Clermont Ferrand, the ancient capital of Auvergne and chief town of the dep. Puy-de-Dôme; the birthplace of Pascal, Gregory of Tours, and Dessaix, and where, in 1095, Pope Urban II. convoked a council and decided on the first Crusade; it has been the scene of seven Church Councils.
Population (circa 1900) given as 45,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Clermont, Robert, Comte de * Clermont-Tonnerre