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Montignac was the home of the nineteenth-century French writer Eugène Le Roy, who was a district tax collector and wrote two celebrated novels about rural life in eighteenth-century Périgord. There is a small museum in the town dedicated to him. [6] Montignac was the main area for the district between 1790 and 1795.
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Château de Montignac - keep and remains of an 11th-13th century castle, listed since 1962 as a monument historique by the Ministry of Culture. [4]The bronze bell in the parish church of Notre-Dame weighs 200 kg and dates from 1666 and has been classified by the French Ministry of Culture as a monument historique since 1944. [5]
Montignac-le-Coq (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tiɲak lə kɔk]; Occitan: Montinhac) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. Population [ edit ]
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The town centre. The commune is located at the confluence of the Vézère and the Beune rivers. It is accessible by the SNCF network at the Gare des Eyzies, by the A89 motorway, exit 16 Périgueux-East (Bordeaux – Périgueux axis) and then by the D710 road or by Montignac via Terrasson (Lyon - Terrasson-Lavilledieu axis).
Abzac is located in the extreme north-east of the department of Charente and borders the communes of Availles-Limouzine, Lessac, Saint-Germain-de-Confolens, Brillac, and Oradour-Fanais.
The greater part of the town has been built on the river's left bank, with the smaller right bank area known as the Saint Jacques district. The town is situated on one of the pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela and is home to the French Air Force training base 709. Cognac is 400 kilometers (250 mi) southwest of Paris.