AVESNES
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V03,
Page 59
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
AVESNES
, a town of northern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Nord, on the Helpe, 28 m
.
S.E. of Valenciennes by rail
.
Pop
.
(1906) 5076
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The town is the seat of a sub- prefect, and has a tribunal of first instance, a chamber of commerce and a communal college
.
Its See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
of St Nicholas (16th century) has a tower 200 ft. high, with a fine chime of bells
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The chief industry of the town is wool- spinning, and there is trade in wood
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Avesnes was founded in the 11th century, and formed a countship which in the 15th century passed to the house of Burgundy and afterwards to that of Habsburg
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In 1477 it was destroyed by See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
XI
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By the treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) it came into the possession of the French, and was fortified by Vauban
.
It was captured by the Prussians in 1815
.
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