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ARCUEIL, a town of northern France, in the department of Seine, on the Bievre, 2} m. N.E. of Sceaux on the railway from Paris to Limours. Pop. (1906) 8660. The town has an interesting church dating from the ijth to the 1510 century. It takes its name from a Ro ...

ARCULF, a Gallican bishop and pilgrim-traveller, who visited the Levant about 680, and was the earliest Christian traveller and observer of any importance in the Nearer East after the rise of Islam. On his return he was driven by contrary winds to Britain, and

... tion on the line of railway from Madras to Beypur, but has ceased to be ARCTIC— ARCUEIL a military cantonment. The most famous episode in its history ii the capture and defence of Arcot by Clive. In the middle of the iSth it-iitury, during the war between the ...