Ferrieres, a village of France, in the de-partment of Seine-et-Marne, 15 m. E. of Paris; pop. about 800. In the 17th century it was a marquisate, afterward belonged to Fouche, and was finally purchased by Baron Rothschild, for whom the English architect Paxton built here one of the most magnificent chateaux in France, in the style of the last period of Italian renais-sance. From Sept. 19 to Oct. 5, 1870, it was the headquarters of King William of Prussia. An interview between Jules Favre and Bismarck took place there immediately after the arrival of the king.