Gard, a dep. in the S. of France, between the Cévennes and the Rhône; slopes to the Rhône and the sea, with a marshy coast; produces wine and olives, and is noted for its silkculture and breed of horses.
Population (circa 1900) given as 419,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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