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Nanterre
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a town of northern France, with a port on the Seine, in the department of Seine, at the foot of Mount Valerien, 8 m. N.W. of Paris on the railway to St Germain. Pop. (1906), town, 11,874; commune, 17,434. The principal manufactures are chemicals, tallow and aluminium; stone quarried in the vicinity; the town is noted also for its cakes. The combined prison and mendacity depot for the department is a large institution, about 2 m. from the town. Nanterre (the ancient Nemptodurum or Nemetodurum) owes its origin to the shrine of Ste Genevieve (420-512), the patron-saint of Paris, whose name is still associated with various places in the town and district. The shrine is the object of a pilgrimage in September.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Nanterre'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/n/nanterre.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Nanterre'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/n/nanterre.html. 1910.
