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Encyclopedia Britannica



ALENCON

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 541 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALENCON , 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. Alencon, 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 Alencon 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 yvhich they are united. Notre-Dame, the
chief
 
church
 ,
dates
  from the 15th century. It is remarkable for a porch ornamented in the richest
Gothic
  style, and for its stained windows of the 16th century. Alencon has a large circular corn-market and a
cloth
 -market. 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. Alencon 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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