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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 19 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAUNY , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France in the See also:department of See also:Aisne, 19 M. S. by W. of St Quentin by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 10,127. The town is situated on the See also:Oise (which here becomes navigable) and at the junction of the See also:canal of St Quentin with the lateral canal of the Oise, and carries on an active See also:trade. It contains See also:mirror-polishing See also:works, subsidiary to the mirror-works of St Gobain, chemical works, See also:sugar manufactories, See also:metal foundries and breweries. Chauny was the See also:scene of much fighting in the See also:Hundred Years' See also:War.

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