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CHARLEVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLEVILLE  , a

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town of north-eastern France, in the department of
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Ardennes, 151 m . N.E. of Paris on the Eastern railway . Pop . (1go6) 19,693 . Charleville is situated within a
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bend of the Meuse on its
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left
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bank, opposite Mezieres, with which it is
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united by a suspension
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bridge . The town was founded in 16o6 by Charles III . (Gonzaga), duke of
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Nevers, afterwards duke of Mantua, and is laid out on a
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uniform plan . ' Its central and most interesting portion is the Place Ducale, a large square surrounded by old houses with high-pitched
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roofs, the porches being arranged so as to form a continuous
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arcade; in the centre there is a fountain surmounted by a statue of the duke Charles . A handsome church in the Romanesque style and the other public buildings date from the 19th century . An old mill,
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standing on the bank of the
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river,
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dates from the early years of the town's existence . On the right bank of the Meuse is Mont Olympe, with the ruins of a fortress dismantled under Louis XIV . Charleville, which shares with Mezieres the administrative institutions of the department of Ardennes, has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a chamber of commerce, a board of trade-arbitrators and lycees and training colleges for both sexes .

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chief
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industries are metal-founding and the manufacture of nails, anvils, tools and other iron goods, and brush-making; leather-working and
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sugar-refining, and the making of bricks and clay pipes are also carried on .

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