Château-Thierry, a town in the French department of Aisne, 59 miles E. by N. of Paris by rail, with manufactures of mathematical and musical instruments, dye-works, and quarries. It has the ruins of an old castle (720), and is the birthplace of Lafontaine; here, too, Napoleon defeated the Prussians and Russians, 12th February 1814. Pop. 6405.
Château-Thierry
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 132
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