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UZES - LoveToKnow Article on UZES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Uz wrote a number of graceful lyrics in Gleim's style, and some patriotic odes; he is the typical representative of the rococo period in German poetry. |
 | | Uzes, the seat of an episcopal see from the 5th century to 1790, has a cathedral almost destroyed by the Protestants during the religious wars and rebuilt in the i7th and i8th centuries, but still flanked by a round tower of five storeys lighted by arched openings and dating from the i2th century. |
 | | Uzes has a communal college for boys, and carries on the manufacture of silk, bricks and fireproof earthenware, and liquorice, and trade in the truffles for which the district is noted. |
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