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Varennes-en-Argonne

Varennes-en-Argonne or Varennes is a city in the French departement 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.

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