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Varennes

Varennes or Varennes-en-Argonne is a city in the French département of Meuse. Population (1999): 691.

It lies on the river Aire to the northeast of Sainte-Menehould, near Verdun.

Historians know the town as the scene of the flight to Varennes of 1791.


Varennes is also the name of other communes in France:

It is also part of the name of several communes in France:

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