Aube is a French department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France. As with sixty departments in France, this department is named after a river: the Aube. With 310,242 inhabitants, Aube is the 74th department in terms of population. The inhabitants of the department are known as Aubois or Auboises.
The department was constituted by a decree of the National Assembly of 15 January 1790. From Wikipedia
