FLERS, a manufacturing town of north-western France, in the arrondissement of Domfront, and department of the Orne, on the Vere, 41 m. S. of Caen on the railway to Laval. Pop. (1931) 10,946. There is a restored château of the 15th century. Flers has a tribunal of commerce and a board of trade-arbitrators. It is the centre of a cotton and linen-manufacturing region which in cludes the towns of Conde-sur-Noireau and La Ferte-Mace. Bricks and tiles, drugs, chemicals and dyes are made.