ARMENTIERES  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, in the See also:

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

department of See also:

• NORD

Nord, on the Lys, 13 M . W.N.W. of See also:

• LILLE

Lille on the Northern railway from that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city to See also:

• DUNKIRK
• DUNKIRK (Fr. Dunkerque)

Dunkirk . Pop . (1906) 25,408 . The See also:

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

chief See also:

• BUILDING

building is the hotel de ville with a 17th-See also:

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

century See also:

• BELFRY (Mid. Eng. berfrey, through Med. Lat. berefredus, from Teut. bergfrid or bercvrit, which, according to the New Eng. Dict., is a combination of bergen, to protect, and frida, safety or peace; the word thus meaning a shelter; the change from r to 1,—

belfry . There are communal colleges for girls and boys, a See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board of See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade-arbitrators, a chamber of See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce and a See also:

• NATIONAL

national technical school . The town is an important centre for the 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 See also:

• WEAVING

weaving of See also:

• FLAX

flax and See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton; See also:

• BLEACHING

bleaching, See also:

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

dyeing and the manufacture of machinery are among the other See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries . Its See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

industrial prosperity See also:

• DATES

dates from the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages, when, however, woollen, not cotton, goods were the See also:

• STAPLE

staple product .