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Brantôme Raymond Poincaré, president of the Council at the time, © COPYRIGHT nicknamed it the "Green Venice of the Périgord", a title that never brought the city glory. Yet it has nothing to envy to the other municipalities in the department. You can’t help but fall under the charm of the banks of , their abbey, their totally unusual bridge and the exceptional sculpted cave, called "Cave of doomsday" (grotte du jugement dernier). The numerous prehistoric and megalithic sites of the surrounding area, its Celtic and Gallo-Roman remains, its "cluzeaux" and troglodytic dwellings testify to its antiquity. Its bell tower – which is rather a "Campanile" built on the rock – would be the oldest in with its basic protocoupole and its carolingian capitals. The Benedictine abbey founded by Charlemagne bears the mark of the history of its destructions and reconstructions for over twelve centuries. Reading the works of one of its abbots: "Brantôme" – Catherine de Medici’s man – is essential to our knowledge of the sixteenth century. A gateway to the Périgord-Limousin Regional Natural Park and a jewel of the Val-de-Dronne, Brantôme welcomes nature lovers all year-round, as well as people who enjoy living and eating The site of the national Prehistory museum. well. Romantic, relaxing, rich with history, leisure and sports activities, the city brings a different touch to the Périgord. Musée national de la Préhistoire n TOURIST OFFICE PÉRIGORD DRONNE BELLE Église Notre-Dame des Ezies 6, rue du Puyjoli-de-Meyjounissas This is THE museum of the world’s capital of prehistory, BRANTÔME-EN-PERIGORD the gateway to understand the visit of the shelters nearby & +33 (0)5 53 05 80 63 in their context. With the acquisition of locally sourced www.perigord-dronne-belle.fr items but also from other , Jean-Jacques High season: open every day from 10am to 1pm and Cleyet-Merle, the director of this magnificent museum from 2pm to 6pm. From January 1st to February 28th: and valuable employees have recreated the complete closed, hotline (except Saturday and Sunday). For the chronological order of Palaeolithic period, since the other months, see on the website. installation of the first hunter-gatherers in Aquitaine The Tourist Office is located in the former church Notre- -400,000 years, until the end of the ice ages which is Dame. You will be pleasantly received by charming -10,000 years BCE. The tool collections and works of hostesses who will answer your questions. You will also prehistoric art unearthed in the area are always presented find brochures about accommodation, catering, the full with the same chronological and geological interests. listing of cultural sites open to visit, festivities, exhibitions, Flint knapping, but also many European Venuses are in the crafts, leisure, as well as some screens, a table and a spotlight. The tour examines the lithic and bone industry, touch-screen. In the shop, you can buy table sets, the engraved and carved blocks – the first set of this kind in happy family game on the theme of prehistory and the the world – the furniture art, burials, prehistoric fauna. The museum offers a parietal art furniture shop during middle ages, postcards, walking sticks etc. Finally, the the holidays, on reservation: children with the tools of Office has set up new tours and animations. our ancestors, are transformed into prehistoric artists. The village of Bournat – Le Bugue n MUSÉE NATIONAL DE LA PRÉHISTOIRE This theme park presents on 8ha scenes of rural life and 1, rue du Musée popular history of the Périgord in the late 19th century: LES EYZIES-DE-TAYAC-SIREUIL classroom, farm and cultures, old trades and artisans & +33 (0)5 53 06 45 65 & (walnut oil mill, still, locomobile, fairground organ, tools, +33 (0)5 53 06 45 49 horse-drawn carriages…), toys and party, so objects of www.musee-prehistoire-eyzies.fr everyday life. The animations follow one another in the [email protected] village: active craftsmen reviving ancestral trades, batch onl of country bread, forge, fair with rides of yesteryear, Low season: open Wednesday to Monday from 9.30am to games of yesteryear like bowling. Comedians animate 12.30pm and from 2pm to 5.30pm. High season: Wednesday the streets in period costume. Children are taken care of to Monday from 9.30am to 6pm; every day from 9.30am to in manual activity workshops (pen writing, stone carving, 6.30pm. High season in July and August, mid-season in June baking bread, glass beads) and storytelling sessions. and September. Free for under 25-year-olds (citizens EU). Adult: Old silent films are projected in an old tobacco drying E6. Tourism label & Disability. Guided tour. Activities. Library. shed while the rides (caterpillar 1900, chahut-bahut,

