Roubaix
a town of France, in the department of Nord; 6 miles N. E. of Lille; is a highly important seat of the French textile industry, remarkable for its rapid growth, most of it being not more than 50 years old. Woolens, cottons, and silk or mixed stuffs are chiefly made; also beet sugar, machinery, etc.
During the World War it saw much fighting and suffered severely. Pop. about 122,000.