St-Dié, a town of the French department of Vosges, stands on the Meurthe, 50 miles by rail SE. of Nancy, possesses a Romanesque-Gothic cathedral, a large seminary, and a museum, and carries on energetically the weaving of cotton, the making of hosiery, paper, machinery, and iron goods. It is a convenient point from which to make excursions into the Vosges Mountains. Pop. (1872) 9748; (1886) 14,047.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 83
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