Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-28
CURIOUS EFFECT
Of WAR IS SHOWN
IN FRENCH CITY

WASHINGTON, d. c., August 2S.--
"One of the many Clclous trade re-
feXes of the world war is revealed
! i'll report recently received from the
United States consul at Grenoble, in
which it is stated that the great glove
making industry of this famous ola
capital of the Dauphine district is
seriously jeopardized by the inability
| t. secure -four at normal prices. The
-four is used extensively in the prep
aratiCn of the skins from which no
were made annually before the war in
less than 10000 dozen pairs of gloves
this district, giving employment to
"a 600 persons, four-fifths of whom
we're women, says war geography
bulletin of the National Geographic
Society issued today at Grenoble,
France, the chief city of the Depart
ment of Isere in southeastern France.
- miles by rail from Lyons.
With a population of more than
/ - 600 in 1914, Grenoble is one of the
most beautifully situated cities in in
France It is built on a 700-foot en-
bGnkment on both sides Of the river
Isere just above its confluence with me
Drac, and it's is almost completely
girdled with mountains, some of which
rise to an elevation of 10000 feet. To
the north over the heights Of the
Grande Chartreuse, which lends its
name to the monastery familiarly
known as the birthplace Of famous
.I:queur Before the war, thousands of
tourists from England and America,
fiocked here every season.
Most of the newer portion of the
city, with its broad, straight thorough
fares, lies on the left bank of the Isere
while the small, original town. with
narrow, tortuous streets, nestles at
the foot of the southern slope of Mt.
Rachais. on the right bank Back OF
the old town is a succession Of fortif1-
cations extending up the heights, and
these are only part of the defenses
disposed over the surrounding hills,
making Grenoble one of the most
strongly fortified towns in all France.
"Grenoble has been a stronghold
since the ancient days of Roman
occupation Both DiocIetian ami
Maximian contributed to its defenses
i'll the third century but the town,
which occupies the site of village
OF the Alloborges, derives its name
from Roman emperor of the succeed
ing century-Gratian, he who pro-
hibted heather worship in Rome, and
during whose reign Christianity be
came dominant throughout the empire.
Gratianopolis it was then called, but
later corrupted and shortened to
Grenobe
After the disintegration of the Ro
man empire Grenoble was in turn a
possession of the Franks and Burgun-
dams and then a part of the kingdom
of Province In the middle ages the
city and its province Of Dauphine
were under the domination of its
bishops for many years. They were
succeeded by the Counts of Albon,
who assumed the title of Dauphin du
Viennois. In the middle of the four
teenth century the counts ceded the
whole district to the French crown
with the proyiso that it should always
be the dependency of the kings older
SON Hence the heir apparent to the
throne became known as the Dauphin.
For $50 years after it passed to the
crown the city was the seat Of the
inqusition and persecution of the Wall
densians, the religious sect founded
in 1170 by Peter Waldo in the neigh
boring city of Lyons.
when Napoleon began his march
through France after his return from
Elba for the historic Hundred Days,
Grenoble was the first city to Velcome
him with open gates, This was on
March Z, 1916 Four months later it
was forced to surrender to an Austrian
army.
Grenobles most treasured shrine is
monument in the Church of st,
Ande which marks the resting place Of
the beau ideal of the age of chivalry,
Chevalier Bayard, the knight sans
peur ct sans reproche: He was one
Of the ablest military leaders of the
middle ages, and all the researches
Of modern historians have only served
to confirm the tributes which his con-
temporaries bestowed with such lavish
hands upon him when they affection
ately and admiringly addressed as
le bon chevalier