TROYES, trwii. The capital of the Depart ment of Aube, France, on the left bank of the Seine, 104 miles by rail cast-southeast of Paris (Map: France, K 3). tt presents a quaint. mediaeval appearance, most of the houses being of the timbered kind. The fine Cathedral of Saint Pierre (thirteenth to sixteenth century), with a splendid rose window, is in the Flamboyant style. The small Church of Saint Urbain, founded by Pope Urban IV., is a charming example of the thirteenth-century Gothic. La Madeleine has a superb rood screen. Saint Jean (fourteenth to sixteenth century) is noteworthy for its stained glass and its two paintings by Mignard. Saint Nicolas and Saint Pantaloon are both in the Gothic style of the sixteenth century. In the old Abbey of Saint Lupus are the public library ( 110,000 volumes and 2800 manuscripts) and an interesting museum. The monument to the chil dren of Aube, in commemoration of the Franco German War, was erected in 1900. The chief in
dustry is the manufacture of cotton and woolen stockings. There is a school of hosiery. The Seine is canalized here and divides into several arms in the city. Population, in 1901, 53,146.
The capital of the Celtic Trirasses, Troyes was the Roman Augustobona (later Treece). The town was the capital of the counts of Cham pagne, and early rose to importance as a centre of trade. The treaty of 1420, which provided for the succession of Henry V. of England to the French throne, was signed here. Jeanne d'Arc took the town in 1429, and a century later it was partly destroyed by Charles V. The revoca tion of the Edict of Nantes reduced the popula tion, which was largely Protestant, to less than one-fourth of its former numbers. Consult Bou tiot, Histoire de la rifle de Troyes (Paris, 1870 80).