Bergerac, a manufacturing town in France, 60 m. E. of Bordeaux, celebrated for its wines; it was a Huguenot centre, and suffered greatly in consequence.
Population (circa 1900) given as 11,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ber`genroth, Gustav Adolph * Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano de