NEUFCHATEAU, a town of France, in Lor-
rain, and capital of the châtellenie of Chatenois. It is
an handsome, populous, trading town; having an
abbey of the nuns of St Clair, a commandery of Malta,
and several convents of monks and nuns. It is seated
in a bottom, in a soil fertile in corn, wine, and all the
necessaries of life, on the river Mouzon. E. Long.
5. 45. N. Lat. 48. 20.