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Montreuil

 
Dictionary: Mon·treuil   (môN-trœ') pronunciation


A town of north-central France, an industrial suburb of Paris. Population: 99,900.

 

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Montreuil (môNtrö'), town (1990 pop. 95,038), Seine-Saint-Denis dept., N central France, a suburb of Paris. Long famous for its peaches and pears, Montreuil has a variety of light industries. It was founded before A.D. 1000. In the center of the town is the Church of SS. Peter and Paul (12th cent.), where Charles V was baptized. A nearby public park has a museum dedicated to the Socialist and workers' movements.


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Montreuil is the name or part of the name of several communes of France:

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  • Montreuil Abbey, a Cistercian nunnery in Picardy, formerly known as Montreuil-les-Dames or Montreuil-en-Thiérache, later as Montreuil-sous-Laon, in the Aisne département

 
 
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