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BRIVE

Volume 5 · 64 words · 1842 Edition

an arrondissement of the department of the Corrèze in France, four hundred and six square miles in extent, and comprehending ten cantons and a hundred and one communes, with 93,858 inhabitants. The capital, Brive la Gaillarde, is on the left side of the Corrèze, on a beautiful plain, with a population of 5762 persons, employed chiefly in manufacturing muslins and other fine cotton goods.