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CHARENTON

Volume 3 · 60 words · 1778 Edition

the name of two towns of France, the one upon the Marne in the Bourbonnois; the other in the ile de France, near the confluence of the Marne with the Seine.

CHARLES the Lydian, a celebrated satyrus, was the disciple of Lycurgus; and made the famous Colossus of the sun in the city of Rhodes. Flourished 288 years before Christ.