Cantal, a department in the interior of Southern France, formed out of the south portion of the old province of Auvergne. It has an area of 2090 sq. m., and a population in 1891 of 239,601. Sce AUVERGNE.
Cantal
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 725
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