Varcennes, a town of 1900 inhabitants in the French dept. of Meuse, 18 miles NW. of Verdun, where Louis XVI. and his family were captured in the attempt to escape across the frontier, 22d June 1791. See book by O. Browning (1892).
Varcennes
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 427
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