Tourcoing

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 256

Tourcoing, a frontier town of France, dept. of Nord, 10 miles NE. of Lille by rail, has manufactures of cloth, soap, beet-sugar, and machinery. Pop. (1881) 50,268; (1896) 73,353.

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