Nogent-le-Rotrou. a town in the French department of Eure-et-Loir, prettily situated on the Huisne, 93 miles by rail SW. of Paris. It is a long, well-built place, with the ruined château of the great Sully, his violated sepulchre, and a statue of General Saint-Pol, who fell before Sebastopol. The Germans here won two fights, on 21st November 1870 and 6th January 1871. Pop. 7346.
Nogent-le-Rotrou.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson
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