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Volume 2 · 52 words · 1815 Edition

a town of France, in Lower Picardy, now the department of the Straits of Calais. Here was an interview between Francis I. and Henry VIII., King of England in 1520. It is seated in the midst of a morass eight miles south of Calais. E. Long. 2. 6; N. Lat. 50. 35.