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  1. Industrial city of France, on the river
  2. Loire; 115 km/70 mi SW of Paris; population
  3. (1982) 220,500. It is the capital of Loiret
  4. departement. Industries include engineering
  5. and food processing. Orleans, of pre-Roman
  6. origin and formerly the capital of the old
  7. province of Orleanais, is associated with
  8. Joan of Arc, who liberated it from English
  9. rule in 1429.
  10.