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MEAUX

Volume 13 · 65 words · 1810 Edition

an ancient town of France, in the department of the Seine and Marne, with a bishop's see, seated in a place abounding in corn and cattle, on the river Marne, which divides it into two parts; and its trade consists in corn, wool, and cheese. It sustained a siege of three months against the English in 1421.

E. Long. 2. 58. N. Lat. 48. 58.