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Aisne

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Aisne (ĕn), department (1990 pop. 537,600), NE France, in Île-de-France Île-de-France (ēl-də-fräNs)
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, Picardy Picardy (pĭk`ərdē), Fr. Picardie, region and former province, N France, on the English Channel.
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, and Champagne Champagne (shäNpä`nyə)
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, touching the Belgian border. Laon Laon (läN), commercial town (1990 pop. 28,670), capital of Aisne dept., N France.
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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)


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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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