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  1. Capital of Gard departement,
  2. Languedoc-Roussillon, S France; population
  3. (1982) 132,500. Roman remains include an
  4. amphitheatre dating from the 2nd century and
  5. the Pont du Gard (aqueduct). The city gives
  6. its name to the cloth known as denim (de
  7. Nimes); it is the birthplace of the writer
  8. Alphonse Daudet.
  9.