Montpellier definition

môɴ-pĕl-yā
A city of southern France near the Mediterranean Sea west-northwest of Marseille. Founded in the tenth century, it was purchased by Philip VI of France in 1349. The city was later a Huguenot center and was besieged and captured by Louis XIII in 1622.
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(place) City in S France, near the Gulf of Lions.
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Montpellier Sentence Examples

  • He died at Montpellier on the 16th of February 1710.

  • Up to the year 1650, or thereabouts, the Canon was still used as a text-book in the universities of Louvain and Montpellier.

  • There are eleven maisons centrales, nine for men (Loos, Clairvaux, Beaulieu, Poissy, Melun, Fontevrault, Thouars, Riom and Nimes); two for women (Rennes and, Montpellier).

  • He held several minor philosophical lectureships, and from 1864 was professor of philosophy at the lycees of Douai, Montpellier and Bordeaux successively.

  • The father having died of cancer at Montpellier in 1785, Napoleon felt added responsibilites, which he zealously discharged.

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