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Town Hall of Roubaix

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Town Hall and famous city of history and art

Roubaix was named by the French Ministry of Culture city of history and art. In the year 1911, is was the European center of fabric. All Northern France is full of factories that make the best fabrics, clothes and costumes of the country. The climax came when the city hosted international exposure of cloth, and that was when the "hotel de ville", the lovely town hall opened. It is a work of architect Victor Laloux, constructed to the glory of the textile industry, because at this time of industrial expansion it was thought that the success of the city was going to last forever. But in the year 1914, during WWI, the city suffered, and the textile industry the most.

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