Gironde, a maritime department in SW. France, facing the Bay of Biscay on the W. and lying N. and S. between Charente-Inférieure and Landes; the Garonne and the Dordogne flowing through it form the Gironde estuary, and with their tributaries sufficiently water the undulating land; agriculture and some manufactories flourish, but wine is the chief product.
Population (circa 1900) given as 794,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Girardin, François Saint-Marc * Girondins