NOTRE DAME BAY 



5788 



NOTTINGHAM 



See Artois, l.altle 

 of ; C a r e n o y ; 

 Souohez; Viiuy; 

 consult Wrack of 

 War, J. A. Hani- 

 merton, 1918. 



Notre Dame 

 de Paris. Ro- 

 mance of medieval 

 Paris by Victor 

 Hugo, first 

 published in 

 1831. Full of 



there are 37 

 chapels, and 

 beautiful old glass 

 in the rose win 

 d o w s of the 

 transepts, be- 

 tween which rises 

 the 315-ft. spire. 

 See Apse ; Paris. 



Notre Dame 

 Bay. Arm of the 

 Atlantic Ocean, 

 on the N. coast of 

 Newfoundland. It 

 lies between Cape St. John and 

 Fogo Island, a distance of 45 in. ; 

 the E. end contains an extensive 

 archipelago in the Bay of Exploits. 



Notre Dame de Lor ette. Ridge 

 of France, in the dept. of Pas-de- 

 Calais. Rising sharply from Ab- 

 lain-St. Nazaire, it runs about 6 m. 

 E. and W., is about 590 ft. in 

 height, and commands an exten- 

 sive view over Arras, Lens, and the 

 plain of the Lys. Its W. end near 

 the Bois d'Olhain was occupied for 

 a brief time by the Germans in 



1914, but until 1915 they held and 

 strongly fortified the E. spur, on 

 which stood the chapel of Notre 

 Dame de Lorette, from which the 

 hill took its name. This height 

 was stormed by the French May 9, 



1915. The Allies gained the Lor- 

 ette plateau as the result of the 

 battle of Loos (q.v. ). The founda- 

 tion stone of the war memorial 

 to be erected on the spot where 

 the chapel formerly stood was 

 laid by Petain in June, 1921. 



she displaced 5,400 tons, hail a 

 speed of 25 knots, nine 0-in. guns, 

 and two torpedo lulu 



Nottingham. City, pail, and 

 co. borough, market town, and tlm 

 co. town of Nottinghamshire, KIIL-, 

 land. It stands 

 on the N. bank 

 of the Trent, 

 I2: in. N.W. of 

 London, and is 



served l.y the 



Midland, G.N., 



and G.C. Klys., 



and also by Nottingham arms 



canals. Its area, since the extension 



of the boundaries in 18V7. is lo.'.i:;:- 



acres. 1 1 was made aorty in IS',17. 



Pop. (1921). 2iL'.(i;.s. 



The town probably originated 

 in an Anglo-Saxon settlement. 

 It was later a Danish burgh. It 



Was SOOn rceoveied IV;illl the 



Danes, and Edward the Elder is 

 said to have walled the town, 



character, excit- 

 ing incident, and 

 vivid action, it 

 ranks as one of 

 its author's 

 masterpieces o f 

 fiction. Quasi- 

 modo, the Hunch- 

 back of Notre 

 D a m e., and 

 Esmeralda, the 

 gypsy girl with 

 her goat, Djali, 

 are among the 

 familiar figures of 

 fiction. 



Nottingham. 

 British light 

 cruiser. She took part in the Dogger 

 Bank (1915) and Jutland (1'Jlti) 

 battles, and was torpedoed and 

 sunk in the North Sea, Aug. 19 : 

 1916, when 38 of her crew were 

 lost. The Nottingham was of the 

 Chatham (q.v.) class, to which the 

 Birmingham, Sydney, and other 

 vessels oelong. Completed in 1914, 



Nottingham. 1. Guildhall, headquarters of the municipal 



activities. 2. The castle, occupying the rocky site of 



the Norman fortress. 3. S. Mary's, the chief of the 



city's churches 



Frill, 



to have built a bridge across the 

 river, and to have erected a mint 

 here. A castle was built on the 

 site of the present structure by a 

 follower of William I. 



In the Middle Ages Nottingham 

 was an important borough and its 

 castle a regular royal residence It 

 received charters making it a 



Notre Dame de Lorette, France. 



General view of the hill, with ruins of the church o! Ablain-St. Nazaire in right 

 foreground 



