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  1. City, capital of Puy-de-Dome departement, in
  2. the Auvergne region of France; population
  3. (1993) 256,000. It is a centre for
  4. agriculture, and its rubber industry is the
  5. largest in France. Car tyres are manufactured
  6. here; other products include chemicals,
  7. preserves, foodstuffs, and clothing. The
  8. Gothic cathedral is 13th century. Urban II
  9. ordered the First Crusade at a council here
  10. 1095. The 17th-century writer Blaise Pascal
  11. was born here.
  12.