demic of 1892 in the Russian Empire_; Wall, _Asiatic
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CHOLET, a town of western France, capital of an arrondissement in the
department of Maine-et-Loire, 41 m. S.E. of Nantes on the Ouest-Etat
railway between that town and Poitiers. Pop. (1906) 16,554. Cholet
stands on an eminence on the right bank of the Moine, which is crossed
by a bridge of the 15th century. A public garden occupies the site of
the old castle; the public buildings and churches, the finest of which
is Notre-Dame, are modern. The public institutions include the
sub-prefecture, a tribunal of first instance, a chamber of commerce, a
board of trade-arbitrators, and a communal college. 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 neighbouring 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. Megalithic monuments are numerous in the
neighbourhood. 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.

CHOLON ("great market"), a town of French Indo-China, the largest
commercial centre of Cochin China, 31/2 m. S.W. of Saigon, with which it
is united by railway, steam-tramway and canal. Cholon was founded by
Chinese immigrants about 1780, and is situated on the Chinese arroyo at
the junction of the Lo-Gom and a canal. Its waterways are frequented by
innumerable boats and lined in some places with native dwellings built
on piles, in others by quays and houses of French construction. Its
population is almost entirely Asiatic, and has more than trebled since
1880. In that year it had only 45,000 inhabitants; in 1907 it numbered
about 138,000. Of these, 42,000 were Chinese, 73,000 Annamese, and 155
Fr