Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Varennes or Varennes-en-Argonne is a city in the French département of Meuse. Population (1999): 691. It lies on the river Aire to the northeast of Sainte-Menehould, near Verdun. Historians know the town as the scene of the flight to Varennes of 1791. Varennes is also the name of other communes in France: Varennes, in the Dordogne département Varennes, in the Haute-Garonne département Varennes, in the Indre-et-Loire département Varennes, in the Somme département Varennes, in the Tarn-et-Garonne département Varennes, in the Vienne département Varennes, in the Yonne département This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.