Chauny, a town in the French department of Aisne, 77 miles NNE. of Paris by rail, partly on the navigable river Oise. It is an old, rather uninteresting place, with manufactures of glass, beetroot sugar, gloves, &c. Pop. 8847.
Chauny
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 139
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