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Marne
Marne river, c.325 mi (520 km) long, rising in the Langres plateau, NE France, and flowing in an arc generally NW to the Seine River near Paris. It passes through Chaumont and Châlons-en-Champagne. The Marne-Rhine Canal and the Marne-Saône Canal also connect with the Aisne, Meuse, Mosel... Read more
Picardy
Picardy , Fr. Picardie, region and former province, N France, on the English Channel. It includes the Somme, Oise, and Aisne depts. and has three main geographical regions: the plateau north of Paris, which is an important wheat and beet area; the Somme River valley, with manufacturing cities like... Read more
Saint-Quentin
Saint-Quentin , city (1990 pop. 62,085), Aisne dept., N France, on the Somme River. Foundry products, machinery, textiles, and food products are manufactured. Saint-Quentin was famous for its cloth during the Middle Ages. Of Roman origin, the city was chartered in 1080 and was the capital of the med... Read more
Champagne
Champagne , historic region and former province, NE France, consisting mainly of Aube, Marne, Haute-Marne, and Ardennes depts., which form that modern region of Champagne-Ardenne. The Champagne region is almost, but not fully, coextensive with the former provinces of Champagne and Brie. Abutting in ... Read more
World War I
World War I 1914-18, also known as the Great War, conflict, chiefly in Europe, among most of the great Western powers. It was the largest war the world had yet seen. Causes World War I was immediately precipitated by the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Aisne"

Aisne
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Aisne , department (1990 pop. 537,600), NE France, in Île-de-France , Picardy , and Champagne , touching the Belgian border. Laon is the capital.
Soissons
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Soissons , city (1990 pop. 32,144), Aisne dept., N France, on the Aisne River. It is an agricultural and industrial center. Soissons was an old Roman town and early episcopal see. Its strategic location has made it the scene of many...
Picardy
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Region and former province of n France, on the English Channel; it includes Somme, and parts of Pas-de-Calais, Oise and Aisne departments. It was a French province from 1477 until the French Revolution, when it was replaced by a smaller department...
Weygand, General Maxime
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...coast, came to nothing; the Dunkirk evacuation followed; soon after, his Weygand Line, which stretched along the Seine and Aisne rivers to the Maginot Line at Montmédy, was breached; and on 5 June he called on the politicians to arrange an armistice...
Jean de La Fontaine
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of Charles de La Fontaine and Fran ç oise Pidoux. Little is known about his youth in Ch â teau-Thierry (Aisne); he went to Paris in 1635, was associated briefly with the Oratorians, and then studied law. In 1647 he married Marie...
Condorcet, Marquis de
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, a descendant of the ancient family of Caritat, was born on September 17, 1743, at Ribemont, Aisne, in France. His father died early, and Condorcet ’ s devoutly Catholic mother ensured that he was educated at the...
Rethel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Rethel , town (1993 est. pop. 8,639), Ardennes dept., N France, on the Aisne River. It is a farm trade center with textile industries and plants making farm machinery. It was (13th cent.) the seat of...
Treaty of Vervins
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Treaty of Vervins , 1598, peace treaty signed at the small town of Vervins, Aisne dept., N France, by the representatives of Henry IV of France and Philip II of Spain. It ended the French Wars of Religion...
Valois
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Valois historic region, now comprised in Aisne and Oise depts., N France. Crépy-en-Valois was its historic capital. It is a rich agricultural area. A county...
Reims
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Reims City on the River Vesle, ne France; a port on the Aisne-Marne Canal. Clovis I was baptized and crowned here in 496, and it was the coronation place of later French kings. Reims is...

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Aisne-Marne Operation
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History AISNE-MARNE OPERATION AISNE-MARNE OPERATION, a French and American counteroffensive against...back behind the Vesle River, which they would not cross again. The Aisne-Marne Operation changed the complexion of the war. A German offensive...
Archiac, Étienne-Jules-Adolphe Desmier (or Dexmier) De Saint-Simon, Vicomte D’
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...After a childhood spent at Mesbrecourt, Aisne, d ’ Archiac entered the school...through which he had traveled in his youth: Aisne and Charente. From the beginning of his surveys in Aisne he undertook to make detailed sections and...
Château-Thierry Bridge, Americans at
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...France, on 31 May, having broken the French front on the Aisne River. The French general Ferdinand Foch, rushing troops...Scribners, 1943. Joseph Mills Hanson / a. r. See also Aisne-Marne Operation ; Belleau Wood, Battle of .
Brosse, Salomon de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...sober, and monumental than that of his immediate predecessors. Of his three châteaux at Blérancourt, Aisne (1611–19), Coulommiers-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne (1613), and Luxembourg, Paris (from 1614), only...
Cret, Paul Philippe
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...moving works in a simplified Classical idiom are his memorials to the dead of the 1914–18 war: a good example is the Aisne-Marne Memorial, near Château-Thierry, France (1926–33). Bibliography Grossman (1996); Hoak...
Somme Offensive
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Praeger, 1997. Cowley, Robert. 1918: Gamble for Victory: The Greatest Attack of World War I. New York: Macmillan, 1964. R. W. Daly Joseph Mills Hanson / a. r. See also Aisne-Marne Operation ; Champagne-Marne Operation .
Méchain, Pierre-François-André
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography M é CHAIN, PIERRE-FRAN ç OIS-ANDR é ( b . Laon, Aisne, France, 16 August 1744: d . Castell ò n de la Plana, Spain, 20 September 1804) geodesy, astronomy . M é...
Marne, Battles of the
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...offensive has been hailed as one of the decisive battles in history. The retreating Germans dug themselves in north of the River Aisne, setting the pattern for TRENCH WARFARE on the WESTERN FRONT . The second battle ended LUDENDORFF's final offensive, when...
Lhermitte, Léon
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Lhermitte, Léon ( b Mont-Saint-Père, Aisne, 31 July 1844; d Paris, 27 July 1925). French painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is best known for his pictures of...
Albert I of Monaco (Honoré Charles Grimaldi)
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...a member of the Acad é mie d ’ Agriculture (for the model farming practices on his property at Marchais, Aisne). BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Original Works. Between 1885 and 1915 Albert published numerous reports in the Comptes rendus de I...

