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CHARENTON

Volume 5 · 60 words · 1815 Edition

the name of two towns of France, the one upon the Marne and the Bourbnois; the other in the Ille de France, near the confluence of the Marne with the Seine.

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