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Flers

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a manufacturing town of north-western France, in the arrondissement of Domfront, and department of Orne, on the Vere, 41 m. S. of Caen on the railway to Laval. Pop. (1906) 11,188. A modern church in the Romanesque style and a restored château of the 15th century are its principal buildings. There is a tribunal of commerce, a board of trade-arbitrators, a communal college and a branch of the Bank of France. Flers is the centre of a cotton and linen-manufacturing region which includes the towns of Conde-sur-Noireau and La Ferte-Mace. Manufactures are very important, and include, besides cotton and linen fabrics, of which the annual value is about £1,500,000, drugs and chemicals; there are large brick and tile works, flour mills and dyeworks.

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