Issy

Issy, a village ½ m. SW. of Paris, where Davout was defeated by Blücher on 3rd July 1815, and which suffered severely during the siege of Paris by the Germans in 1870-71.

Population (circa 1900) given as 12,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)