St Cloud, a town of France, dept. Seine-et-Oise, situated on an eminence near the Seine, 10 miles by rail W. of Paris. Henry III. was assassinated here in 1589 by the fanatical monk Jacques Clément. St Cloud was long famous on account of its magnificent château, built by Louis XIV.'s brother, the Duke of Orleans. Napoleon planned and carried out here the coup of 18th Brumaire, and after he became emperor made this château his favourite place of residence. It was destroyed, and its magnificent park (in which stands the Sèvres porcelain-factory) greatly injured, during the siege of Paris in 1870. Pop. 5316.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 83
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