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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 541 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:north-western See also:France, See also:capital, of the See also:department of See also:Orne, 36 m. N. of Le Mans. on a See also:branch See also:line of the Western railway. Pop (1906) 14,378. Alencon, a clean, regularly built town with broad handsome streets, is situated in a wide and fertile See also:plain, on the See also:Sarthe at its confluence with the Briante. The only remains of the See also:ancient See also:castle of Alencon are two towers of the 15th See also:century, which serve as a See also:prison, and a third of the 14th century known as the Tour Couronnee, to yvhich they are See also:united. Notre-See also:Dame, the See also:chief See also:church, See also:dates from the 15th century. It is remarkable for a See also:porch ornamented in the richest See also:Gothic See also:style, and for its stained windows of the 16th century. Alencon has a large circular See also:corn-See also:market and a See also:cloth-market. The manufacture of the point d'Alengon See also:lace has greatly diminished. The See also:weaving and See also:bleaching of cloth, which is of less importance than formerly, the manufacture of vehicles, and tanning are carried on; there is a large See also:trade in the horses of the See also:district, and See also:granite is worked in the neighbourhood. Alencon is the seat of a See also:prefect and a See also:court of assizes. It has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a See also:board of trade-arbitrators, a lycee, training-colleges and ' a chamber of arts and manufactures.

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