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BOLBEC

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 158 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOLBEC , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Seine-Inferieure, on the Bolbec, 19 m. E.N.E. of See also:Havre by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 10,959. Bolbec is important for its See also:cotton See also:spinning and See also:weaving, and carries on the See also:dyeing and See also:printing of the fabric, and the manufacture of See also:sugar. There are a chamber of See also:commerce and a See also:board of See also:trade-See also:arbitration. The town was enthusiastic in the cause of the Reformed See also:Religion in the 16th See also:century, and still contains many Protestants. It was burned almost to the ground in 1765.

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