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Indre
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Indre , department (1990 pop. 237,300), central France, in parts of Berry, Orléanais, Marche, Touraine, and Poitou. Châteauroux is the capital.
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Indre-et-Loire
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Indre-et-Loire , department (1990 pop. 532,100), N central France. It occupies most of Touraine , and Tours is its capital.
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Azay-le-Rideau
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Azay-le-Rideau , village (1993 est. pop. 3,116), Indre-et-Loire dept., N central France, in Touraine. It is...acirc;teau (1518-29), set in a beautiful park on the Indre River, now houses a museum of Renaissance furniture and art...
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Loches
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Loches , town (1990 pop. 7,133), Indre-et-Loire dept., W central France, in Touraine, on the Indre River. Products include processed food and electronics. It is famous for its medieval buildings, especially the ancient châ...
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Châteauroux
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Châteauroux , city (1990 pop. 52,949), capital of Indre dept., central France, on the Indre River. It has textile, metal, pharmaceutical, and food-processing industries. Châteauroux...
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Amboise
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Amboise , town (1991 pop. 10,972), Indre-et-Loire dept., N central France, in Touraine, on the Loire. It is a wine and wool market, and its manufactures include...
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Touraine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...centering around Tours (the historic capital) and drained by the Loire, Cher, and Vienne rivers. Roughly coextensive with Indre-et-Loire dept., Touraine, with its fertile valleys, orchards, and vineyards, is known as the "garden of France...
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Tours
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tours , city (1990 pop. 133,403), capital of Indre-et-Loire dept., W central France, in Touraine, on the Loire River. It is a wine market and a tourist center, with metallurgical...
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Chenonceaux
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Chenonceaux , village, Indre-et-Loire dept., W central France, in Touraine, on the Cher River. It is famous for its château (built 1515...
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Vicomte de Lesseps
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Lesseps had become senile and perhaps never realized he had been tried. He died on Dec. 7, 1894, at La Ch â naie (Indre), France. Further Reading Writings on Lesseps are numerous. Charles Robert Longfield Beatty, De Lesseps of Suez: The Man...
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