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Chantilly

(shän-te-ye'), a town of France in the department of the Oise, 25 miles N. N. E. of Paris, celebrated for a variety of lace made here and in the neighborhood; for the splendid château, built by the great Condé, but levrevolution; and also for another palace built by the Duc d'Aumale after the estate came into his possession in 1850, which, along with the fine domain, was presented by the duke to the French Institute in 1887. It is a horse-racing center . Pop. about 7,500.

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