temple

By John Donne.

In France, the Temple was a monastery in Paris, built during the 13th century. During the French Revolution, one of the towers of the Temple was used as a prison for Louis XVI and the royal family, from August 10, 1792 until their executions.

The name "Temple" was also applied to churches in Paris and elsewhere in France, after the Convention abolished Catholicism (October 14, 1793).

The following is a partial list of some of the more notable Temples in Paris:

• Temple de l'Agriculture - Church of Saint-Eustache
• Temple de la Bienfaisance - Church of Saint-Jacques du Haut-Pas
• Temple de la Paix - Chapelle de Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin. After the convents were suppressed, in 1790, this had became a center for the Théophilantropes¹.
• Temple de la Piété Filiale - Church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont
• Temple de la Raison - Notre-Dame-de-Paris
• Temple de la Reconnaissance - Church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois
• Temple de la Victoire - Saint-Sulpice. Site of the meetings of the Théophilantropes in 1793, and of a banquet in honour of Napoleon Bonaparte, in 1799.
• Temple de l'Hymen - Church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs
• Temple de l'Immortalité - The Panthéon
• Temple de l'Industrie - The name applied to a five-day public exhibition of French industrial products, held in the Champ de Mars in September 1789
• Temple de Mars - Chapelle des Invalides
• Temple de Terpsichore - The name applied to the theater in the Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin in the hôtel of Mademoiselle Guimard, a celebrated danseuse of the Paris Opera. Built by Ledoux at the end of the reign of Louis XV, it was purchased in 1796 by the banker Peregaux.
• Temple du Génie - Church of Saint-Roch (1793)
• Temple du Travail - Church of Saint-Médard

Note(s):

¹ See Theophilanthropy.

Addenda:

In modern French, temple can also mean a Protestant church. I am uncertain whether this usage has any relationship to the above. (Thanks to Albert Herring for reminding me of this.)

I am also reminded (by thbz - thanks!) that, naturally, temple can also mean other non-Catholic (e.g. Buddhist, Greek-Orthodox, Hindu) places of worship.

In Civilization and Civilization II, the temple is a city improvement that makes discontented citizens content. Since a city with discontented citizens goes into rebellion and becomes totally non-productive, building temples quickly becomes a neccesity.

A temple requires only the simple civilization advance of ceremonial burial and a relativly small amount of resource shields to build. However, often it must be built so early in the game that cities don't have enough shields to build them quickly.

While there are different strategies for playing Civ, with different emphasis on what structures to build in each, at higher levels of the game, building temples quickly is a neccesity, independent of what strategy you choose to pursue afterwords.

Tem"ple (?), n. [Cf. Templet.] (Weaving)

A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

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Tem"ple, n. [OF. temple, F. tempe, from L. tempora, tempus; perhaps originally, the right place, the fatal spot, supposed to be the same word as tempus, temporis, the fitting or appointed time. See Temporal of time, and cf. Tempo, Tense, n.]

1. (Anat.)

The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.

2.

One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place.

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Tem"ple, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. &?; a piece of land marked off, land dedicated to a god: cf. F. témple, from the Latin. Cf. Contemplate.]

1.

A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India. "The temple of mighty Mars." Chaucer.

2. (Jewish Antiq.)

The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.

Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
John x. 23.

3.

Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.

Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer?
Buckminster.

4.

Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. "The temple of his body." John ii. 21.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Cor. iii. 16.

The groves were God's first temples.
Bryant.

Inner Temple, ∧ Middle Temple, two buildings, or ranges of buildings, occupied by two inns of court in London, on the site of a monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the Temple.

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Tem"ple (?), v. t.

To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. [R.] Feltham.

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Tem"ple, n.

1. (Mormon Ch.)

A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.

2.

A local organization of Odd Fellows.

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