CHARLEVILLE
, a See also:town of See also:north-eastern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Ardennes, 151 m
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N.E. of See also:Paris on the Eastern railway
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Pop
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(1go6) 19,693
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Charleville is situated within a See also:bend of the See also:Meuse on its See also:left See also:bank, opposite See also:Mezieres, with which it is See also:united by a suspension See also:bridge
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The town was founded in 16o6 by See also:Charles III
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(See also:Gonzaga), See also:duke of See also:Nevers, afterwards duke of See also:Mantua, and is laid out on a See also:uniform See also:plan
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' Its central and most interesting portion is the See also:Place Ducale, a large square
surrounded by old houses with high-pitched See also:roofs, the porches being arranged so as to See also:form a continuous See also:arcade; in the centre there is a See also:fountain surmounted by a statue of the duke Charles
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A handsome 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)
church in the Romanesque See also:style and the other public buildings date from the 19th See also:century
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An old See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill, See also:standing on the bank of the See also:river, See also:dates from the See also:early years of the town's existence
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On the right bank of the Meuse is Mont Olympe, with the ruins of a fortress dismantled under 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
Louis XIV
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Charleville, which shares with Mezieres the administrative institutions of the department of Ardennes, has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a chamber of commerce, a See also:board of See also:trade-arbitrators and lycees and training colleges for both sexes
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Its See also:chief See also:industries are See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal-See also:founding and the manufacture of nails, anvils, tools and other See also:iron goods, and See also:brush-making; See also:leather-working and See also:sugar-refining, and the making of bricks and See also:clay pipes are also carried on
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