Meaux

Meaux

France
 town, Seine-et-Marne département, Île-de-France région, northern France, east-northeast of Paris. Situated in a loop of the Marne River in an intensively cultivated region, it has been an agricultural market centre since medieval times. The most outstanding building, Saint-Étienne Cathedral (12th to 16th century), has a Flamboyant Gothic facade, which has suffered from crumbling. The cathedral contains the tomb and two statues of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, a 17th-century French writer and religious orator. The former episcopal palace (12th to 17th century) houses a Bossuet museum.

      First called Latinum by the Romans, later Meldi, the name of a Gaulish tribe, Meaux became an episcopal see in the 4th century. From 923 to 1361 it belonged to the counts of Champagne. Meaux was the first diocese in France to shelter Protestant Reformers during the Wars of Religion in the late 16th century and was much fought over. It was the scene of some of the massacres of Huguenots (French Protestants) on St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. Meaux is an administrative and commercial centre and has a range of industries including metallurgy, food processing, and electronics manufacturing. Pop. (1999) 49,421; (2005 est.) 49,200.

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