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CHAUX DE FONDS, LA

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 20 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAUX DE FONDS, LA , a large See also:

industrial See also:town in the Swiss See also:canton of See also:Neuchatel. It is about 19 M. by See also:rail N.W. of Neuchatel, and stands at a height of about 3255 ft. in a valley (5 m. See also:long) of the same name in the See also:Jura. Pop. (woo) 35,968 (only 13,659 in 1850); (1905) 38,700, mainly See also:French-speaking and Protestants; of the 6114 " Catholics " the See also:majority are " Old Catholics." It is a centre of the See also:watch-making See also:industry, especially of See also:gold watch cases; about 70% of those manufactured in See also:Switzerland are turned out here. In 1900 it exported watches to the value of nearly £3,000,000 See also:sterling. There is a school of industrial See also:art (See also:engraving and enamelling watch cases) and a school of watch-making (including instruction in the manufacture of chronometers and other scientific See also:instruments of precision). It boasts of being le plus See also:gros See also:village de l'See also:Europe, and certainly has preserved some of the features of a big village. See also:Leopold See also:Robert (1794-1835), the painter, was See also:born here. (W. A. B. C.).

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