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SALERS

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 66 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SALERS  , a

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village of central France, in the department of
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Cantal, 30 M . N. of
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Aurillac by road . Pop . (1906), 659 . Salers
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dates from the 9th or loth century and its lords were already powerful in the 11th century . It is finely situated on a plateau overlooking the valley of the Maronne . It is a quaint old
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town with a church of the 13th and 15th centuries, remains of its ancient ramparts and many houses of the 15th and 16th centuries . Salers has given its name to a celebrated breed of red cattle raised in the
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district .

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