Meaux
a town of the department of Seine-et-Marne, France, on the right bank of the river Marne, about 30 miles E. of Paris. It has a large trade in Brie cheese and other agricultural products; important meal and corn mills; manufactures of cotton, lumber, machinery, sugar, and steel. In September, 1914, it became famous as the turning point of the German drive on Paris. It was here that the German advance was stopped and that the German retreat to the Aisne began. Pop. about 14,000.