Châlons
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Also called Châlons-sur-Marne. a city in and the capital of Marne, in NE France: defeat of Attila a.d. 451.
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Also called Châlons-sur-Saône. a city in E France, on the Saône River. 60,451.
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These last few days at Châlons I have been terrified: I believe that they suspect me, that they suspect Nichoune, that my superiors have me under supervision!
From A Nest of Spies by Marcel Allain
Meanwhile Mac-Mahon, cut off from Bazaine's main army, fell back, between August 6 and August 17, to Châlons.
From A History of the Third French Republic by C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad) Wright
The coche d'eau, as it is whimsically called, is a passage-boat which plies between Châlons and Lyons: places are reserved in it for those who may arrive by the diligence from Paris.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste
Most of the witnesses were officers and men belonging to the garrisons of Verdun and Châlons.
From A Nest of Spies by Marcel Allain
Haynald, Meignan, Bishop of Châlons, and the Chaldean Patriarch, insisted that mere school questions should not be decided by the Council without any necessity, and that some freedom of movement must be left to Science.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
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