Montceau-Les-Mines
a town of France in the department of Saone-et- MONTDIDIER Loire. It is the center of an important coal-mining region and has iron works, machine shops, and textile factories, etc.
Pop. about 27,000.
MONT CENIS (mông suh-nē'), or MONTE CENISIO (mon'te chā-ne'sē-ō), an Alpine peak and pass between Savoy and Piedmont; height of the mountain, 11,792 feet; of the pass, 6,884 feet. Over the pass a road was constructed (1802- 1810), under Napoleon's orders. Thirteen 7½ miles long, was begun in 1857 on the miles W. of the pass a railroad tunnel, Italian side, and in 1863 on the French, finished in 1870 at a cost of $15,000,000.