Condom, a town in the French department of Gers, pleasantly situated on a height above the confluence of the Baise and the Gèle, 20 miles SW. of Agen by rail. It has one fine church, once a cathedral; and was formerly the capital of the extensive Gascon district of Condomois, now included in the departments of Landes and Lot-et-Garonne. Bossuet was Bishop of Condom for a year (1669). Pop. 5070.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 404
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