Decazeville
DECAZEVILLE, a town of south-central France, in the department of Aveyron, 34 m. N.W. of Rodez by the Orleans railway. Pop. (1906) 9749. It possesses iron mines and is the centre of the coal-fields of the Aveyron, which supply the ironworks established by the Due Decazes, minister of Louis XVIII. A statue commemorates the founder.
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
