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BRIENNE LE CHATEAU

Volume 5 · 56 words · 1860 Edition

a town of France, department of Aube, 14 miles N.W. of Bar-sur-Aube. Pop. 2000. It has a fine castle, but is chiefly celebrated as being the place where Napoleon received the rudiments of his military education, and where in 1814 a bloody battle was fought between the French and the allied forces of Russia and Prussia.