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| Architecturally, this is a département of contrasts. In the West the buildings are opulent, sophisticated, neatly crafted. Châteaux like Montbrun and Rochebrune, surrounded by moats, are at once powerful – Montbrun repelled even Richard the Lionheart – and elegant, courtly and aristocratic. In the south as at Coussac-Bonneval, the stone is rough, the buildings simple, their purposes humble, popular, rooted in superstition. The tower there is a Lanterne des Morts; there was a pulley inside with which to raise a lantern to commemorate the dead and act as a landmark to the living. | |||||
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Limoges
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Mortemart
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Oradour-sur-Glane
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