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AVESNES , a See also:town of See also:northern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Nord, on the Helpe, 28 m. S.E. of See also:Valenciennes by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 5076. The town is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect, and has a tribunal of first instance, a chamber of See also:commerce and a communal See also:college. Its See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Nicholas (16th See also:century) has a See also:tower 200 ft. high, with a See also:fine See also:chime of bells. The See also:chief See also:industry of the town is See also:wool-See also:spinning, and there is See also:trade in See also:wood. Avesnes was founded in the 11th century, and formed a countship which in the 15th century passed to the See also:house of See also:Burgundy and afterwards to that of See also:Habsburg. In 1477 it was destroyed by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XI. By the treaty of the See also:Pyrenees (1659) it came into the See also:possession of the See also:French, and was fortified by See also:Vauban. It was captured by the Prussians in 1815.
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