Beauce, (1) a district of France, partly in the departments of Loir-et-Cher and Eure-et-Loire, of which the capital is Chartres. It contains some of the finest corn-land in France, and in early summer shows an almost uninterrupted plain of waving corn.—(2) Also a south-eastern county of the province of Quebec, Canada.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 823
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