| Modern geography - 1852 - 176 pages
...weeks in visiting them. In the cathedral church of Bayeux, in Normandy, is preserved a suit of tapestry said to be the work of Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, representing the progress and termination of the grand contest between her husband and the English... | |
| Theophilus Carey Callicot - Geography - 1853 - 874 pages
...town of Asia-Minor, pash. Anatolia. P. 2,000. BAVEUX, a city of Frunce, dep. Calvado», on the Aure. P. 9,106. It has a venerable cathedral, in which is...conquest of Engl. BAYLEN-, a town of Spain, prov. Jaén. P. 4,976. The capitulation of Baylen, the commencement of the French disasters in tho Peninsula,... | |
| G.P. Putnam & Co - 1853 - 866 pages
...town of Asia-Minor, pash. Anatolia. P. 2,000. BAYEUX, a city of France, dep. Calvados, on the Aure. P. 9,106. It has a venerable cathedral, in which is...the work of Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, & representing his exploits in the conquest of Engl. BAYLEN, a town of Spain, prov. Jaen. P. 4,976.... | |
| Theophilus Carey Callicot - Geography - 1854 - 882 pages
...town of Asia-Minor, pash. Anatolia. P. 2,000. BAYEUX, a city of France, dep. Calvados, on the Anre. P. 9,106. It has a venerable cathedral, in which is...the conquest of Engl. BAYLEN, a town of Spain, prov. Jaén. P. 4,976. The capitulation of Baylen, the commencement of the French disasters in the Peninsula,... | |
| Theophilus Carey Callicot - Gazetteers - 1855 - 880 pages
...town of Asia- Minor, posh. Anatolia. P. 2,000. BAYEUX, a city of France, dep. Calvados, on the Aure. P. 9,106. It has a venerable cathedral, in which is...preserved the celeb, tapestry of Bayeux, said to be tho work of Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, & representing his exploits in the conquest of... | |
| Alfred G. Havet - 1867 - 280 pages
...5 of Stonehenge *. In the cathedral church of Bayeux, in Normandy, is preserved a roll of tapestry, said to be the work of Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, representing the celebrated contest between her husband and Harold *. 14. In political importance*... | |
| 1875 - 648 pages
...in 1745. Bayeux, a city of France; department, Calvados. In its cathedral is preserved the tapestry, said to be the work of Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror. Salamanca, a city of Spain, capital of the province of the same name, on the right bank of the Tormes.... | |
| Oliver and Boyd messrs - Geography - 1881 - 606 pages
...M-yn', a town of France, dep. Calvados, with a One cathedral, in which is preserved the celebrated tapestry of Bayeux, said to be the work of Matilda, wife of William ihe Conqueror, and representing his exploits in the conquest of England. Pop. 7916. Вауошзе,... | |
| Geography - 1884 - 616 pages
...France, dep. Calvados, with a fine cathedral, in which is preserved the celebrated tapestry of Bayeuz, said to be the work of Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, and representing bis exploits in the conquest of England. Pop. 8006. Bayorme, ba-yonn' (good port or... | |
| Henrietta Gerwig - Allusions - 1925 - 748 pages
...his history from then till his death at Hastings in 1066. It is preserved at Bayeux, and is supposed to be the work of Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror. A replica is shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. In the tapestry, the Saxon? fi^ht... | |
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