Brienne-le-Château

Brienne-le-Château, a town of 1800 inhabitants in the French department of Aube, on the right bank of the river Aube, 35 miles ENE. of Troyes. At the military school here (suppressed in 1790) the great Napoleon spent five years. Here, too, he was defeated by the allies, after a desperate struggle in the last days of January 1814. This victory opened the way to Paris, and led to the fall of the empire.