Libourne, a town in the French department of Gironde, at the confluence of the Isle with the tidal Dordogne, 22 miles by rail NE. of Bordeaux. It is one of the ancient free towns founded by the English, about 1269. Woollens and military clothing are manufactured. Pop. (1872) 12,713; (1891) 14,245.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 605
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