MEUDON
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V18,
Page 314
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
MEUDON
, a town of northern France, in the department of Seine-et- Oise, 6 m
.
E. of Versailles by rail and about 21 M
.
S.W. of Paris
.
Pop
.
(1906), 9597
.
The remains of a castle (17th century) burned during the siege of Paris in 1871 have since been adapted as an observatory
.
Its terrace commands a fine view of Paris
.
The handsome Galliera Institutions, on the See also: - HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
of Fleury, were founded by the duchess of Galliera for the reception of aged persons and orphans
.
The buildings were completed in 1885, at a cost of £56o,000
.
The town has a monument of Rabelais, who was cure there in 1553, and manufactures munitions of war for the artillery, and in the neighbouring park of Chalais is the Government military ballooning establishment
.
In the 16th century the cardinal, Charles of Lorraine, built at Meudon a magnificent chateau, which was destroyed in 1803
.
The present remains belong to a building erected by the dauphin, son of See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
XIV
.
The wood of Meudon lies for the most part to the west of the town
.
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