nces
protestants d'Allemagne_, par Monseigneur le duc d' Angouleme (1620);
(3) a translation of a Spanish work by Diego de Torres. To him has
also been ascribed the work, _La generale et fidele Relation de tout
ce qui s'est passe en l'isle de Re, envoyee par le roi a la royne sa
mere_ (Paris, 1627).
ANGOULEME, a city of south-western France, capital of the department
of Charente, 83 m. N.N.E. of Bordeaux on the railway between Bordeaux
and Poitiers. Pop. (1906) 30,040. The town proper occupies an elevated
promontory, washed on the north by the Charente and on the south
and west by the Anguienne, a small tributary of that river. The more
important of the suburbs lie towards the east, where the promontory
joins the main plateau, of which it forms the north-western extremity.
The main line of the Orleans railway passes through a tunnel beneath
the town. In place of its ancient fortifications Angouleme is
encircled by boulevards known as the _Remparts_, from which fine views
may be obtained in all directions. Within the town the streets are
often dark and narrow, and, apart from the cathedral and the hotel
de ville, the architecture is of little interest. The cathedral of
St. Pierre (see CATHEDRAL), a church in the Byzantine-Romanesque style,
dates from the 11th and 12th centuries, but has undergone frequent
restoration, and was partly rebuilt in the latter half of the igth
century by the architect Paul Abadie. The facade, flanked by two
towers with cupolas, is decorated with arcades filled in with statuary
and sculpture, the whole representing the Last Judgment. The crossing
is surmounted by a dome, and the extremity of the north transept by
a fine square tower over 160 ft. high. The hotel de ville, also by
Abadie, is a handsome modern structure, but preserves two towers of
the chateau of the counts of Angouleme, on the site of which it is
built. It contains museums of paintings and archaeology. Angouleme is
the seat of a bishop, a prefect, and a court of assizes. Its public
institutions include tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a
council of trade-arbitrators, a chamber of commerce and a branch of
the Bank of France. It also has a lycee, training-colleges, a school
of artillery, a library and several learned societies. It is a centre
of the paper-making industry, with which the town has been connected
since the 14th century. Most of the mills are situated on the banks
of the watercourses in the neighbour
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