Troyes

(trwaw',) a manuf. city of France, C. dept. Aube, on the Seine, 88 m. E.S.E. of Paris. This was the chief town of the former p. of Champagne, and was the scene of heavy fighting between the French and Pru ians in 1814, and between the French and Germans in 1870. Pop. 35,678. [s. 909]