BERGERAC  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-western See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of an See also:

• ARRONDISSEMENT (from arrondir, to make round)

arrondissement in the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• DORDOGNE

Dordogne, on the right See also:

• BANK

bank of the Dordogne, 6o m . E. of See also:

• BORDEAUX

Bordeaux on the railway to See also:

• CAHORS

Cahors . Pop . (1906) town, Io,545; See also:

• COMMUNE (Med. Lat. communia, Lat. communis, common)
• COMMUNE, MEDIEVAL

commune, 15,623 . The See also:

• RIVER

river is rendered navigable by a large See also:

• DAM

dam and crossed by a See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge which leads to the suburb of La Madeleine . Apart from a few old houses in the older See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter by the river, the town contains no monuments of antiquarian See also:

• INTEREST

interest . There is a handsome See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church built in the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Bergerac is the seat of a sub-See also:

• PREFECT (prefet)

prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce and a communal See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college . See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

Wine of fine quality is grown in the See also:

• DISTRICT

district and is the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief source of the commerce of the town, which is mainly carried on with See also:

• LIBOURNE

Libourne and Bordeaux . There is See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, truffles, chestnuts, See also:

• BRANDY

brandy and in the See also:

• SALMON
• SALMON, GEORGE (1819-1904)

salmon of the Dordogne . The town has See also:

• FLOUR

flour-See also:

• MILLS, JOHN (d. 1736)
• MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832– )

mills, See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron-See also:

• WORKS

works, tanneries, distilleries and nursery-gardens, and it has manufactures of casks and of See also:

• VINEGAR

vinegar . There are quarries of millstone in the vicinity .

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

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, but most of its inhabitants having embraced Calvinism it suffered greatly during the religious See also:

• WARS

wars and by the revocation of the See also:

• EDICT (Lat. edictum, from e, out, and dicere, to say, speak)

edict of See also:

• NANTES
• NANTES, EDICT OF

Nantes (1685) . It was in 1577 the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of the See also:

• SIGNING

signing of the See also:

• SIXTH

sixth See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace between the Catholics and Protestants . Its fortifications and citadel were demolished by See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XIII. in 1621 .