HAVRE, Mont., city and county-seat of Hill County, on the Great Northern Railroad, 80 miles northeast of Fort Benton. The Great Northern Railroad maintains extensive repair shops here. The city has also large invest ments in stock-raising, farming and coal-min ing, all of which industries are vigorously car ried on in the vicinity. The city owns the water-supply system. Pop. 3,624.
HAVRE, 5.-vr, Le, France (formerly LE HAVRE-DE-GRACE, la-vr-de-gras), an important commercial town and the second seaport of the country, in the department of Seine-In ferieure, on the north side of the estuary of the Seine, 143 miles by rail northwest of Paris. The town, comparatively modern, is built of brick or stone, with regular, straight, wide and well-cleaned streets. The public buildings include the church of Notre Dame, in bastard architecture, partly Gothic; the town-house, formerly the governor's palace; the Palais de Justice; the round tower of Francis I; the theatre, arsenal, exchange, library and bar racks. Havre has a large commerce, for which its possesses great advantages. Its harbor is entered by a narrow channel formed by two long jetties stretching from east to west and kept dear by constant dredging. This channel leads to the outer harbor, an irregular expanse of no great extent, which is left dry at ebb-tide. Within the avant port are capacious wet-docks, lined with fine quays, eight miles in extent, and great warehouses. Havre commands the greater part of the import and export trade of Paris and of the more important towns in the north of France; importing vast quantities of colonial and other produce, among which cotton holds a most important place; and exporting articles of French manufacture. The total mari
time movement of the port of Havre in 1916 was 17,700 vessels of 8,579,359 tons, compared with 12,810 vessels of 6,337,275 tons in 1915. The manufactures consist of paper, starch, lace, oil, refined sugar, cables and other marine cord age, chemicals, glass, sulphuric acid, earthen and stoneware. There are also breweries, gun factories and electrical works. From the building-yards a great number of sailing ves sels and steamers are annually fitted out. In the 15th century Havre became of importance to form a new harbor in consequence of the silting up of that of Harfieur. The project was conceived and some progress made in it by Louis XII; but Havre continued little more than a fishing village till the time of Francis I, who erected numerous works and at im mense expense gained, the greater part of the present site of the town from the sea. A citadel was afterward built and Havre, as a place of strength, became the object of repeated contests between French and English. In October 1914, after the overrunning of Belgium by German armies, became the location of the Belgian government. Pop. 136,159.