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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 103 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TOURCOING , a manufacturing See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

NORTHERN

northern See also:

France in the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

NORD

Nord, less than a mile from the Belgian frontier, and 8 m. N.N.E. of See also:

LILLE

Lille on the railway to See also:

TOURMALINE

TOURMALINE 103 See also:

GHENT (Flem. Gent, Fr. Gand)

Ghent. Pop. (1906), 62,694 (See also:

commune, 81,671), of whom about one-third are natives of See also:

Belgium. Tourcoing is practically one with See also:

ROUBAIX

Roubaix to the See also:

south, being See also:

UNITED

united thereto by a See also:

TRAMWAY

tramway and a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the See also:

Canal de Roubaix. The public institutions comprise a tribunal of See also:

commerce, a See also:

BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board of See also:

trade arbitrators, a chamber of commerce, an See also:

EXCHANGE

exchange and a conditioning See also:

house for textiles. Together with Roubaix, Tourcoing ranks as one of the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief textile centres of France. Its chief See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry is the combing, See also:

SPINNING (from O. Eng. spinnen, to spin, cf. Ger. spinnen, &c., the Teut. root is seen, to draw out, cf. span, spider)

spinning and twisting of See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool carried on in some eighty factories employing between 1o,000 and 12,000 workpeople. The spinning and twisting of See also:

cotton is also important. The See also:

WEAVING

weaving establishments produce woollen and mixed woollen and cotton fabrics together with See also:

SILK

silk and satin drapery, swanskins, jerseys and other See also:

FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy goods. The making of See also:

VELVET

velvet See also:

PILE

pile carpets and upholstering materials is a speciality of the town. To these See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries must be added those of See also:

DYEING (0. Eng. dedgian, dealt ; Mid. Eng. deyen)

dyeing, the manufacture of See also:

HOSIERY

hosiery, of the machinery and other apparatus used in the textile factories and of See also:

SOAP

Famed since the 12th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century for its woollen manufactures, Tourcoing was fortified by the Flemings in 1477, when See also:

Louis XI. of France disputed the See also:

INHERITANCE

inheritance of See also:

Charles the Bold with See also:

Mary of See also:

BURGUNDY

Burgundy, but in the same See also:

YEAR

year was taken and pillaged by the See also:

French. In 1794 the Republican See also:

army, under Generals See also:

Moreau and See also:

SOUHAM, JOSEPII, COUNT (1760-1837)

Souham, gained a decisive victory over the Austrians, the event being commemorated by a See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument in the public See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden. The inhabitants, 18,000 in 1789, were reduced by the French Revolution to 1o,000.

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