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SAARLOUIS

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 954 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
SAARLOUIS , a town and former fortress of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine Province, situated in a fertile
district
  on the left bank of the Saar, and on the railway from Saarbrucken to Trier, 4c M. S. of the latter. Pop. (1905) 8313. The town is well laid out and has spacious streets and a handsome market square. It contains a Roman Catholic and a
Protestant
  church, a town
hall
 , the walls of the council chamber in which are hung with Gobelins, the
gift
  of Louis XIV., a classical school and a
hospital
 
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. There are coal-mines in the vicinity, and the town has consider-able manufactures of
porcelain
 , enamel wares and leather, as well as a brisk trade in cattle and grain.
Saarlouis was founded in 1681 by Louis XIV. of France, and was fortified by Vauban in 168o-1685. By the peace of Paris, in 1815, it was ceded to the allies and by them was made over to Prussia. The fortifications were dismantled in 1889.
Marshal
  Ney was born here.
See Niessen, Geschichte des Kreises Saarlouis (Saarlouis, 1893 and 1897) ; and Baltzer, Historische Notizen fiber die Stadt Saarlouis (Trier, 1865).


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