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Encyclopedia Britannica



MONTEREAU

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 773 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MONTEREAU , a town of northern France, in the department of Seine-et-
Marne
  at the confluence of the
Yonne
  with the Seine, 21 M. S.E. of Melun by rail. Pop. (1906), 7870. The
church
 
dates
  from the 13th century, with a facade of the Renaissance period. The
industries
  include the manufacture of
porcelain
 , fire-proof and decorative bricks, boots and shoes and agricultural machines and colours, varnish, &c. Among the institutions are a tribunal of commerce and a chamber of arts and manufactures.
Montereau was in the beginning of the 15th century a place of some importance. Here, on the
bridge
  over the
Yonne
 ,
Jean
  Sans-Peur, duke of
Burgundy
  was assassinated in the presence of the Dauphin, afterwards Charles VII., in 1419. In 1438 the town was captured by Charles VII., and during the wars of religion it was several times taken and retaken. In 1814
Napoleon
  gained a victory at Montereau over the Wurttemberg troops under .Schwarzenberg, and in memory of this his statue has been erected on the
bridge
 .


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