Bordeaux

Bordeaux, a great industrial and commercial city, and chief seat of the wine trade in France and the third seaport on the Garonne; cap. of the dep. of Gironde; the birthplace of Rosa Bonheur and Richard II., his father, the Black Prince, having had his seat here as governor of Aquitaine. There are sugar-refineries, potteries, foundries, glass and chemical works. The cod-fishing industry has its base here. A cathedral dates from the 11th century. There are schools of science, art, theology, medicine, and navigation, a library, museum, and rich picture-gallery.

Population (circa 1900) given as 256,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Borda * Border Minstrel
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Boone, Daniel
Boötes
Booth, Barton
Booth, John Wilkes
Booth, William
Boothia
Booton
Bopp, Franz
Bora, Katharina
Borda
Bordeaux
Border Minstrel
Borders, the
Bordone
Bore
Boreas
Borghese
Borghesi, Count
Borgia, Cæsar
Borgia, Franceso
Borgia, Lucretia

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