The New Student's Reference Work/Amiens

Amiens (ä' mē-ăn ' ), a manufacturing city of, formerly the most important in Picardy. It possesses a venerable and famous cathedral. Population, 93,207. The well-known treaty of Amiens, which ended a war that had lasted ten years, was made by with France,  and  in 1802. gave up all of its conquests of the war, except and. France gave up, and Egypt was restored to. In the Franco-German War, Amiens fell for a time into the hands of the (November 1870), while the latter gained a great victory over the French Army of the Loire.