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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 164 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NANTERRE  , a

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

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