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ALENCON , a See also: town of See also: north-western See also: France, capital, of the department of See also: Orne, 36 m
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N. of Le Mans. on a branch See also: line of the Western railway
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Pop (1906) 14,378
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Alencon, a clean, regularly built town with broad handsome streets, is situated in a wide and fertile plain, on the See also: Sarthe at its confluence with the Briante
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The only remains of the See also: ancient See also: castle of Alencon are two towers of the 15th century, which serve as a prison, and a third of the 14th century known as the Tour Couronnee, to yvhich they are See also: united
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Notre-See also: Dame, the chief See also: church,
See also: dates from the 15th century
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It is remarkable for a porch ornamented in the richest See also: Gothic See also: style, and for its stained windows of the 16th century
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Alencon has a large circular corn-market and a See also: cloth-market
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The manufacture of the point d'Alengon lace has greatly diminished
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The See also: weaving and See also: bleaching of cloth, which is of less importance than formerly, the manufacture of vehicles, and tanning are carried on; there is a large See also: trade in the horses of the See also: district, and granite is worked in the neighbourhood
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Alencon is the seat of a See also: prefect and a See also: court of assizes
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It has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a See also: board of trade-arbitrators, a lycee, training-colleges and ' a chamber of arts and manufactures
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