BERGERAC, town of France, capital of an arrondisse ment in the department of Dordogne, on the right bank of the river Dordogne 6om. E. of Bordeaux on the railway to Cahors. Pop. (1931) 13,008. The site commands one of the important valleys opening out from the Plateau Central on to Bordeaux. The river is made navigable to this point by means of a large dam. On the edge of the difficult plateau country, Bergerac early embraced Protestantism and suffered severely from religious wars, and from the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). Wine of fine quality is grown in the district and is sent to Libourne and Bordeaux for export. There is trade in grain, brandy and salmon of the Dordogne; and chestnuts are largely exported to England. Bergerac is the seat of a sub-prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce. Its fortifications were destroyed in 1621.