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Overlooking the town of Beynac-et-Cazenac. butterfly merry-go-round, coconut shy, rigolarium, rickshaw…) attract children. The Great Wheel of the Château de Beynac early 20th century offers a panoramic view, day and This is the most spectacular Perigordian castle. Built on a night. Other activities: a 40-minute boat ride along the cliff at 150 meters above the Dordogne on an impressive canals in a humid environment, a mini-farm with goats, rocky peak, an ideal point to observe the whole valley, rabbits, ponies, cows, ducks, etc. and the acquisition of château de Beynac faces its lifelong enemy, Castelnaud. 2 reproductions in electrical version of a Stanley mountain It is the headquarters of one of the four baronies of wagon, the ancestor of the bus… You can spend two Périgord. With very thick walls, Beynac plays defense hours in the village like all day… Nocturnes in high until the end. Its stern fortress look is enhanced by the golden patina of its walls with changing colours. The season where the lights of the paper lanterns stretch construction of the castle began in the 12th century but to the guinguette and on the terrace of the restaurant underwent changes until the 17th century. Its wall walk until midnight. Possibility to privatize all or part of where the soldiers armed with pikes and spears waited the Bournat to organize a family event, a seminar or for the attacker, its 13th century crenelated dungeon a wedding! in the inner courtyard, the hoardings from where the n PARC À THÈME LE BOURNAT soldiers threw stones and the arrowslits will make 191, allée Paul-Jean-Souriau you want to attack the English and French fortresses LE BUGUE & +33 (0)5 53 08 41 99 in turn. The castle chapel has lauze roofing stones and www.lebournat.fr a bell-gable lulled by embrasures, it makes you feel dizzy. Inside we find choice pieces: the guard room, on the impressive vault of the 15th century Salle des Etats Closed from October 1st to March 31st. Low season: open and its sculpted Renaissance fireplace, the 12th century every day and public holidays from 10am to 6pm. High oratory with walls decorated by 16th century frescoes, season: every day and public holidays from 10am to 7pm. the narrow staircase leading to the dungeon. You will From July 12th to August 30th open until midnight every also enjoy the kitchen where scenes were shot for Wednesday as well as August 16th. During school holidays several fims, among others by Luc Besson, of February the Mini-Ferme is open. Free until 4 years The Visitors 2, by Jean-Marie Poiré, and which served old. Adult: E14.50. Child (from 4 to 12 years old): E10. as scenery for Ever after by Andy Tennant… From Reduced rate at E12.50 (job seekers, students and disabled the terrace of the castle, the view over the Dordogne people). Family package 2 adults + 2 children at E43; valley and the hills crowned with castles is wonderful. 2 adults + 3 children at E51. Adult pass: E30. Child A document is handed to you at the entrance along pass: E20. Holiday voucher. Tourisme & Handicap label. with a completely unique audioguide allowing you Catering (at Paul with music on the terrace shaded on an auditory and visual immersion in the history of the sunny days). Shop. exceptionally lively Beynac fortress. You can reach

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n CHÂTEAU DE CASTELNAUD Parc naturel régional Musée de la Guerre au Moyen-Age CASTELNAUD-LA-CHAPELLE Périgord-Limousin & +33 (0)5 53 31 30 00 Created in 1998, Parc Naturel Régional Périgord- www.castelnaud.com Limousin straddles two regions at the same time, [email protected] Aquitaine and Limousin, and two departments, Dordogne and Haute-Vienne. It has 4 touristic iden- m tities: Bocage Limousin, Massif des Feuillardiers, Open all year. Low season: every day from 10am to 6pm. Plateaux Jumilhacois and Vallées de l’Isle and Vallées High season: every day from 9am to 8pm. Free for under E Périgourdines. A preserved country, built on a human 10-year-olds. Adult: 8.40. Child (from 10 to 17 years scale and with a rich heritage, it has almost 50,000 inha- old): E4.20. Group (20 people): E5.80. Night tour: adult, E E bitants and 180,000 hectares. You can visit outstanding 11, from 5 to 15 years old child, 6. Reduced rates natural sites all year round. Land of tradition with before 1pm in July and August (E7.40 for the adults and E original know-how ("Charentais" slippers, Nontron 3.70 for the children). Children welcome (reading room knife, chestnut crafts and basketry, extraction of for entertaining break around the Middle Ages, interactive