Arcis-sur-Aube, a town of 3000 inhabitants in the French department of Aube, on the navigable Aube, 22 miles N. of Troyes by rail. It was the birthplace of Danton, and near it a battle was fought, March 20-21, 1814, between Napoleon and the allied forces under Prince Schwarzenberg, ending in a French retreat.
Arcis-sur-Aube
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 395
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