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Cahors

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Cahors

French town, capital of the département of Lot, 100 km/62 mi north of Toulouse, on the River Lot; population (1999) 20,000. The town's main industries are the manufacture of leather and pottery. It is the centre of a wine-producing area. With many medieval buildings, Cahors is a popular tourist destination.

Historical buildings include a 12th-century cathedral, a 14th-century three-towered fortified bridge, and the 14th-century castle of the seneschal of Quercy.

Pope John XXII was born here.



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There is one, Francois Villet, at Cahors, who will send me wine-casks for my cloth-bales, so to Cahors I will go, though all the robber-knights of Christendom were to line the roads like yonder poplars.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
"As you please, sir," said Caderousse, who, anxious not to lose the present opportunity of finding a customer for one of the few bottles of Cahors still remaining in his possession, hastily raised a trap-door in the floor of the apartment they were in, which served both as parlor and kitchen.
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