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Bayeux

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Bayeux , town (1990 pop. 15,106), Calvados dept., N France, in Normandy, near the English Channel. It is a farm and communications center, noted for its lace industry. A Roman town and episcopal see from the 4th cent., it was burned (1105) by Henry I of England. Sections of its Romanesque church withstood the fire and form a part of the remarkable Gothic cathedral built for the most part in the 13th cent. The town is particularly famous for its museum containing the Bayeux tapestry. In World War II, Bayeux was the first French city liberated by the Allies (June 8, 1944).

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Bayeux

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Bayeux, Lower Normandy/France Baiocasses, Augustodorum, Civitas Baiocassium The capital of the Gauls, it derives its name from that of the Celtic Baiocasses tribe. Taken by the Romans in the 1st century bc it was renamed in Latin Augustodorum ‘Fort of Augustus’ after the Emperor Augustus^† and then the ‘City of the Baiocasses’.

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	Analysis: Reviewing the rich legacy of the Bayeux tapestry Transcript from: Morning Edition; 12/26/2005
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