Bergerac

Bergerac, a town in the French department of Dordogne, on the Dordogne, 60 miles E. of Bordeaux by rail. Most of its inhabitants are employed in the surrounding ironworks and paper-mills. The wines of the district, both white and red, are esteemed. During the wars with the English, Bergerac was a fortress and an entrepôt of trade; but after siding with the Calvinists, and consequently suffering greatly in the religious wars, the place was dismantled by Louis XIII. in 1621, whilst the revocation of the Edict of Nantes drove many of its citizens into exile. Pop. (1891) 12,485.