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Langres

(Encyclopedia)Langres läNˈgrə [key], town (1990 pop. 11,026), Haute-Marne dept., NE France. An agricultural center, its manufactures include machinery and plastics. It has an old and famous cutlery industry. An ...

Vitry-sur-Seine

(Encyclopedia)Vitry-sur-Seine vētrēˈ-sür-sĕn [key], city (1990 pop. 82,820), Val-de-Marne dept., N central France, on the Seine River; an industrial suburb SE of Paris. The chief products are lighting and heat...

Colombey-les-deux-Églises

(Encyclopedia)Colombey-les-deux-Églises kôlôNbāˈ-lā-döz-āglēzˈ [key], town, Haute-Marne dept., NE France. The home and gr...

Ivry-sur-Seine

(Encyclopedia)Ivry-sur-Seine ēvrēˈ-sür-sĕn [key], industrial and commercial suburb SE of Paris, Val-de-Marne dept., N ...

Maisons-Alfort

(Encyclopedia)Maisons-Alfort māzôNz-älfôrˈ [key], suburb SE of Paris (1990 pop. 54,065), Val-de-Marne dept., N central France. There is some agriculture, but it is mainly an industrial town producing chemicals...

Valmy

(Encyclopedia)Valmy välmēˈ [key], village (1993 est. pop. 293), Marne dept., NE France, in the Argonne region. The “cannonade of Valmy,” a Franco-Prussian artillery skirmish, was fought near there on Sept. 2...

Argonne

(Encyclopedia)Argonne ärgônˈ [key], region of the Paris basin, NE France, in Champagne and Lorraine (Meuse, Marne, and Ardennes dept.), a hilly and woody district centering around the capital, Sainte-Menehould. ...

Saône

(Encyclopedia)Saône sōn [key], river, 268 mi (431 km) long, rising in the Vosges Mts. near Épinal, E France, and flowing SW past Gray, Chalon-sur-Saône, and Mâcon to join the Rhône River at Lyons. An importan...

Eight, the

(Encyclopedia)Eight, the, group of American artists in New York City, formed in 1908 to exhibit paintings. They were men of widely different tendencies, held together mainly by their common opposition to academism....

Downs, The

(Encyclopedia)Downs, The, roadstead, c.8 mi (13 km) long and 6 mi (9.7 km) wide, between North Foreland and South Foreland, off Deal, Kent, SE England, in the English Channel. It is protected, except from strong so...