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BAPAUME

Volume 4 · 57 words · 1860 Edition

a fortified town in France, capital of a canton in the department of Pas de Calais, 15 miles S.S.E. of Arras. It is neat and well built, has a parish church, hospital, communal college, and a fountain supplied with water by an artesian well. Its manufactures of lace, woollens, cottons, and fine thread, are considerable. Pop. 2973.