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Carmaux — A mining town, north of Albi
A town whose coal mines, worked since the eighteenth century, employed some three thousand people in 1892 out of a population of about ten thousand; a glassworks used the coal. The mining company belonged to the Solages family, one of whom sat as the constituency’s deputy. (Editorial synthesis)
Carmaux is located in the Tarn. (source: Larousse)
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