We also encounter the memory of the region's most important literary figures: Arnaut Daniel, Bertran de Born, Michel de Montaigne, Étienne de La Boétie, Brantôme, Fenelon, Maine de Biran, Eugene Le Roy, and André Maurois its great captains: Talleyrand, Saint-Exupéry, Biron and even entertainer and activist Josephine Baker. Following these wars, Périgord, fief of Henry of Navarre, was to return to the Crown for good and would continue to suffer from the sudden political changes of the French nation, from the Revolution to the tragic hours of the Resistance. At the time, Bergerac was one of the most powerful Huguenot strongholds, along with La Rochelle. In the second half of the 16th century, however, war was waged in the area, as the attacks, pillaging, and fires of the Wars of Religion reached a rare degree of violence in Périgord. In the countryside, the nobility erected the majority of the more than 1200 chateaux, manors and country houses. The finest Gothic and Renaissance residences were built in Périgueux, Bergerac, and Sarlat. The county had been torn apart and, as a consequence, that modeled its physiognomy.ĭuring the calmer periods of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the Castillon plain on the banks of the Dordogne saw a development in urban architecture. Being situated at the boundaries of influence of the monarchies of France and England, it oscillated between the two dynasties for more than three hundred years of struggle until the end of the Hundred Years' War in 1453. According to Julius Caesar, the Gauls took refuge in these caves during the resistance.Īfter Guienne province was transferred to the English Crown under the Plantagenets following the remarriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1152, Périgord passed by right to English suzerainty. These subterranean refuges and lookout huts were large enough to shelter entire local populations. The earliest cluzeaux (artificial caves either above or below ground) can be found throughout the Dordogne. Concentrated in a few major sites are the vestiges of the Gallo-Roman period-–the gigantic ruined tower and arenas in Périgueux (formerly Vesone), the Périgord museum's archaeological collections, villa remains in Montcaret, and the Roman tower of La Rigale Castle in Villetoureix. The Petrocores took part in the resistance against Rome. The river Dordogne near Castelnaud-la-Chapelle
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