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CHARENTON

Volume 4 · 60 words · 1797 Edition

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

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