Issoire (anc. Issiodorum), a town in the French department of Puy-de-Dôme, near the confluence of the Couze and Allier, 21 miles by rail SE. of Clermont-Ferrand. Pop. 6051. The town and its people were treated with savage fury by both parties during the religious wars after the Reformation (1574-77).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 238
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