Auray, a port in the French department of Morbihan, 20 miles E. of Lorient by rail, with some trade. Pop. 5500. Here is a large deaf and dumb institute; and 2 miles north is the famous place of pilgrimage of St Anne of Auray, with a fine church completed in 1877.
Auray
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 579
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