Arcis-Sur-Aube, a town of France, in Champagne, department of Aube, 16 m. X. by E. of Troves; pop. in 1866, 2,820. It contains cotton and spinning manufactories and manufactories of cotton hosiery, and is an entrepot for iron and for the wooden wares made in the Vosges. Near this town, March 20 and 21, ! 1814, Napoleon fought the allied army under Schwartzenberg, before whose overwhelming numbers he was compelled to retreat on the sec- ond day, though rather successful on the first.