Boulogne

(Bois de,) (bōō-lōn',) a well-known wood adjoining the walls of the French capital. It was devastated during the two sieges of Paris, 1870-71. Boulogne-sur-Mer, [anc. Gesoriacum,] a fortified seaport and handsome town of France, dep. Pas-deCal a is, on the English Channel, at the mouth of the Lianne, 139 m. N.N.W. of Paris, and19 S.W. of Calais. Steamers make the pa age to Dover in 32 hours. Here, 1804, Napoléon I. collected a large armament for the fruitle purpose of invading England. Pop. 40,251. [s. 109]