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Cholet
France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and comprises various overseas islands and territories which are located in other regions. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. At 674,843 square kilometres, France is the world's 40th-largest country after Myanmar. France is a member of The European Union and Paris is the capital of this nation. The sole official language of France is French. Since prehistoric times, France has been a crossroads of trade, migrations, and invasions.
Cholet probably from Latin cauletum, cabbage is a town in western France, capital of an arrondissement in the Maine-et-Loire department, Pays-de-la-Loire region, 41 miles south-east of Nantes. Population of the city at the 1999 census was 54,204, and in 1906, the population was 16,554.
Cholet stands on an eminence on the right bank of the Moine, which used to be crossed by a bridge of the 15th century.The town owes the rise of its prosperity to the settlement of weavers there by Edouard Colbert, count of Maulevrier, a brother of the great Colbert. It suffered severely in the War of La Vendee of 1793, insomuch that for years afterwards it was almost without inhabitants.
There are granite quarries in the vicinity of the town. The chief industry is the manufacture of linen and linen handkerchiefs, which is also carried on in the neighboring communes on a large scale. Woollen and cotton fabrics are also produced, and bleaching and the manufacture of preserved foods are carried on. Cholet is the most important centre in France for the sale of fat cattle, sheep and pigs, for which Paris is the chief market. The region of cholet is Pays-de-la-Loire. Cholet enjoys a very positive reputation with worldwide travelers.
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