| Title: | Lorient, port of |
| Original Title: | Orient, port de l' |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 11 (1765), p. 642 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Philip Whalen [Coastal Carolina University] |
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Geography
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Lorient, port of." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Philip Whalen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.340>. Trans. of "Orient, port de l'," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 11. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Lorient, port of." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Philip Whalen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.340 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Orient, port de l'," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 11:642 (Paris, 1765). |
Lorient, port of, or simply Lorient , port of France in Brittany, at the base of the Bay of Port Louis and the mouth of the River Scorff, which comes from Pont Scorff. There, around 35 years ago, a city was built in which the East Indies Company normally keeps its large warehouses. Coordinates according to Cassini: longitude, 14d. 8'. 40," latitude, 47d. 44'. 50."