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CHAMBLY CHAMBORD a theological and normal seminary, and a school for the deaf and dumb. There are a museum of art and science, a public library with about 20,000 volumes and many important manu- scripts, and a number of learned associations and charitable institutions. The Chamb6ry silk gauzes have long been renowned, and laces, silk, and woollen hosiery, hats, watches, and many other articles are manufactured here. An active trade is carried on in cereals, cattle, wine, leath- er, copper, raw silk, and other commodities. Chambe>y was ruled by counts in the llth and 12th centuries, and in the 13th it became the capital of Savoy. It was occupied by the French in 1535, from which time it was alter- nately in their possession and in that of the native rulers till 1713, when Louis XIV. finally restored it to the dukes of Savoy by the treaty of Utrecht. After the French revolution it was once more under French domination as the capital of the department of Mont Blanc till 1815, when it was restored to Sardinia. In 1 860 it came finally into possession of France with the rest of Savoy. CHAMBLY, a S. W. county of the province of Quebec, Canada, bordering on the right bank of the river St. Lawrence, opposite the island of Montreal ; area, 189^ sq. m. ; pop. in 1871, 10,498, of whom 9,755 were French. It is watered by the Richelieu and Montreal rivers, one being a continuation of the other, and contains an expansion of the Richelieu called the basin of Chambly, 2 m. in diameter, of nearly circular form, and interspersed with islands. On the W. side of the basin stands Fort Chambly, built by the French in 1711. In the southern part of the county there is a mountainous elevation. Chambly, sometimes erroneously supposed to imply wheat field, is the name of the original grantee of the seign- iory. The Champlain and Montreal and the Grand Trunk railways and the Chambly canal traverse the county. Chief town, Chambly, on the Richelieu, 12 m. E. S. E. of Montreal. CHAMBORD, a village of France, in the de- partment of Loir-et-Cher, 9 m. E. of Blois; pop. in 1866, 332. It is noted for its chateau, surrounded by a beautiful park, 21 m. in cir- cumference. The counts of Blois had here a hunting lodge and pleasure house, built in 1090. It was added to the possessions of the crown by Louis XII., and torn down by Fran- cis I. to make way for the' present magnificent structure, which was commenced after designs Castle of Chambord. by Primaticcio, and continued in subsequent reigns ; but the original plans were never car- ried out. Diana of Poitiers resided here, and the letters H. and D. entwined with a crescent still fill the compartments of the vaulted ceil- ings. Charles IX., Louis XIII., and Louis XIV. occasionally held their court here ; and Moliere gave here the first representation of his Bourgeois gentilhomme, Chambord after- ward became the residence for some years of Stanislas Leszczynski, ex-king of Poland. In 1745 Louis XV. bestowed it upon Marshal Saxe, who restored much of its former bril- liancy. After his death, and that of his nephew the count de Frise, the chateau reverted to the crown; it was bestowed upon the Polignac family by Louis XVI. in 1777, plundered by the mob in 1792, and sold as national property. In 1809 Napoleon gave it to Berthier, whose widow sold it in 1821 for nearly 1,800,000 francs to the legitimists, who presented it to the infant duke of Bordeaux, hence called count de Chambord. CHAMBORD. I. Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Diendonne, count de, duke of Bordeaux, the rep- resentative of the elder branch of the French Bourbon dynasty, called by his partisans Henry V. of France, born in Paris, Sept. 29, 1820, seven months after the assassination of his father, Prince Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, duke de Berry. (See BERRY, DUCHESS OF.) The ti- tle of duke of Bordeaux was given him in com-