Perpignan, a town on the Têt, 7 m. from the sea; a fortress in the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales; has a cathedral of the 14th century and a bourse in Moorish-Gothic, and manufactures wine and brandy; belonged originally to Aragon; was taken by France in 1475, and retaken, after restoration to Spain, in 1642, since which time it has belonged to France.
Population (circa 1900) given as 28,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Perowne, Stewart * Perrault, Charles