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Camargue

LA (kä-marg), the delta of the Rhône, in southern France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône.

It is protected from the inundations of the river by dykes, and is mostly an unhealthy tract of pools and marshes, only portion of being cultivated. oyed in the time of Ferdi- CAMARILLA (a little chamber), a word first employe nand VII., of Spain (1814-1833), and which now signifies throughout Europe the influence exercised on the State by the court party, the favorites and sycowhich now signifies throughout Europe tion to the advice of his legitimate ministers.

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