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Administrative centre of Indre-et-Loire département in Centre region, west-central France, on the River Loire 200 km/125 mi southwest of Paris; population (1999) 137,000. It manufactures chemicals, textiles, machinery, and electrical goods, and has a trade in agricultural produce, fruit, wine, and spirits. It is an ancient city and was capital of the former province of Touraine. Tours became the seat of the French government for four days in 1940 during World War II.
Tours was the site of the French defeat of the Arabs in 732 under Charles Martel. The novelist Honoré de Balzac was born here (1799).
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