Montpelier
a city, county-seat of Washington co., and capital of the State on the Wells River, the Central Vermont, of Vermont, on the Winooski river, and and the Montpelier and Wells River railon the Wells River, the Central Vermont, and the Montpelier and Wells River railroads; 40 miles S. E. of Burlington. It has waterworks, electric light and street railway plants, National banks, art galpapers. It has industries in granite, tant public buildings, and daily newspapers. It has industries in granite, hardware, saddlery, cotton goods, and made the State capital in 1805, and received its charter as a city in 1894. Pop. chief town of the department of Hérault, in France; on the Lez; 80 miles W.N. W. of Marseilles. It is one of the handsomest towns of the S. of France. Among its noteworthy features are the Peyrou, a splendid promenade, on which is the so-called Château d'Eau, at the adel; the cathedral; the Palais de Justice since the 12th century has been famous for its school of medicine, founded by Arab physicians driven out of Spain.
Pop. about 80,000. a university of France. In the 12th cen- MONTPELLIER, UNIVERSITY OF, tury a medical college was established which had a higher reputation than any in modern times medicine has continued to be its chief faculty. A university of law was added in 1160 and the study of Roman law, then just beginning in Europe, was first conducted by an Italian, Placentinus. In the 13th century a university of theology was founded at Montpellier by the Carthusian order of friars. The golden age of the university was in this century, although its medical faculty remained famous until modern times.
The university was reorganized by Napoleon I. The library contains 100,000 volumes. In 1913 its enrollment numbered 1,958 students. 1824.