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MAUBEUGE , a town of northern France, in the department of Nord, situated on both banks of the Sambre, here canalized, 234 M. by rail E. by S. of Valenciennes, and about 2 M. from the Belgian frontier. Pop. (1906), town 13,569, commune 21,520. As a fortress Maubeuge has an old enceinte of bastion trace which serves as the centre of an important entrenched camp of 18 m. perimeter, constructed for the most part after the war of 187o, but since modernized and augmented. The town has a board of trade arbitration, a communal college, a commercial and industrial school; and there are important foundries, forges and blast-furnaces, together with manufactures of machine-tools, porcelain
Maubeuge (Malbodium) owes its origin to a double
Henry
Turenne
Wattignies
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