Maine-et-Loire, a department of France, formed out of the old province of Anjou, and watered by the rivers whose names it bears, is divided into the arrondissements of Angers, Beaugé, Cholet, Saumur, and Segré. Area, 2749 sq. m.; pop. (1872) 518,471; (1886) 527,680; (1891) 513,815. The soil is fertile, and produces excellent corn and wine, with hemp, linseed, fruit, and green crops. Slate-quarries and coal-mines are worked; and there are mills for cotton, woolen, and linen manufactures. Capital, Angers.
Maine-et-Loire
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 812
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