Périgueux, chief town of the department of Dordogne, France, on the Isle, 95 m. by rail NE. of Bordeaux, is a narrow irregular town with a cathedral after St. Mark's in Venice, museum of antiquities, and library; iron and woollens are the industries; truffles and truffle pies are exported.
Population (circa 1900) given as 31,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Périgord * Perihelion