L'Orient, a seaport in Morbihan; contains the principal shipbuilding yard in France; was founded by the French East India Company in 1664 in connection with their trade in the East.
Population (circa 1900) given as 41,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Loretto * Lorne, Marquis of