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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 773 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERGERAC , a See also:

town of See also:south-western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Dordogne, on the right See also:bank of the Dordogne, 6o m. E. of See also:Bordeaux on the railway to See also:Cahors. Pop. (1906) town, Io,545; See also:commune, 15,623. The See also:river is rendered navigable by a large See also:dam and crossed by a See also:fine See also:bridge which leads to the suburb of La Madeleine. Apart from a few old houses in the older See also:quarter by the river, the town contains no monuments of antiquarian See also:interest. There is a handsome See also:modern See also:church built in the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century. Bergerac is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce and a communal See also:college. See also:Wine of fine quality is grown in the See also:district and is the See also:chief source of the commerce of the town, which is mainly carried on with See also:Libourne and Bordeaux. There is See also:trade in See also:grain, truffles, chestnuts, See also:brandy and in the See also:salmon of the Dordogne. The town has See also:flour-See also:mills, See also:iron-See also:works, tanneries, distilleries and nursery-gardens, and it has manufactures of casks and of See also:vinegar. There are quarries of millstone in the vicinity.

In the 16th century Bergerac was a very flourishing and populous See also:

place, but most of its inhabitants having embraced Calvinism it suffered greatly during the religious See also:wars and by the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes (1685). It was in 1577 the See also:scene of the See also:signing of the See also:sixth See also:peace between the Catholics and Protestants. Its fortifications and citadel were demolished by See also:Louis XIII. in 1621.

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