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MARCHE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 690 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARCHE  , a

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town of Belgium in the province of Luxemburg, 33 M . S.W. of Liege and about 28 m . S.E. of Namur . Pop . (1904), 3540 . It
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dates from the 7th century, when it was the chief town of the pagus falmiensis, as it still is of the same
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district now called Famene . Formerly it was fortified, and a treaty was signed there in 1577 between Philip II. and the
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United Provinces . In 1792
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Lafayette was taken prisoner by the Austrians in a skirmish near it .

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