TOURCOING  , a manufacturing See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France in the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• NORD

Nord, less than a mile from the Belgian frontier, and 8 m . N.N.E. of See also:

• LILLE

Lille on the railway to See also:

• TOURMALINE

TOURMALINE 103 See also:

• GHENT (Flem. Gent, Fr. Gand)

Ghent . Pop . (1906), 62,694 (See also:

• COMMUNE (Med. Lat. communia, Lat. communis, common)
• COMMUNE, MEDIEVAL

commune, 81,671), of whom about one-third are natives of See also:

• BELGIUM
• BELGIUM (Fr. Belgique; Flem. Belgic)

Belgium . Tourcoing is practically one with See also:

• ROUBAIX

Roubaix to the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south, being See also:

• UNITED

united thereto by a See also:

• TRAMWAY

tramway and a See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

Canal de Roubaix . The public institutions comprise a tribunal of See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce, a See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board of See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade arbitrators, a chamber of commerce, an See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange and a conditioning See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house for textiles . Together with Roubaix, Tourcoing ranks as one of the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief textile centres of France . Its chief See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry is the combing, See also:

• SPINNING (from O. Eng. spinnen, to spin, cf. Ger. spinnen, &c., the Teut. root is seen, to draw out, cf. span, spider)

spinning and twisting of See also:

• WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool carried on in some eighty factories employing between 1o,000 and 12,000 workpeople . The spinning and twisting of See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton is also important . The See also:

• WEAVING

weaving establishments produce woollen and mixed woollen and cotton fabrics together with See also:

• SILK

silk and satin drapery, swanskins, jerseys and other See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy goods . The making of See also:

• VELVET

velvet See also:

• PILE

pile carpets and upholstering materials is a speciality of the town . To these See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries must be added those of See also:

• DYEING (0. Eng. dedgian, dealt ; Mid. Eng. deyen)

dyeing, the manufacture of See also:

• HOSIERY

hosiery, of the machinery and other apparatus used in the textile factories and of See also:

• SOAP

soap .

Famed since the 12th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century for its woollen manufactures, Tourcoing was fortified by the Flemings in 1477, when 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 XI. of France disputed the See also:

• INHERITANCE

inheritance of See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles the Bold with See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary of See also:

• BURGUNDY

Burgundy, but in the same See also:

• YEAR

year was taken and pillaged by the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French . In 1794 the Republican See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, under Generals See also:

• MOREAU, GUSTAVE (1826-1898)
• MOREAU, HEGESIPPE (18ro-1838)
• MOREAU, JEAN VICTOR MARIE (1763-1813)

Moreau and See also:

• SOUHAM, JOSEPII, COUNT (1760-1837)

Souham, gained a decisive victory over the Austrians, the event being commemorated by a See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument in the public See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden . The inhabitants, 18,000 in 1789, were reduced by the French Revolution to 1o,000 .