Aigues-Mortes (Aquæ Mortuæ), a small town in France (pop. about 3800) in the department of Gard. It is situated in an extensive salt-marsh, and is about 3 miles from the Mediterranean, with which it is connected by a canal. In the middle ages, when the sea came much nearer the town, it was a very important Mediterranean harbour. It was from Aigues-Mortes that St Louis sailed in 1248, and again in 1270, for the Crusades.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 108
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