FLERS

flers, a manufacturing town of north-western france, in the arrondissement of domfront, and department of orne, on the vere, 41 m. s. of caen on the railway to laval. pop. (1906) 11,188. a modern church in the romanesque style and a restored chateau of the 15th century are its principal buildings. there is a tribunal of commerce, a board of trade-arbitrators, a communal college and a branch of the bank of france. flers is the centre of a cotton and linen-manufacturing region which includes the towns of conde-sur-noireau and la ferte-mace. manufactures are very important, and include, besides cotton and linen fabrics, of which the annual value is about l1,500,000, drugs and chemicals; there are large brick and tile works, flour mills and dyeworks.