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MEUDON , a See also:town of See also:northern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise, 6 m. E. of See also:Versailles by See also:rail and about 21 M. S.W. of See also:Paris. Pop. (1906), 9597. The remains of a See also:castle (17th See also:century) burned during the See also:siege of Paris in 1871 have since been adapted as an See also:observatory. Its See also:terrace commands a See also:fine view of Paris. The handsome Galliera Institutions, on the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill of See also:Fleury, were founded by the duchess of Galliera for the reception of aged persons and orphans. The buildings were completed in 1885, at a cost of £56o,000. The town has a See also:monument of See also:Rabelais, who was cure there in 1553, and manufactures munitions of See also:war for the See also:artillery, and in the neighbouring See also:park of Chalais is the See also:Government military ballooning See also:establishment. In the 16th century the See also:cardinal, See also:Charles of See also:Lorraine, built at Meudon a magnificent See also:chateau, which was destroyed in 1803. The See also:present remains belong to a See also:building erected by the dauphin, son of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. The See also:wood of Meudon lies for the most See also:part to the See also:west of the town.
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