ROCROI  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of an See also:

• ARRONDISSEMENT (from arrondir, to make round)

arrondissement in the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• ARDENNES

Ardennes, 22 M . N.N.W. of See also:

• CHARLEVILLE

Charleville by See also:

• RAIL

rail, and within 2 M. of the Belgian frontier . Pop . (Igoe) town, 796; See also:

• COMMUNE (Med. Lat. communia, Lat. communis, common)
• COMMUNE, MEDIEVAL

commune, 2116 . As a fortified See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place it commands the Ardennes See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau between the valley of the See also:

• MEUSE
• MEUSE (Flem. Maes, Du. Maas)

Meuse and the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head-See also:

• WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters of the See also:

• OISE

Oise . The See also:

• PRESENT

present fortifications, constructed by See also:

• VAUBAN

Vauban, See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a pentagon and entirely See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close in the town, which has regularly built streets converging on a central square . Overlooking the latter is the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, a florid See also:

• BUILDING

building of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Rocroi is the seat of a sub-See also:

• PREFECT (prefet)

prefect and has a tribunal of first instance . The place, originally called Croix-de-See also:

• RAU, KARL HEINRICH (1792-1870)

Rau or Rau Croix, was fortified in the 16th century and besieged by the imperialists in 1555• Invested by the Spaniards in 1643, it was relieved by 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

Louis II., the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• ENGHIEN
• ENGHIEN, LOUIS ANTOINE HENRI DE BOURBON

Enghien (afterwards the See also:

• GREAT

Great-See also:

• CONDE
• CONDE, LOUIS DE BOURBON, PRINCE
• CONDE, LOUIS II
• CONDE, PRINCES OF

Conde), after a brilliant victory . Captured in 1658 by the same duke, then in the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish service, it was not restored to France till the treaty of the See also:

• PYRENEES [Span. Pirineos, Fr. Pyrenees]

Pyrenees in 1659 . In 1815 Rocroi was besieged for a See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month by the See also:

• ALLIES, THOMAS WILLIAM (1813-1903)

allies .