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Extract from the Les Baux Travel Guides:
At the top of the Alpilles ridge, 7km southwest of St-Rmy, lies the distinctly unreal fortified village of
LES BAUX
, where the ruined eleventh-century citadel is hard to distinguish from the edge of the plateau, whose rock is both foundation and part of the structure.
Once Les Baux lived off the power and widespread possessions in Provence of its medieval lords, who owed allegiance to no one. When the dynasty died out at the end of the fourteenth century, however, the town, which had once numbered 6000 inhabitants, passed to the counts of Provence and then to the kings of France. In 1632, Richelieu razed the feudal citade...
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