Châlons
Americannoun
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Also called Châlons-sur-Marne. a city in and the capital of Marne, in NE France: defeat of Attila a.d. 451.
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Also called Châlons-sur-Saône. a city in E France, on the Saône River. 60,451.
Example Sentences
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He told me he was making a tour, and was now doing the neighbourhood about Reims and Châlons.
From A Nest of Spies by Allain, Marcel
The route is practicable even to-day, though probably not at the prices given, and one does not go by steamboat from Châlons to Lyons, though he may from Lyons to Avignon.
From Dumas' Paris by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
Early in the morning of the day on which the meeting took place in the private office of the Under-Secretary of State, the proprietor of The Three Moons at Châlons was busy bottling his wine.
From A Nest of Spies by Allain, Marcel
On that rosy August dawn Count Saxe, with a small escort, started for the Rhine by way of Châlons.
From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot
I expressed my astonishment that he would not wait till he got to Châlons, where he could procure one like it for the sum of twenty sous.
From A Nest of Spies by Allain, Marcel
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