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ARMENTIERES

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 575 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARMENTIERES  , a

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town of
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northern France, in the department of
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Nord, on the Lys, 13 M . W.N.W. of
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Lille on the Northern railway from that city to Dunkirk . Pop . (1906) 25,408 . The chief
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building is the hotel de ville with a 17th-century belfry . There are communal colleges for girls and boys, a board of trade-arbitrators, a chamber of commerce and a
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national technical school . The town is an important centre for the spinning and
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weaving of
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flax and cotton;
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bleaching, dyeing and the manufacture of machinery are among the other
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industries . Its
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industrial prosperity
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dates from the
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middle ages, when, however, woollen, not cotton, goods were the
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staple product .

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