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Volume 3 · 54 words · 1860 Edition

a handsome town of France, nine miles northeast of Dreux. It has the ruins of a castle, built for Diana of Poictiers by Henri II., and destroyed in the revolution of 1792. Pop. 1421. Near it is the plain of Ivry, where Henri IV. defeated the armies of the League under Mayenne, in 1590.