Cassel

(kăs'sl,) a city of Pru ia, C. p. of Lower He e, on the Fulda, 89 m. N.N.E. of Frankfort-on-the-Main. It is one of the handsomest of German cities, and has in its vicinity the palace of Wilhelmshöhe, called, from its magnificence, the Versailles of Germany, and which was the residence allotted to the ex-emperor Napoléon III., after his capitulation at Sedan in 1870. Pop.41,587. [s. 151]