Compiègne, a quiet old town in the dep. of Oise, 50 m. NE. of Paris; has some fine old churches, but the chief edifice is the palace, built by St. Louis and rebuilt by Louis XIV., where the marriage of Napoleon to Maria Louisa was celebrated; here Joan of Arc was made prisoner in 1430, and Louis Napoleon had hunting ground.
Population (circa 1900) given as 14,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Comparetti * Compton, Henry