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Alencon
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or a town of north-western France, capital of the department of Orne, 36 m. N. of Le Mans on a branch line of the Western railway. Pop (1906) 14,378. Alengon, a clean, regularly built town with broad handsome streets, is situated in a wide and fertile plain, on the Sarthe at its confluence with the Briante. The only remains of the ancient castle of Alengon are two towers of the 15th century, which serve as a prison, and a third of the 14th century known as the Tour Couronnee, to which they are united. Notre-Dame, the chief church, dates from the 1 5th century. It is remarkable for a porch ornamented in the richest Gothic style, and for its stained windows of the 16th century. Alengon has a large circular corn-market and a clothmarket. The manufacture of the point d'Alengon lace has greatly diminished. The weaving and bleaching of cloth, which is of less importance than formerly, the manufacture of vehicles, and tanning are carried on; there is a large trade in the horses of the district, and granite is worked in the neighbourhood. Alengon is the seat of a prefect and a court of assizes. It has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a board of trade-arbitrators, a lycee, training-colleges and a chamber of arts and manufactures.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Alencon'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/alencon.html. 1910.
