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Extract from the Riom Travel Guides:
Just 15km north of Clermont-Ferrand,
RIOM
is sedate and provincial. One-time capital of the entire Auvergne, its Renaissance architecture, fashioned out of the local black volcanic stone, now secures the town's status as a highlight of the northern Massif. In 1942, just before the first trains of Jewish deportees were shipped to Nazi Germany, Lon Blum, Jewish prime minister and architect of the Socialist Popular Front government, was put on trial in Riom by Marshal Ptain, France's collaborationist ruler, in an attempt to blame the country's defeat in 1940 on the Left. Defending himself, Blum turned the trial into an indictment of colla...
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