Luçon, an episcopal town of 6301 inhabitants in the south of La Vendée, on the railway from Nantes to Bordeaux, and on the canal of Luçon. Richelieu was Bishop of Luçon; and many battles were fought here in 1792-97.
Luçon
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 739
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