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 | | St Lizier, in ancient times one of the twelve cities of Novempopulania under the name of Lugdunum Consoranorum, was later capital of the Couserans and seat of a bishopric (sup-pressed at the Revolution) to the holders of which the town belonged. |
 | | St L6 is the seat of a prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a training college for masters, a school of drawing, a branch of the Bank of France, a chamber of arts and manufactures, and a government stud. |
 | | The population of St Louis in 1840 was '6,469; in r85o it was 77,86o (seventh in size of the cities of the country); in 186o, x60,773; in 1870, 3'0,864 (third in size); in 188o, 350,518; in 1890, 451,770; in 1900, 575,238; and in 1910, 687,029. |
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