Seine-et-Oise, a department of NW. France, encloses the department of Seine; grain is grown in well-cultivated plains and the vine on pleasant hill slopes; is intersected by several tributaries of the Seine, and the N. is prettily wooded. Versailles is the capital; Sèvres and St. Cloud are other interesting places.
Population (circa 1900) given as 628,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Seine-et-Marne * Seine-Inférieure