ROMORANTIN, an arrondissement of the department of the Loire and Cher in France, seven hundred and thirty square miles in extent. It comprehends six cantons, divided into forty-eight communes, containing, in 1836, 47,722 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name at the junction of the Romorantin and the Saudre, and has some beautiful promenades on the bank of the former river. It contains 1200 houses, with 7181 inhabitants, who manufacture to a considerable extent woolen cloth and tanned leather.
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