Roubaix, a busy town in the department of Nord, N. of France; situated on a canal 6 m. NE. of Lille; is of modern growth; actively engaged in the manufacture of all kinds of textiles, in brewing, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 115,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rotti * Roubilliac, Louis François