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BOLBEC

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 158 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOLBEC  , a

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town of
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northern France, in the department of Seine-Inferieure, on the Bolbec, 19 m . E.N.E. of Havre by
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rail . Pop . (1906) 10,959 . Bolbec is important for its cotton spinning and
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weaving, and carries on the dyeing and printing of the fabric, and the manufacture of
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sugar . There are a chamber of commerce and a board of trade-arbitration . The town was enthusiastic in the cause of the Reformed Religion in the 16th century, and still contains many Protestants . It was burned almost to the ground in 1765 .

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