FLERS
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FLERS , a manufacturing town of north-western France, in the arrondissement of Domfront, and department of Gene, on the Vere, 41 m. S. of Caen on the railway to Laval . Pop. (1906) 11,188. A modern church See Also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
in the Romanesque style and a restored chateau 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. Flees 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 f 1,500,000, drugs and chemicals; there are large brick and tile works, flour
mills and dyeworks:
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