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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 177 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VOIRON  , a

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town of
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France in the
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department of the
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Isere . Pop . (1901) 12,625 . It stands at a height of 950 ft., on the Morge (a tributary of the Isere) . It is a manufacturing town, and contains numerous factories which produce a sort of
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cloth named after the town, and also
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silk-
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weaving factories (2000 looms, with an
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annual output of eight to nine million yards) . There are also
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paper-making factories in the town . The
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fine
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church of St
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Bruno was built 1864-73 at the expense of the monks of the Grande
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Chartreuse . Voiron is the starting-point of the
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steam tramways to St
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Laurent du
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Pont, 12 M . (for the Grande Chartreuse), and to Charavines, 10 m . (for the
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Lac de Paladru) . Voiron
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long formed
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part of
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Savoy, but in 1355 was exchanged (with the
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rest of the region between the
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Rhone and the Isere, watered by the Guiers Mort) by the
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count with France for Faucigny and
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Gex .

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