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CHAUX DE FONDS, LA

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 20 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHA-CHR
CHAUX DE FONDS, LA , a large industrial town in the Swiss
canton
  of Neuchatel. It is about 19 M. by rail N.W. of Neuchatel, and stands at a height of about 3255 ft. in a valley (5 m.
long
 ) of the same name in the Jura. Pop. (woo) 35,968 (only 13,659 in 1850); (1905) 38,700, mainly French-speaking and Protestants; of the 6114 " Catholics " the
majority
  are " Old Catholics." It is a centre of the
watch
 -making industry, especially of gold
watch
  cases; about 70% of those manufactured in Switzerland are turned out here. In 1900 it exported watches to the value of nearly 3,000,000
sterling
 . There is a school of industrial art (engraving and enamelling watch cases) and a school of watch-making (including instruction in the manufacture of chronometers and other scientific
instruments
  of precision). It boasts of being le plus gros
village
  de l'Europe, and certainly has preserved some of the features of a big
village
 .
Leopold
  Robert (1794-1835), the painter, was born here. (W. A. B. C.).


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