. It gives 

 its name to a variety of china. In 

 1811 Billingsley, the tlower painter, 

 opened a factory here. He had 

 been associated with Duesbury at 

 the famous works where Crown 



the harbour 



Nantwich. Urban dist. and 

 market town of Cheshire. It stands 

 on the Weaver, 16 1 -m. from Lon- 

 don, and 4 m. 

 from Crewe, and 

 is served by the 

 G.W. and L. & 

 N.VV. Rlys. The 

 chief building is 

 the old cruci- 

 form church of 

 Nantwich arms S. Mary and S. 

 Nicholas. There are a 17th century 

 grammar school and some old 

 houses. The industries include 

 the manufacture of boots, shoes, 

 and clothing. Nantwich is a 

 hunting centre and has a spa. 

 For long it was the centre of the salt 

 industry, but this has now dis- 

 appeared. Nantwich had fairs 

 and markets in the Middle Ages, 

 and the salt was worked very early. 

 The works were especially prosper- 

 ous in the 16th- 18th centuries, after 



