Bellegarde, a second-class fortress of France, in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, built by Louis XIV. in 1679. It is situated on the Spanish confines on the road leading over the Col de Pertuis from Perpignan to Figueras.
Bellegarde
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 61
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