FRENCH TOWNS BUILT BY THE ENGLISH
In the ancient province of P.arigord, and due east of Bordeaux, in the southwest of France, there are a number of remarkably small towns which were built by the English. The best known of these, are Puyguilhem (near Sigoules), Fonroque (near Eymet), Eoquepine, Moliere, Cadouin, Ealinde, Beaumont, and Montpazier. ;These small towns were so many centres built by the English when they occupied this region during the Hundred Years War. Long before America built straight avenues and streets our ancestors had set the fashion, for these fortified towns were all built, and remain to this day, to a regular pattern, generally of three parallel main thoroughfares, crossed at right angles by straight streets. Thus a few stout archers or crossbowmen could hold the town.
Montpazier is one of the most important of these strongholds. It was built in 1273 on a plateau dominating the valley of the Drot. Vestiges of the period are many, Beaumont, for instance, still having its anpient church and ramparts.
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Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 7
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170FRENCH TOWNS BUILT BY THE ENGLISH Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 7
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