Marne

[ mahrn; French marn ]

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noun

a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
a department in N France. 3,168 sq. mi. (8,205 sq. km). : Châlons-sur-Marne.

Marne

/ marn /

a department of NE France, in Champagne-Ardenne region. Capital: Châlons-sur-Marne. Pop: 563 027 (2003 est). Area: 8205 sq km (3200 sq miles)
a river in NE France, rising on the plateau of Langres and flowing north, then west to the River Seine, north of Paris: linked by canal with the Rivers Saône, Rhine, and Aisne; scene of two unsuccessful German offensives (1914, 1918) during World War I. Length: 525 km (326 miles)

Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”

The six-and-a-half-foot bronze sculpture was approved in 2011 by the town council of Nogent-sur-Marne.

The plans to build a statue honoring Italian workers has created an uproar in the town of Nogent-sur-Marne, a suburb of Paris.

Last year Facebook poached Marne Levine, a White House economic adviser, to help run its global public policy efforts.

His lands reached from the department of Seine-et-Marne into that of the Aube.

It is pleasantly situated in the valley of a little stream, the Morbra, which flows into the Marne.

The distance from Nancy to Chalons on the Marne is 108 miles.

Hindenburg's great drive was expended, the Germans had been thrown back across the Marne.

For the champagne was a good ally of ours during the battle of the Marne.

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