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NANTERRE , a See also: town of See also: northern See also: France, with a See also: port on the See also: Seine, in the department of Seine, at the See also: foot of See also: Mount Valerien, 8 m
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N.W. of See also: Paris on the railway to St Germain
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Pop
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(1906), town, 11,874; commune, 17,434
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The See also: principal manufactures are chemicals, tallow and aluminium; See also: stone quarried in the vicinity; the town is noted also for its cakes
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The combined prison and mendicity depot for the department is a large institution, about 2 M. from the town
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Nanterre (the
See also: ancient Nemptodurum or Nemetodurum) owes its origin to the shrine of Ste Genevieve (42o-512), the See also: patron-See also: saint of Paris, whose name is still associated with various places in the town and See also: district
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The shrine is the See also: object of a pilgrimage in See also: September
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