1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
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 Roman aqueduct, the Arcus Juliani (Arculi), some traces of which still remain. In 1613-1624 a bridgeaqueduct over 1300 ft. long was constructed to convey water from the spring of Rungis some 4 m. south of Arcueil, across the Bievre to the Luxembourg palace in Pa…
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