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Lorient

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Lorient , town (1990 pop. 61,630), Morbihan dept., NW France, a port and naval station on the Atlantic Ocean. A great shipbuilding center, Lorient also produces textiles, furniture, and navigational equipment. Established (17th cent.) as a port to serve the French East India Company, it was developed as a naval base by Napoleon I and became the country's chief naval yard. In World War II it was the Germans' major submarine base on the Atlantic. Almost totally destroyed by Allied bombs in 1942-43, it has been rebuilt.

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Lorient

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Lorient, Brittany/France Blavet, Port‐Louis, L'Orient A port renamed in the early 17th century after Louis XIII (1601–43), King of France (1610–43). When his successor, Louis XIV the Sun King^†, allowed a trading company, Compagnie de l'Orient ‘(the French) East (India) Company’, to operate from here in 1664 it was renamed L'Orient ‘The East’.

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