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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 421 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LENS  , a

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town of
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Northern
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France, in the
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department of Pasde-
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Calais, 13 m . N.N.E. of
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Arras by
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rail on the
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Defile and on the Lens
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canal . Pop . (1906) 27,692 . Lens hasimportant
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iron and
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steel foundries, and
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engineering
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works and manufactories of steel cables, and occupies a central position in the coalfields of the department . Two and a
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half
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miles W.S . W.. lies Lievin (pop . 22,070); likewise 'a centre of the coalfield' . In 1648 the neighbourhood of Lens was the
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scene of a celebrated victory gained by
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Louis II. of
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Bourbon,
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prince of
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Conde, over the Spaniards .

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