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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHATELLERAULT

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 1 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHA-CHR
CHATELLERAULT , a town of western France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of
Vienne
 , 19 M. N.N.E. of Poitiers on the Orleans railway between that town and Tours. Pop. (1906) 15,214. Chatellerault is situated on the right and eastern bank of the
Vienne
 ; it is connected with the suburb of Chateauneuf on the opposite side of the river by a stone
bridge
  of the 16th and 17th centuries, guarded at the western extremity by massive towers. The manufacture of
cutlery
  is carried on on a large scale in villages on the banks of the Clain,
south
  of the town. Of the other industrial establishments the most important is the national small-arms factory, which was established in 1815 in Chateauneuf, and employs from 1500 to 5500 men. Chatellerault (or Chatelherault: Castellum Airaldi) derives its name from a fortress built in the loth
century
  by Airaud, viscount of its territory. In 1515 it was made a duchy in favour of Francois de Bourbon, but it was not
long
  after this date that it became reunited to the crown. In 1548 it was bestowed on James Hamilton, and
earl
  of
Arran
  (see HAMILTON).


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