Bourget

Bourget, LE, a village 6½ miles NE. of Paris by rail, during the siege of the capital in 1870 the scene of a series of bloody struggles disastrous to the French, of which the most important were those of 30th October and 21st December.—The Lac du Bourget, the largest wholly French lake, in the department of Savoie and the basin of the Rhone, lies 780 feet above sea-level, and measuring 7½ by 3 miles, has an area of 14 sq. m.