Uzès - The ducs d'Uzès

Uzès is a picturesque town and commune in the Gard département, Languedoc, France, located about 15 miles north-northeast of Nîmes. Population: 8,007. Uzès - History. Originally Ucetia, Uzès was a small Gallo-Roman oppidum, or admnistrative settlement. The town lies at the source of the Eure, from where a Roman aqueduct was built in the first century B.C, to supply water to the local city of Nîmes, 50KM away. The most famous stretch of the aqueduct is the Pont du Gard, which carri ...

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Originally Ucetia, Uzès was a small Gallo-Roman oppidum, or admnistrative settlement. The town lies at the source of the Eure, from where a Roman aqueduct was built in the first century B.C, to supply water to the local city of Nîmes, 50KM away. The most famous stretch of the aqueduct is the Pont du Gard, which carried fresh water over splendid arches across the river Gardon. With the arrival of official Christianity in the 5th century, and until the Revolution, the city was the seat of a bishop, a competitor to the lo ...

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Uzès, Uzès - History, Uzès - The ducs d'Uzès, Uzès - The Huguenots of Uzès, Uzès - Sights, Uzès - Miscellaneous, Uzès - Births

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Originally Ucetia, Uzès was a small Gallo-Roman oppidum, or admnistrative settlement. The town lies at the source of the Eure, from where a Roman aqueduct was built in the first century BC, to supply water to the local city of Nîmes, 50KM away. The most famous stretch of the aqueduct is the Pont du Gard, which carried fresh water over splendid arches across the river Gardon. With the arrival of official Christianity in the 5th century, and until the Revolution, the city was the seat of a bishop, a competitor to the loc ...

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Uzès, Uzès - History, Uzès - The ducs d'Uzès, Uzès - The Huguenots of Uzès, Uzès - Sights, Uzès - Miscellaneous, Uzès - Births

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Uzès - Births. Uzès was the birthplace of: Firmin Abauzit (1679-1767), scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, Count de Brueys, (1753-1798), the French commander in the Battle of the Nile. ...

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Uzès, Uzès - History, Uzès - The ducs d'Uzès, Uzès - The Huguenots of Uzès, Uzès - Sights, Uzès - Miscellaneous, Uzès - Births

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