Beaucaire, a French town near Avignon, on the Rhône, which it spans with a magnificent bridge; once a great centre of trade, and famous, as it still is, for its annual fair, frequented by merchants from all parts of Europe.
Population (circa 1900) given as 8,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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