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HAZEBROUCK

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 117 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAZEBROUCK , 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 canalized Bourre, 29 M. W.N.W. of See also:Lille, on the Northern railway, between that town and St Omer. Pop. (1906), town, 8798; See also:commune, 12,819. With the exception of the See also:church of St See also:Eloi, a See also:building of the 16th See also:century with a See also:spire of See also:fine open See also:work 26o ft. high, and the See also:hospice, occupying a See also:convent built in the 16th and 17th centuries, there is little of architectural See also:interest in the town. Hazebrouck is the seat of a sub See also:prefect, and has a tribunal of first instance and a See also:board of See also:trade See also:arbitration. It is the See also:market for a fertile agricultural See also:district, and has trade in live-stock, See also:grain and hops. See also:Cloth-See also:weaving is the See also:chief See also:industry. Hazebrouck is an important junction, and railway employes See also:form a large See also:part of its See also:population.

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