the middle ages. In the 9th century Tours also became the ecclesiastical metropolis of Brittany, Maine and Anjou, and when the empire was divided by Louis the Pious into various districts or missatica, Tours was the centre of one of these, the boundaries of which corresponded roughly with those of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the city. Touraine suffered from the invasions of the Northmen, who massacred the monks of Marmoutier in 853, but never pillaged Tours. The administration of Touraine was entrusted, from Merovingian times onward, to counts appointed by the crown. The office became hereditary in 940 or 941 with Thibault the Old or the “Tricheur.” His son Odo I. was attacked by Fulk the Black, count of Anjou, and despoiled of part of his territory. His grandson Thibault III., who refused homage to Henry I., king of France, in 1044, was entirely dispossessed by Geoffrey of Anjou, called the Hammer (d. 1060). The 7th count, Fulk (d. 1109), ruled both Anjou and Touraine, and the county of Touraine remained under the domination of the counts of Anjou (q.v.) until Henry II. of England deprived his brother Geoffrey of Touraine by force of arms. Henry II. carried out many improvements, but peace was destroyed by the revolt of his sons. Richard Coeur de Lion, in league with Philip Augustus, had seized Touraine, and after his death Arthur of Brittany was recognized as count. In 1204 it was united to the French crown, and its cession was formally acknowledged by King John at Chinon in 1214. Philip appointed Guillaume des Roches hereditary seneschal in 1204, but the dignity was ceded to the crown in 1312. Touraine was granted from time to time to princes of the blood as an appanage of the crown of France. In 1328 it was held by Jeanne of Burgundy, queen of France; by Philip, duke of Orleans, in 1344; and in 1360 it was made a peerage duchy on behalf of Philip the Bold, afterwards duke of Burgundy. It was the scene of dispute between Charles, afterwards Charles VII., and his mother, Isabel of Bavaria, who was helped by the Burgundians. After his expulsion from Paris by the English Charles spent much of his time in the châteaux of Touraine, although his seat of government was at Bourges. He bestowed the duchy successively on his wife Mary of Anjou, on Archibald Douglas and on Louis III. of Anjou. It was the dower of Mary Stuart as the widow of Francis II. The last duke of Touraine was Francis, duke of Alençon, who died in 1584. Plessis-les-Tours had been the favourite residence of Louis XI., who granted many privileges to the town of Tours, and increased its prosperity by the establishment of the silk-weaving industry. The reformed religion numbered many adherents in Touraine, who suffered in the massacres following on the conspiracy of Amboise; and, though in 1562 the army of Conde pillaged the city of Tours, the marshal of St Andre reconquered Touraine for the Catholic party. Many Huguenots emigrated after the massacre of St Bartholomew, and after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes the silk industry, which had been mainly in the hands of the Huguenots, was almost destroyed. This migration was one of the prime causes of the extreme poverty of the province in the next century. At the Revolution the nobles of Touraine made a declaration expressing their sympathy with the ideas of liberty and fraternity. Among the many famous men who were born within its boundaries are Jean le Meingre Boucicaut, marshal of France, Béroalde de Verville, author of the Moyen de parvenir, Rabelais, Cardinal Richelieu, C. J. Avisseau, the potter (1796–1861), the novelist Balzac and the poet Alfred de Vigny.
See the quarterly publication of the Mémoires of the Société archéologique de Touraine (1842, &c.) which include a Dictionnaire géographique, historique et biographique (6 vols., 1878–1884), by J. X. Carré de Busserolle. There are histories of Touraine and its monuments by Chalmel (4 vols. Paris, 1828), by S. Bellanger (Paris, 1845), by Bourrassé (1858). See also Dupin de Saint André, Hist. du protestantisme en Touraine (Paris, 1885); T. A. Cook, Old Touraine (2 vols. London, 1892).
