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Aisne (ĕn), department (1990 pop. 537,600), NE France, in Île-de-France Île-de-France (ēl-də-fräNs) ..... Click the link for more information. , Picardy Picardy (pĭk`ərdē), Fr. Picardie, region and former province, N France, on the English Channel. ..... Click the link for more information. , and Champagne Champagne (shäNpä`nyə) ..... Click the link for more information. , touching the Belgian border. Laon Laon (läN), commercial town (1990 pop. 28,670), capital of Aisne dept., N France. ..... Click the link for more information. is the capital. Aisne 1. a department of NE France, in Picardy region. Capital: Laon. Pop.: 535 326 (2003 est.). Area: 7428 sq. km (2897 sq. miles) 2. a river in N France, rising in the Argonne Forest and flowing northwest and west to the River Oise: scene of a major Allied offensive in 1918 which turned the tide finally against Germany in World War I. Length: 282 km (175 miles) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He was also an
undistinguished robin who married into the provincial aristocracy of the
sword at the age of fifty, and ended his days successfully prosecuting
his wife's many lawsuits and expanding their holdings in the valley
of the Aisne. In 1976 when she was 82,
Brier published Entre Aisne et Meuse et au-dela, (2) a memoir that is
most unusual in content and form. (44) In 1886,
the depot de mendicite of the Aisne contained 200 elderly indigent or
infirm, 102 idiots, 33 epileptics, 23 blind, and 43 children under the
age of 16. |
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