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Cathedral city of southern France
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beziers
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Béziers (; ) is a town in Languedoc in southern France . It is a sub-prefecture of the Hérault department . Béziers hosts the famous Feria de Béziers , centred on bullfighting, every August. A million visitors are attracted to the five-day event. Béziers ...
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n. (plural of bezier English)
Usage examples of beziers.
A philosopher who wished to renounce all the vanities of the world, and an Epicurean who would enjoy good cheer cheaply, could find no better retreat than Beziers.
I left Perpignan the day after my arrival, and slept at Narbonne, and the day after at Beziers.
Joscelyn, Lord of Beziers and heir to the great county of Berat, slammed the breastplate onto the table so hard that it started dust from the cracks in the timber.
Joscelyn, Lord of Beziers, believed his uncle was an old fool and, what was worse, a rich old fool.
Made of ash, it was sixteen feet long and painted in a spiral of yellow and red, the colours of his lord ship at Beziers.
He was even less sure that his uncle would pay a ransom, but he did not want to suggest that to his captors, nor tell them that his lordship of Beziers would be fortunate to scrape up more than a handful of ecus.
The distance from Narbonne to Beziers is only five leagues, and I had not intended to stop.
Everybody at Beziers is intelligent, all the women are pretty, and the cooks are all artists.
The city of Beziers in southern France, which had 14,000 inhabitants in 1304, numbered 4,000 a century later.
The rioters of Beziers in Languedoc were reported in a plot to murder all citizens having more than 100 livres, while forty of the plotters planned to kill their own wives and marry the richest and most beautiful widows of their victims.
He affirmed his guilt in errors of faith before the Bishop of Beziers, who, according to Church practice with confessed heretics, promptly handed him back to the civil arm for execution.
He was lying, the officer told us, at Castelnaudary, and his duchess was hastening to him from Beziers.
The best known were those at Wietze (Hannover, Germany), Pechelbron (Alsace), Beziers (southern France), Agrigentum (Sicily), Modena (Po valley, Italy), and Tegernsee (southern Bavaria), and at various locations in Galicia and Romania.
He laughed and chatted with the others as he had not done since they had left Beziers.