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Overview:
Chaumont, France, Chaumont also called
CHAUMONT-EN-BASSIGNY, town, capital of Haute-Marne department,
Champagne-Ardenne region, eastern France, southeast of Paris.
Situated on the edge of a plateau at the confluence of the Marne
and the Suize rivers in the upper Marne valley, it was
originally called Calvus Mons (Bald Mountain) and was built
around a 10th-century castle. At first a stronghold of the
counts of Bassigny, it was the residence of the counts of
Champagne for a century until 1329, when it became attached to
the crown. Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia concluded
a treaty at Chaumont in 1814, binding themselves to prosecute
the Napoleonic War until final victory. The Church of
Saint-Jean-Baptiste was built between the 13th and the 16th
century. Chaumont is on the main road and railway from Paris to
Basel (Switzerland). Its chief industries are glove making and
the manufacture of footwear. Pop. (1982) 26,203 in Chaumont.
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