Montereau

Montereau, a town in the French department of Seine-et-Marne, at the confluence of the Seine and Yonne, 49 miles SE. of Paris. At the bridge here, in 1419, Jean-sans-Peur, Duke of Burgundy, was assassinated in the presence of the young Dauphin, afterwards Charles VII.; and in the immediate vicinity Napoleon, on February 18, 1814, gained his last victory over the allies. Pop. 7519.