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Lens is a city in Nord-Pas de Calais, France. A former industrial city, its wealth was founded on textiles and coal mining. In 2009 it will open a branch museum of the Louvre, 'Louvre-Lens'.

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The railway station, built in the 1920s, an early Art Deco work.

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The Vimy Monument, which commemorates the battle of Vimy Ridge in the First World War, and particularly the Canadian troops involved in the action.

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