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Decazeville

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a town of south-central France, in the department of Aveyron, 34 m. N.W. of Rodez by the Orleans railway. Pop. (1906) 9749It possesses iron mines and is the centre of the coal-fields of the Aveyron, which supply the ironworks established by the Duc Decazes, minister of Louis Xviii. A statue commemorates the founder.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Decazeville'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​d/decazeville.html. 1910.
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