Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-29
THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Socirty

Gorizia. whose capture marked the i first signal gain of the Italians on the | Isonza front is many months. is the subject of today's war geography bull letin of the National Geographic So- ciety:
 with population of 30.OO0. mainly Italians, Gorizia (Gerynan Gorz). is the principal city of the TsOnzO valley. The capital of the Austrian prirciDaIity of Gorizia and Gradisca. it is charm ingly situated on the left bank of the TsonzO River. about eight miles east of the AustrO-Italian boundary line. some 35 miles northwest of Trieste 1O6 by rail northeast of Venice. and nearly 400 miles southwest of Vienna.
 "GOrizia las never had a particu- l larly strong appeal for American tour ists, as it's antiduities are few-a cathedral dating from the fourteenth h century and rebuilt in the eighteenth. and the ancient castle of the old Counts of Gorizia perched on Castle Hill where 2 military barracks was sit uated at the outbreak of the present v'ar-bUt it is popular with the Viennese as a WintOr resort, owink to it's saiubrious climate.
 The nanufa curing industries of the town are varied and important inClud- 1 ing silk cotton, leather, paper and
 much prized throughout the Levant, is made here, and there is also brisk
 trade in candied fruits.
 "GOrizia is mentioned in history as early as the eleventh century and re- ceived a charter three centuries later Its chief distinction was not to come
 until the 18th century when it be- came the asylum of Charles x, the Ia st of the elder line of Bourbons to occupy the throne of France. This sovereign, who adbicated too late to save the crown for his grandson. hopefully
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 torians as a typical Bourbon who never learned anything and never for got anything After his retirement from Paris, following the revolution of
 July 27-29, 1890. he took up his resi- dence at Gorizia where he died of cholera six years later.
 Reside the tomb of Charles x, in the Franciscan M0nastry of Cestae- navezzi, which overIoozs Gorizia from hill to the east, is buried the Bour- bon's heir, better known to history as Comte de ChambOrd than by the king ly title of Henry v. This claimant to the French throne, was called the 'enfant du miracle on account of his birth seven months after the assa ssin- 9tfon of his father, the Due de Berry. Up on the occasion of his christening with water brought from the River
 Jordan by Chateaubriand, he was presented with the celebrated castle of Chambord which had been bought from the widow Of Napoleon's marshal. Berthier, by enthusiastic Leeitimists. Thus the royal baby acquired possess sion of the famous residence of Fran els I, Henry II, and Louis XIV, in
 one of whose 440 chambers the first performance of Mo1iere's great comic farce Bourgeois Gentilhome' was staged. He died 8 years ago at Frohsdorf and his body was brought to Gorizia to be placed near that of his grandsire and of his uncle, the Due D'Angou1eme, Charles son.
 Seventeen miles north of Gorizia in an airline is To1rnino, also captured Dante is supposed to have written some of the cartos of the Divine Com edy' in this town on the Isonzo."