St. Quentin, a manufacturing town of France, on the Somme, 95 m. NE. of Paris; manufactures all kinds of cotton and woollen goods, machinery, paper, &c.; has a fine old Gothic church and town-hall; here the French were routed by the Spaniards in 1557, and by the Germans in 1871.
Population (circa 1900) given as 48,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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