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MONPAZIER
, founded in 1284 by King Edward I of England (who was also Duke of Aquitaine), is one of the most complete of the surviving
bastides
, and still relatively free of the commercialism that suffocates a place like Domme. Picturesque and placid though it is today, the village has a hard and bitter history, being twice - in 1594 and 1637 - the centre of peasant rebellions provoked by the misery that followed the Wars of Religion. Both uprisings were brutally suppressed: the 1637 peasants' leader was broken on the wheel in the square. Sully, the Protestant general, describes a rare moment of light relief in the terrible...
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