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Chaumont

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Chaumont (shōmōN`), town (1990 pop. 28,900), capital of Haute-Marne dept., NE France, in Champagne, at the confluence of the Marne and Saize rivers. It is a railroad and light industrial center. Iron is mined nearby. The Treaty of Chaumont, signed on Mar. 1, 1814, by England, Russia, Prussia, and Austria, laid the foundation for the Holy Alliance Holy Alliance, 1815, agreement among the emperors of Russia and Austria and the king of Prussia, signed on Sept. 26. It was quite distinct from the Quadruple Alliance (Quintuple, after the admission of France) of Great Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, arrived
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It draws hordes of Parisians throughout the week to "La Villette" complex, with its ultra-modern science museum and multi-themed gardens, or to the green slopes, footpaths and traditional puppet show -- "Le Guignol" -- of the Buttes Chaumont, a former quarry transformed into a vast park in the 19th-century Haussmannian rebuilding of Paris.
 
 
 
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