CHARENTON-LE-PONT, a town of northern France in the department of Seine, situated on the right bank of the Marne, at its confluence with the Seine. Pop. (1931) 20,529. Le Pont refers to the stone bridge of ten arches which crosses the Marne and unites the town with Alfortville, well known for its veterinary school founded in 1766. In the i6th and 17th centuries Charenton was the scene of the ecclesiastical councils of the Protestant party, which had its principal church in the town. At the neighbouring St. Maurice is the well known Hospice de Charenton. Charenton has a port on the Canal de St. Maurice, beside the Marne, and carries on boat-building and the manufacture of tiles and porce lain.