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Volume 3 · 64 words · 1823 Edition

a small town of France, in the province of La Marche, and the government of the Lyonnais, now the department of Creuse. Its situation is very irregular, on the river Creuse, in a bottom surrounded with rocks and mountains. A manufacture of tapestry is carried on here, and the town contained a population of 3520 souls in 1815. E. Long. 2.15. N. Lat. 45.58.