Northern France : from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs : handbook for travellers . (PL C, D, 4) and thePlace Jouffrorj (PL B, 2, 3). Fares 10-20 c; correspondance, 5 c. extra. Baths. Bains Salins. p. 353; Bains Granvelle, Rue de la Prefecture 10. Post & Telegraph Office, Grande-Rue 100, near the Palais Granvelle. Besancon (820ft.), a venerable town with 57,556 inhab., formerlythe capital of the Franche-Comte^ and now of the Departement duDoubs^ is mainly built on a tongue of land surrounded by the riverDoubs. It is a fortress of the first class, d
Northern France : from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs : handbook for travellers . (PL C, D, 4) and thePlace Jouffrorj (PL B, 2, 3). Fares 10-20 c; correspondance, 5 c. extra. Baths. Bains Salins. p. 353; Bains Granvelle, Rue de la Prefecture 10. Post & Telegraph Office, Grande-Rue 100, near the Palais Granvelle. Besancon (820ft.), a venerable town with 57,556 inhab., formerlythe capital of the Franche-Comte^ and now of the Departement duDoubs^ is mainly built on a tongue of land surrounded by the riverDoubs. It is a fortress of the first class, defended by a citadel onthe hill rising from the middle of the neck of the peninsula (1205 ft.;to the ), and by detached forts on the neighbouring heights. Be-sancon is the headquarters of the Vllth Corps dArmee and the seatof an archbishop, of a university, and of an artillery-school. It is alsoan important industrial centre, the staple industry being the manu-facture of clocks and watches, which affords employment to one-fifth of the population and furnishes more than four-fifths of the Chaprai Vesoifl /self ort A. Gravr el impriin< pax
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