Rheims

Rheims is an important French city in the department of Marne, on the Vesle, 100 miles North East of Paris. As the former ecclesiastical metropolis of France it has historical associations of peculiar interest. The French monarchs were crowned in the cathedral (a Gothic structure of unique beauty) from 1179 to 1825. It has a beautiful 12th-century Romanesque church, an archiepiscopal palace, a Roman triumphal arch, a Lycée, statues, &c. It is situated in a rich wine district, it is one of the chief champagne entrepôts, and is also one of the main centres of French textiles, especially woollen goods. It is strongly fortified.

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Rheingau, Rhenish Prussia, Rheochord, Rheometry, Rhesus, Rhetoric, Rhine