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Nantua

Nantua \Nantua\ n. (Cookery) A white sauce with whipping cream and shrimp butter.

Syn: shrimp sauce.

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Nantua is a commune and subprefecture in the Ain department in eastern France. The usual demonym for its inhabitants is Nantuatien(ne); however, they are also sometimes called Catholards, after a needle used by leatherworkers. Indeed, Nantua has long been a town of tanners and shoemakers.

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The armed population of Nantua, Saint-Claude, and Septmoncel," says a dispatch,[12] "have again cut off provisions from the Gex region.