Meaux

Meaux, a town in the French department of Seine-et-Marne, on a height above the river Marne, 28 miles NE. of Paris. It is a bishop's see, and in its noble Gothic cathedral (12-16th century, but still unfinished) is the grave of Bossuet (q.v.), who was bishop for twenty-three years. There is a large trade with Paris in corn, flour, cream-cheeses, &c. Meaux was besieged by the serfs of La Jacquerie (1358), and captured from the League (1594). Pop. (1872) 11,202; (1891) 12,704. See Carro, Histoire de Meaux (1865).