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Riom, town, Puy-de-Dôme département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région, central France. It lies along the Ambène River at the western edge of the fertile Limagne Plain, just north of Clermont-Ferrand. The old town, built around the ancient Church of Saint-Amable, is ringed by wide boulevards. In the Middle Ages, Riom was the capital of the county of Auvergne. It continued to be the seat of the judiciary when Auvergne came under French sovereignty. During the German occupation of France in World War II, a supreme court of justice was set up by the Vichy government at Riom. In a noted incident in the annals of French justice, the court tried Édouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud, and Léon Blum, premiers of the Third Republic, and General Maurice Gamelin for responsibility for the defeat of France. Tobacco products and pharmaceuticals are manufactured in Riom. Pop. (1999) 18,548; (2014 est.) 18,749.

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