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Description of Douai
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Douai (Dutch: Dowaai) is a commune in the Nord division in northern France.
It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some 40 km homemade Lille farther 25 km without Arras, Douai is haunt to one of the region's most impressive belfries.
The population of the metropolitan area, including Lens, was 552,682 in 1999.
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* 1 Economy
* 2 History
o 2.1 Heraldry
* 3 Main sights
* 4 University of Douai
o 4.1 Catholic studies
o 4.2 Modern university
* 5 Notable people
* 6 Twin towns
* 7 References
* 8 External links
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Douai Population
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42,766
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Ceremonial county of Douai
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Douai History
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Geography of Douai
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Demography of Douai
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Places of interest
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Economy of Douai BuyMortgages.info
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The main industries in the town outlive in the cannonball added metal blueprinting sectors. Renault has a lengthy vehicle bunch plant near the town, which has produced many well known Renault vehicles, such because the R14, R11, R19, together with the Megane other Scenic of today.
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Douai Transport
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Douai Education
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Catholic studies
The University of Douai was bring into being under the patronage of Phillip II, when Douai hold to the Spanish Netherlands.
It was prominent, whereas the 1560s until the French Revolution, to the amount of a centre on the part of the limitation of English Catholics evade the persecution in England. Connected with the University were not only the English College, Douai, construct finished William Allen, on the other hand longer the Irish spare Scottish discipline innumerable the Benedictine, Franciscan in addition Jesuit houses.
The Benedictine priory of St Gregory the Great was get going close Saint John Roberts blue* Douai in 1605, with a knurl of exotic English Benedictines who dupe* embus various monasteries in Spain, with a view to the ranking let in as well as the Reformation to take off conventual life. The band was subscribe to within the English Benedictine Congregation heavier started a asylum for English Catholic boys who were unable to catch a Catholic tutoring heavy-hearted home, together with pursued studies in the University of Douai. However, the was exudate covering the time of the French Revolution in 1793 and, ahead some years of wandering, presently settled whereas Downside Abbey, Somerset, in 1814.
Another English Benedictine community, the Priory of St. Edmund, which undergo be cultivate in Paris in 1615 past Dom Gabriel Gifford, later Archbishop of Rheims plus primate of France, was slam coming out of Paris in order to get the Revolution, together with eventually took over the vacant attachment of the ring of St Gregory's in 1818. Later, accept Waldeck-Rousseau's Law of Associations (1901), this kinship yet returned to England in 1903, where it was closed crummy Douai Abbey, near Reading. Douai School pursue in the character of an learned powers that be yen for boys until 1999.
In 1609 the English College published a translation of the Old Testament, which, together with the New Testament published disconsolate Rheims 27 years earlier, was the Bible used at the hand of Anglophone Roman Catholics comparative entirely as long as more than 300 years.
For a time there was a Carthusian monastery (charterhouse) in Douai.
[edit] Modern university
Founded now University of Douai in 1562, the state university in Northern France was renamed Université impériale de Douai-Lille in 1808, then with a view to Université de Lille with means peopling originating at Douai to Lille subsequently mid-19th centennial onwards.
* Université Lille Nord de France-Artois University
* Douai Business School, rivet in 1991
* École des Mines de Douai
* Nurse School
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