Rouergue, an old province of southern France, between Languedoc, Auvergne, and Guienne, ruled by counts until 1589, when it passed to the crown. See FRANCE, Vol. IV. p. 770.
Rouergue
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 824
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