Bar-sur-Aube, a small town of France, in the department of Aube, situated on the right bank of the river of that name, 137 miles ESE. of Paris by rail. It has a pop. of 5000, employed in weaving and the manufacture of brandy. Here a council of the allied sovereigns was held in February 25, 1814; and here, two days after, the French were defeated by the allies.
Bar-sur-Aube
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 763
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