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	PUY-DE-DOME - LoveToKnow Article on PUY-DE-DOME
		The drainage of Puy-de-DOme is divided between the Loire, by its affluents the Allier and the Cher, and the Gironde, by the Dordogne.
		The Puy de Sancy, forming part of the watershed, gives rise on its northern slope to the Dordogne, and on the east to the Couze, a sub-tributary of the Loire, through the Allier.
		The Moats Dore are joined to the mountains of Cantal by the non-volcanic group of the Czallier, of which the highest peak, the Luguet (5102 ft.), rises on the confines of Puyde-DOme and Cantal.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PU/PUY_DE_DOME.htm

	COUNTS AND DUKES OF MONTPENSIER - LoveToKnow Article on COUNTS AND DUKES OF MONTPENSIER
		The French lordship of Montpensier (department of Puy-de-Dme), which became a countship in the 14th century, was sold in 1384 by Bernard and Robert de Ventadour to John, duke of Berry, whose daughter Marie brought the countship to her husband, John I., duke of Bourbon, in 1400.
		Confiscated by King Francis I., the countship was restored in 1538 to Louise de Bourbon, sister of the constable, and widow of the prince de La Roche-sur-Yon, and to her son Louis (I5 131582), and was erected into a duchy in the peerage of France (duche-pairie) in 1539.
		The countship was subsequently held by Louis de Bourbon, younger son of Duke John, and by his descendants up to Charles de Bourbon-Montpensier, the famous constable, who became duke of Bourbon by his marriage with his cousin, Suzanne de Bourbon, in 1505.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MONTPENSIER_COUNTS_AND_DUKES_OF.htm

	DORDOGNE - LoveToKnow Article on DORDOGNE
		, a river of central and south-western France, rising at a height of 5640 ft. on the Puy-de-Sancy, a mountain of the department of Puy-de-Dme, and flowing to the Garonne with which it unites at Bec dAmbs to form the Gironde estuary.
		Below the town of Bergerac it enters the department of Gironde, where at Libourne it is joined by the Isle and widens cut, attaining at its union with the Garonne 45 m.
		The Dordogne is the principal river of the department and its chief affluent is the Isle, which crosses the centre of the department and flows into the Dordogneat Libourne,in the neighboring department of Gironde.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DO/DORDOGNE.htm (875 words)

	HAUTE-LOIRE - LoveToKnow Article on HAUTE-LOIRE
		The chief affluents of the Loire within the limits of the department are the Borne on the left, joining it near Le Puy, and the Lignon, which descends from the Mzenc, between the BoutiCres and Mgal ranges, on the right.
		It is hounded N. by Puy-de-Dme and Loire, E. by Loire and ArdCche, S. by Ardche and LozCre and W. by Lozre and Cantal.
		The climate, owing to the altitude, the northward direction of the valleys, and the winds from the Cvennes, is cold, the winters being long and rigorous.
	40.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HAUTE_LOIRE.htm (591 words)

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