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Identifier: 01820163.5270.emory.edu
Title: Southern France, including Corsica: handbook for travellers
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker, London :b
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views. Angouleme is noted for its paper-mills. The town existed in the time of the Romans, who named it Encolisma.It was included in the kingdom of Aquitaine, but at a later period becamethe capital of a county which was handed over to the English by thetreaty of Bretigny in 1360. It revolted in 1373, and as a reward for itslidelity to France, it was constituted a duchy and made the appanage ofone of the royal princes. The town was several times taken and sackedin the Religious Wars, notably by Coligny. l-rom the stations we ascend by the Avenue Gambetta, passingthe church of St. Martial (PI. E, 3), a handsome Romanesque build-ing by Paul Abadie (d. 1884). The Boulevard Pasteur, divergingto the right, leads to the Halles Centrales or Murche Convert(PI. D, 2), on the site of the old prisons. A new street beginning at the Halles leads to the *H6tel de Ville(PI. D, 3), a very remarkable structure, in great part modern (1858-66), which is also the work of Abadie. It is in the st\le of the
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to Bordeaux:. ANGOULEME. /. Route 1. 11 13th cent, and occupies the site of the castle of the Counts of An-gouleme, of which there remain two towers on the left, one of the14th, the other of the loth century. The small Picture and Sculp-ture Gallery and the Archaeological Museum in the interior areopen free on Sun., Thurs., and holidays from 12 to 4; to strangersalso at other times. — In a small garden on the left side are amarble Statue of Margaret of Valois, or Angouleme, sister of Fran-cis I. and Queen of Navarre (d. 1549), by Badion de la Tronchere(1871), and a War Monument for 1870-71, by R. Verlet. The Theatre (PI. D, 3) is in the Place de la Commune, a squareabutting on the Ramparts, beside the Monument of President Carnot(PI. C, 3), by R. Verlet This point commands a comprehensive viewof the valley of the Anguienne. The Cathedral of St. Peter (PI. C, 3), to the right, is one ofthe most interesting Romanesque-Byzantine churches in France,recalling Notre-Dame at Poitiers (p. 6

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