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Nogent-Le-Rotrou

a town of France, department of Eure-et-Loir; on the Huisne river; 93 miles S. W. of GENERAL NOGI Paris; is a well-built place, with the ruined château of the great Sully, his violated sepulcher, and a statue of General Saint-Pol, who fell before Sebastopol. The Germans here won two fights, on Nov. 21, 1870, and Jan. 6, 1871. Pop. about 8,000 The Germans here won two

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