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St. Cyr
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
A French village, 2 m. W. of Versailles, where Louis XIV., at the request of Madame de Maintenon, founded an institution for the education of girls of noble birth but poor, which was suppressed at the time of the Revolution, and afterwards converted into a military school by Napoleon.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'St. Cyr'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​s/st-cyr.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.