Remiremont, a town of France (dept. Vosges), stands on the Moselle, 17 miles by rail SE. of Epinal. The remains of an abbey, founded in 620, are the finest building in the town. The abbess was a princess of the empire down to 1566; the nunnery was suppressed at the Revolution. Muslin, cotton, leather factories, and sawmills exist here. Pop. 8447.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 638
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