Haute-Marne

American  

[oht-marn] / oʊtˈmarn /

noun

1. a department in E France. 2,416 sq. mi. (6,255 sq. km). Chaumont.

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Haute-Marne British  

/ otmarn /

noun

1. a department of NE France, in Champagne-Ardenne region. Capital: Chaumont. Pop: 190 983 (2003 est). Area: 6257 sq km (2440 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

"Protected or not, farmers will have the right to shoot to protect" their herds, Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard said on a visit to the northeastern department of Haute-Marne.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

It occurred in Illand, a little village in the county of Bar, which to-day belongs to the Department of Haute-Marne, not far from the native place of both my maternal grandfather and myself.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

CHAUMONT-EN-BASSIGNY, a town of eastern France, capital of the department of Haute-Marne, a railway junction 163 m.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

He was educated at the �cole des Chartes, and became successively keeper of the archives of the department of Haute-Marne and of the imperial archives at Paris under the empire.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

River Aube, which gives name to the department, rises in Haute-Marne, flows N.W., and after a course of 113 miles joins the Seine.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various