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Medieval Charroux is one of France’s “Most Beautiful Villages”

February 2, 2017February 6, 2017 Richard AlexanderMost Beautiful Villages

 Occasionally you’ll pass through a French town that proclaims itself to be “une ville franche” – a “free city”.  There are even a couple dozen towns in France actually named some variant of “Villefranche” or (in the areas nearer to Germany) “Fribourg”, which means the same thing.

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