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ARMENTIERES

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 575 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARMENTIERES , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Nord, on the Lys, 13 M. W.N.W. of See also:Lille on the Northern railway from that See also:city to See also:Dunkirk. Pop. (1906) 25,408. The See also:chief See also:building is the hotel de ville with a 17th-See also:century See also:belfry. There are communal colleges for girls and boys, a See also:board of See also:trade-arbitrators, a chamber of See also:commerce and a See also:national technical school. The town is an important centre for the See also:spinning and See also:weaving of See also:flax and See also:cotton; See also:bleaching, See also:dyeing and the manufacture of machinery are among the other See also:industries. Its See also:industrial prosperity See also:dates from the See also:middle ages, when, however, woollen, not cotton, goods were the See also:staple product.

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