a town of France, capital of the department of Aube, and of an arrondissement of its own name, is situated in an extensive plain on the left bank of the Seine, 112 miles S.E. from Paris by railway. It is surrounded by old walls, and has generally an antique appearance—most of the houses being old, many of them of wood—and the streets are commonly narrow and crooked. Many of the recent erections, however, are constructed with more regard to taste and regularity, and some of the suburbs, of which there are several, are well built. Among its public buildings are the cathedral, a fine Gothic edifice commenced in the thirteenth though not finished till the sixteenth century; the churches of St Urban and Santa Madeleine, the town-hall, the library containing 60,000 volumes, and theatre. The manufactures of the town are important, and are fostered by the abundant supply of water obtained from the river, and distributed over the town by means of numerous canals. The chief manufactures are cotton and woollen yarn and fabrics, linens, paper, leather, &c. Dyeing and bleaching are also largely carried on. Troyes is the seat of a bishop, and has tribunals of primary instance and commerce. Troyes occupies the site of the ancient Augustobona, the chief town of the Tricasses. It afterwards became the capital of the county of Champagne and a great centre of trade; the fairs of Troyes, where the products of Italy and the south of France were exchanged for those of Germany and Flanders, were celebrated throughout Europe. It suffered severely in the civil wars of the fifteenth century, and was taken by Joan of Arc in 1429. In the campaign of 1814 it was several times taken and retaken by the French and the allies. Pop. (1856) 30,966.