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GERMAIN-EN-LAYE

Volume 10 · 106 words · 1842 Edition

St, a city of France, in the department of the Seine and Oise, and arrondissement of Versailles, twelve miles from Paris. It is built on a slope rising from the river Seine. In the environs are some fine woods surrounding a park, in which is the royal palace, the birthplace of Louis XIV., and where our King James II. held his court after his loss of the British crown. The city contains about 12,000 inhabitants, some of whom are employed in tanneries and hosiery, and many in cultivating garden vegetables for the supply of the metropolis. Long. 2. 7. 35. E. Lat. 48. 50. 37. N.