Pézenas, a town of France (dept. Hérault), on the left bank of the river Hérault, 32 miles by rail SW. of Montpellier. The vicinity produces excellent wine, and woollen and linen goods are manufactured. Pézenas is one of the principal brandy-markets of Europe. Here Molière wrote Les Précieuses Ridicules. Pop. 6538.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 103
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