Cateau, LE, or CATEAU-CAMBRESIS, a town in the French department of Nord, on the Selle, 14 miles ESE. of Cambrai. Population, 10,269. Here in 1559 the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis was concluded between Henry II. of France and Philip II. of Spain.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 2
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