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BEAUCAIRE

Volume 4 · 58 words · 1842 Edition

a small but populous town of France, in the department of Gard, on the Rhone, opposite Tarascon, with which it has a communication by a bridge of boats. It is chiefly remarkable for its great annual fair, which in former times was famous over Europe, but has now considerably declined. Long. 4. 43. E. Lat. 43. 48. N.