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Fourmies — A textile town of the Avesnois, near the Belgian border
A rural village of about two thousand people at the start of the nineteenth century, grown in sixty years into a textile town of more than fifteen thousand, a few kilometres from Belgium. Troops fired on a demonstration there. (Editorial synthesis)
Fourmies is located in the Nord. (source: INSEE, Code officiel géographique)
Recorded event that took place in Fourmies: the Fourmies shooting.
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