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Ardres

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a town of northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, 101 m. by rail S.S.E. of Calais, with which it is also connected by a canal. Pop. (1906) 1269. The "Field of the Cloth of Gold," where Henry VIII. of England and Francis I. of France met in 1520, was at Balinghem in the immediate neighbourhood. The town is an important market for cattle.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Ardres'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/ardres.html. 1910.
 
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