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Rhône 

a department in southeastern France, largely in the eastern spurs of the Massif Central. Area, 2,859 sq km. Population, 1,425,000 (1973). The capital is Lyon.

Rhône is one of the most economically developed departments in France. In 1968 industry and agriculture employed 38 and 5 percent of the economically active population, respectively. Industries include machine building (motor vehicles, river vessels, textile machinery), electrical engineering, and textiles. There is also a chemical industry; of special significance is the production of synthetic fiber at the Rhône-Poulenc plants.

About one-third of Rhône’s total land area is under cultivation, mainly in the lowlands of the Saône and Rhône river valleys. The chief crops are wheat, potatoes, vegetables, grapes, and fruit. Cattle and sheep are pastured in the mountains.
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And, as though to add to the daily misery which this prosperous canal inflicted on the unfortunate inn-keeper, whose utter ruin it was fast accomplishing, it was situated between the Rhone from which it had its source and the post-road it had depleted, not a hundred steps from the inn, of which we have given a brief but faithful description.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
There was watercress soup, and sole, and a delightful omelette stuffed with mushrooms and truffles, and two small rare ducklings, and artichokes, and a dry yellow Rhone wine of which Bartley had always been very fond.
Alexander's Bridge by Cather, Willa View in context
The boulders discovered in the pots had traveled a great distance, for there is no rock like them nearer than the distant Rhone Glacier.
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