Calvados the former was 904,000, as against 857,000 in the Cantal latter year, the diminution being acconipanied by Charente a decrease in the annual number of deaths.
It contains many mountains volcanic in origin (Plomb du Cantal, Puy de Dome, Mont Dore), fertile valleys such as that of Limagne, vast pasturelands, and numerous medicinal springs.
The Garabit viaduct carries the railway near St Flour, in the Cantal department, France, at 420 ft.
In 1815 he was elected deputy for Cantal, and finally left the Chamber on its dissolution in 1823.