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AISNE Accredits St. Stephen's Armenian Elementary School
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 8/9/2003; 336 words ; ...of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE) accepted the recommendation of the Membership...Steve Clem, the Executive Director of AISNE. St. Stephen's Armenian Elementary...school in New England to be accredited by AISNE. In their report, the AISNE visiting...
Spawning movements of European grayling Thymallus thymallus in the River Aisne (Belgium)
Magazine article from: Folia Zoologica; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...period (February to May) in the River Aisne, Belgium. Before the spawning period...movements of the European grayling in the River Aisne over three consecutive years in order to...environmental conditions. Study Area The River Aisne is a typical and relatively undisturbed...
Memorial to the men who paid for gallant stand with their lives ; At 11pm on May 27, 1918, in the pitch blackness of a moonless night, 866 German batteries opened up along a 20-mile front of the River Aisne in France.
Newspaper article from: Express & Echo (Exeter UK); 4/15/2008; ; 592 words ; ...German batteries opened up along a 20-mile front of the River Aisne in France. Every Allied battery position and every village...hill called Bois des Buttes, just a mile or two north of the Aisne. Only a handful of dazed and weary men, most of them wounded...
U.S. Participation on the Western Front, 1918 -- North America,United States,Netherlands,Belgium,Luxembourg,Germany,France,Switzerland,Strait of Dover,Lys Offensive,Somme Offensive,Aisne-Marne Offensi
Map from: Maps.com (Historical Maps); 1/1/2002; 181 words ; ...Netherlands,Belgium,Luxembourg,Germany,France,Switzerland,Strait of Dover,Lys Offensive,Somme Offensive,Aisne-Marne Offensive,Mese- Argonne,Second Battle of the Marne,St.Mihlel,Seicheprey,Lorraine,Vosges Mountains,Alsace...
Blown apart by France; Sam Ryall wets his whistle with a glass of the good stuff - but still finds time to sample a bit of French history!(Features)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 11/20/2001; 700+ words ; ...want. My destination was the picturesque Aisne departement, two hours south east of Calais...to Champagne drinkers, but the jewel in Aisne's crown is the medieval town of Laon...billed as "ze moste presteeguz" in Aisne. To the south, rising to a height of...
Tunnel Through Pyrenees Splits Residents on Both Sides
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 4/26/1994; 700+ words ; ...Pyrenees and a major trucking route in the Aisne Valley at the foot of the mountains on...mountain paradise. Lynn Terry visited the Aisne Valley and prepared this report. [flower and fauna in the Aisne Valley] LYNN TERRY, Reporter: The Valley...
Family affair in travel
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 10/11/1998; 487 words ; ...WHEN Aisne Williams decided to go back to school to...children with her. Cook Island-born Aisne was working in her hairdressing salon...check it out. "I love travelling," said Aisne. "The course was a chance to do something...
St. Stephen's Armenian Elementary School Students Ranked in Top 15% Nationwide
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 10/25/2003; 509 words ; ...Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE), the accrediting body for independent elementary...Armenian School in New England to be accredited by AISNE. In earning its accreditation from AISNE, St. Stephen's joins the academic ranks of...
Obituary: Jean Pierre-Bloch
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/26/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...elected in 1936, for the department of Aisne. He was born Jean-Pierre Bloch in Paris...an adjunct to the Mayor of Laon in the Aisne in 1933, where he built up a solid position...returned to the constituent assembly from the Aisne. He supported the bid of the Communist...
Getting to grips with the Great War; September 24, 1914
Newspaper article from: The Press; 9/24/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...were defending the line along the river Aisne, which would soon become part of the almost...The arrival of the opposing forces on the Aisne marks the effective end of the first phase...happen overnight but it began here on the Aisne, when the awesome power of defence, and...