The New International Encyclopædia/Saint-Ouen

SAINT-OUEN, săN′to͞o′äN′. A suburb of Paris on the right bank of the Seine, one mile north of the city walls (Map: Paris and Vicinity). It has a famous race course in the former park of the Château of Saint-Ouen, where Louis XVIII., in May, 1814, signed the famous declaration promising a charter to France. Saint-Ouen has educational institutions, and is important for its manufactures of firearms, glass, sugar, perfumery, india-rubber, tinned foods, and varnish. There are extensive docks along the Seine. Population, in 1901, 35,436.