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Niort (nyôr), city (1990 pop. 58,660), capital of Deux-Sèvres dept., W France, in Poitou. An old agricultural marketplace, it now has plywood, chemical, metallurgy, clothing, tobacco, and printing industries. Niort was originally a Gallo-Roman town called Novioritum. During the 16th and 17th cent. it was a stronghold of the Huguenots Huguenots (hy  `gənŏts), French Protestants, followers of John Calvin ...... Click the link for more information. . Of the old fortress (12th–13th cent.), two huge towers remain; there are also several fine Renaissance buildings, including a town hall (16th cent.) and a church (15th–17th cent.). |
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e] siecle: de la coutume de Paris aux contrats de mariage de Louisbour"; Isabelle Sagot, "Etre veuve au temps des honorables hommes, a Niort, au XVI[I. Circa 1590, Francois Crespet, in his treatise on diabolical magic entitled Deux livres de la haine de Satan, identified the town of Niort (50 kilometers northeast of La Rochelle) as a place where malefactors had long been inflicting magical castration and sexual discord on the newly married. Some of the contactors will come from California-based Leach International North America, with design and manufacture of the actual PEPDC assemblies at Leach facilities in Sarralbe and Niort, France. |
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