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Golfe du Lion

[gawlf dy lee-awn]

noun

  1. French name of the Gulf of Lions.



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It is bounded N.E. by Gard, N.W. by Aveyron and Tarn, and S. by Aude and the Golfe du Lion.

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Used also of the gulf usually called the Gulf of Lyons, but in French La Golfe du Lion, or “Gulf of the Lion,” from its stormy water. 

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By steaming around in the Golfe du Lion the French Fleet could keep a good part of the British Mediterranean Fleet disengaged without firing a salvo.

In the south the Orb, the H�rault and the Vidourle are independent rivers flowing to the Golfe du Lion; farther north, the Gard—formed by the union of several streams named Gardon—the C�ze and the Ard�che flow to the Rhone.

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As they entered the Golfe du Lion their ship was captured by a Spanish corsair and taken to Rosas.

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