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Extract from the Les Arques Travel Guides:
Twenty-five kilometres southwest of Gourdon on the Fumel road, you come to a pretty but not remarkable
bastide
called Cazals; a left turn here takes you along the bottom of the valley of the Masse and up its left flank to the exquisite hamlet of
LES ARQUES
. This is quiet, remote, small-scale farming country, emptied of people by the slaughter of rustic sons in World War I and by migration to the towns in search of jobs and money.
Les Arques' main claim to fame is the Russian Cubist/Expressionist sculptor Osip Zadkine, who bought the old house by the church here in 1934. Some of his sculptures ado...
read the whole Les Arques Travel Guides...
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