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Extract from the Cahors Travel Guides:
CAHORS
, on the River Lot, was the capital of the old province of Quercy. In its time, it has been a Gallic settlement; a Roman town; a briefly held Moorish possession; a town under English rule; a bastion of Catholicism in the Wars of Religion, sacked in consequence by Henri IV; a university town for four hundred years; and birthplace of the politician Lon Gambetta (1838-82), after whom so many French streets and squares are named. Modern Cahors is a sunny southern backwater, with two interesting sights in its
cathedral
and the remarkable fourteenth-century
Pont Valentr
.
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