Northern France : from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs : handbook for travellers . gne (PI. 6, 8) to the PorteMadeleine (PI. A, 3). Post & Telegraph Office (PI. E. 4), Rue de Bourgogne 187. Baths. Bains du Chdtelet, Rue Charles Sanglier 4. Orleans, on the right hank of the Loire, the ancient capital ofthe Orleanais and now the chief town of the Departement du Loiret,the seat of a bishop, and the headquarters of the Vth Army Corps, isa large and well-built but dull town, with a population of 66,700. Orleans occupies the site of the Gallic town of C
Northern France : from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs : handbook for travellers . gne (PI. 6, 8) to the PorteMadeleine (PI. A, 3). Post & Telegraph Office (PI. E. 4), Rue de Bourgogne 187. Baths. Bains du Chdtelet, Rue Charles Sanglier 4. Orleans, on the right hank of the Loire, the ancient capital ofthe Orleanais and now the chief town of the Departement du Loiret,the seat of a bishop, and the headquarters of the Vth Army Corps, isa large and well-built but dull town, with a population of 66,700. Orleans occupies the site of the Gallic town of Cenabum or and burned by Ca sar in 52 in revenge for a massacre ofRoman merchants here by the Carnutes. The town was afterwards rebuiltby the Emperor Aurelian, who named it Aurelianum, whence the modernname is derived. The position of Orleans as the key to Central and has always given it great strategic importance, and it has fre-quently been besieged. In 451 St. Aignan, then bishop, delivered it fromthe attack of Attila, but Clovis took it in 498. After the death of Clovis TtruTB, ^ ft; ^^^^ .J- ;^. , J,. ^.*> ^-Uq ? M : ::<.
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