TOURCOING, a manufacturing town of northern France
in the department of Nord, less than a mile from the Belgian
frontier, and 8 m. N.N.E. of Lille on the railway to
Ghent. Pop. (1906), 62,694 (commune, 81,671), of whom
about one-third are natives of Belgium. Tourcoing is practically
one with Roubaix to the south, being united thereto by
a tramway and a branch of the Canal de Roubaix. The public
institutions comprise a tribunal of commerce, a board of trade
arbitrators, a chamber of commerce, an exchange and a conditioning
house for textiles. Together with Roubaix, Tourcoing
ranks as one of the chief textile centres of France. Its chief
industry is the combing, spinning and twisting of wool
carried on in some eighty factories employing between
10,000 and 12,000 workpeople. The spinning and twisting
of cotton is also important. The weaving establishments
produce woollen and mixed woollen and cotton fabrics together
with silk and satin drapery, swanskins, jerseys and other fancy
goods. The making of velvet pile carpets and upholstering
materials is a speciality of the town. To these industries
must be added those of dyeing, the manufacture of hosiery,
of the machinery and other apparatus used in the textile factories
and of soap.
Famed since the 12th century for its woollen manufactures, Tourcoing was fortified by the Flemings in 1477, when Louis XI of France disputed the inheritance of Charles the Bold with Mary of Burgundy, but in the same year was taken and pillaged by the French. In 1794 the Republican army, under Generals Moreau and Souham, gained a decisive victory over the Austrians, the event being commemorated by a monument in the public garden. The inhabitants, 18,000 in 1789, were reduced by the French Revolution to 10,000.
TOURMALINE, a mineral of much interest to the physicist
on account of its optical and electrical properties; it is
also of some geological importance as a rock-constituent
(see Schorl), whilst certain transparent varieties have economic
value as gem-stones. The name is probably a corruption
of turmali, or toramalli, the native name applied to tourmaline
and zircon in Ceylon, whence specimens of the former mineral
were brought to Europe by the Dutch in 1703. The green
tourmaline of Brazil had, however, been known here much
earlier; and coarse varieties of the mineral had passed for centuries
under the German name of Schörl, an old mining word
of uncertain origin, possibly connected with the old German
Schor (refuse), in allusion to the occurrence of the mineral with
the waste of the tin-mines. The German village of Schorlau
may have taken its name from the mineral. It has been
suggested that the Swedish form skörl has possible connexion
with the word skör, brittle.
Tourmaline crystallizes in the rhombohedral division of the
hexagonal system. The crystals have generally a prismatic habit, the
prisms being longitudinally striated or even channelled. Trigonal
prisms are characteristic, so that a transverse section becomes
triangular or often nine-sided. By combination of several prisms
the crystals may become sub-cylindrical. The crystals when doubly
Fig. 1
terminated are often hemimorphic or present dissimilar forms at
the opposite ends; thus the hexagonal
prisms in fig. 1 are terminated at one end
by rhombohedral faces, o, P, and at the
other by the basal plane k′. Doubly-terminated
crystals, however, are comparatively
rare ; the crystals being usually
attached at one end to the matrix. It is
notable that prismatic crystals of tourmaline
have in some cases been curved
and fractured transversely; the displaced
fragments having been cemented together
by deposition of fresh mineral matter. Tourmaline is not infrequently
columnar, acicular or fibrous; and the fibres may radiate
from a centre so as to form the so-called “tourmaline suns.”
Crystals of tourmaline present no distinct cleavage, but break with
a sub-conchoidal fracture; and whilst the general lustre of the
mineral is vitreous, that of the fractured surface is rather pitchy.
The hardness is slightly above that of quartz (7). The specific
gravity varies according to chemical composition, that of the
colourless varieties being about 3, whilst in schorl it may rise to 3·2.
Tourmaline has a great range of colour, and in many cases the crystals are curiously parti-coloured. Occasionally, though rarely, the mineral is colourless, and is then known as achroite, a name proposed by R. Hermann in 1845, and derived from the Greek ἄχροος (uncoloured). Red tourmaline, which when of fine colour is the most valued of all varieties, is known as rubellite (q.v.). Green
tourmaline is by no means uncommon, but the blue is rather rare
