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CLUNY

Volume 7 · 71 words · 1860 Edition

Clugny, a town of France, department of Seine-et-Loire, on the left bank of the Grône, here crossed by a stone bridge, 12 miles N.W. of Mâcon. Pop. 4000. Its celebrated Benedictine abbey, of which the church was 656 feet long by 130 wide, was almost totally destroyed during the revolution of 1789. Cluny has manufactures of woollens, linens, paper, earthenware, and gloves; and a trade in corn, wine, timber, and cattle.