Fréjus

Fréjus, a small town in the French department of Var, a mile inland from the Mediterranean Sea, and 22 miles SW. of Cannes by rail. It was originally a colony from Marseilles, and was afterwards colonised anew by Julius Cæsar, and called Forum Julii; here Agricola was born. It has traces of a lighthouse, walls, an amphitheatre (restored, 1868–69), and other Roman remains. The ancient harbour, in which Augustus stationed the fleet of 300 galleys which had been captured from Antony at Actium, has become silted up. Here, or rather at the new harbour of St Raphael, $\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile off, Napoleon landed on his return from Egypt in 1799, and embarked for Elba in 1814. Pop. 2712.