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BERGERAC , a town of south
capital of an arrondissement in the department of Dordogne, on the right bank of the Dordogne, 6o m. E. of Bordeaux on the railway to Cahors. Pop. (1906) town, Io,545; commune, 15,623. The river is rendered navigable by a large dam and crossed by a fine bridge
quarter by the river, the town contains no monuments of antiquarian interest
district
chief
trade
grain , truffles, chestnuts, brandy and in the salmon of the Dordogne. The town has flour-mills, iron-works, tanneries, distilleries and nursery-gardens, and it has manufactures of casks and of vinegar. There are quarries of millstone in the vicinity. In the 16th century Bergerac was a very flourishing and populous place, but most of its inhabitants having embraced Calvinism it suffered greatly during the religious wars and by the revocation of the edict of Nantes (1685). It was in 1577 the scene of the signing of the sixth
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