gold...), the park is also a place of celebration and multi-media game). Activities. conviviality (bellows Carnival, festivals of mushroom, wood, chestnut, festival of bandas, turkeys fair). Many Montpazier museums, churches and castles open to the public and This country house with a regular plan is over 700 years themed itineraries such as the route Richard Cœur de old. It has withstanded time, almost untouched since Lion reveal a rich and sometimes turbulent history. the XIIIith century, allowing us to savour the square Other places such as the Museum of Contemporary Art with irregular arcades, its hall with units of measure- of or the Métiers d’Art experimental Pole ment used in grain trade that served the grain trade, the of Nontron, reveal the vitality of the creative spirit in Saint-Dominique church and the maison du Chapitre, the Périgord-Limousin. In 2013, Parc Naturel Régional of the XIVth century… Considered as a model among Périgord-Limousin has been certified by the European the 300 bastides built in the… Southwest, it developed Charter for Sustainable Tourism. a perfect rectangular plan. The houses surrounding n the Place des Cornières were born between the Middle PARC NATUREL RÉGIONAL Ages and the seventeenth century, 32 buildings in the PÉRIGORD-LIMOUSIN village are thus classified by historical monuments. Maison du parc la Barde THE SHELL Monpazier is the cradle of Jean Galmot (1879-1928), & journalist, writer and MP for Guyane, ruined and +33 (0)5 53 55 36 00 murdered by his political opponents at the beginning www.pnr-perigord-limousin.fr of the last century. [email protected] Musée gallo-romain Vesunna de Périgueux Located in the heart of the ancient city, on the large mansion of the 1st century, this museum is unique in © I-DORDOGNE – FOTOLIA France by its concept, whose glass and steel architecture is signed Jean Nouvel. Vesunna is organized around two architectural spaces designed as mezzanines dominating the remains of the domus and this on a surface of nearly 700 m² on the ground. The two balconies present a full exhibition on Vésonne. Domus, witness to the vestiges of the ancient city, is the essential element of the site. Everything is organized around it, the heart of the house, the peristyle garden and the rooms. The whole is protected by a metal umbrella carried by 14 pillars at 9 meters high. You will appre- ciate the spectacular view of the archeological site and the discovery of the whole, in details on wooden footbridges. In-situ painted plasters, ceramics, jewelry, etc. are thus offered. The 50 windows devoted to the life of yesteryear are also essential as well as the mural paintings. Temporary exhibitions complement the visit. The museum has a document for visually impaired and blind people. They are sheets connected by a spiral that highlight the monuments of the city, the remains, the objects, etc. A text in big letters and braille specifies the The tour de Vésone in Perigueux. MUST-SEES 15 © PHOVOIR DISCOVER PÉRIGORD

Sarlat-la-Canéda. name of the images. The shop offers a small Vesunna Sarlat-la-Canéda guide, a tour guide, in an interactive version. It follows the meaning of the visit that is made by theme, incor- The capital of the Black Périgord is located in the midst porates images extracted from the film La domus et of hills called "pechs". Sarlat-la-Canéda, city of art and son décor. It allows access through QR codes to certain history, was born in the 9th century and built around a tracks of the audio guide, animations and film. During benedictine abbey. Very soon, the city become wealthy the school holidays, you can visit the museum and solve under the direct authority of the of Rome. The the puzzle to open Mascellio’s small box and release Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) and the plague had his soul. A visit-survey to be done in family, with a serious demographic and economic consequences. mediator, in the museum collections and on the Vésone During the reconstruction in the 15th and 16th century domus site. Other animation: Tempus Fugit, an escape superb hôtel particuliers were built in the city. Its game in Vesunna. Everything happens behind the scenes commercial and artisanal activities developed, and of the museum to investigate the disappearance of an new ideas were born with Etienne de la Boétie (1530- exceptional archeological discovery. Discover the clues, 1563). The city maintained this incredible pace until the solve the puzzles and identify the fugitive before his 18th century, then its decline started due to its isolated plane takes off. geographic position. In the end, this will prove to be an asset for the city. In 1962, André Malraux created n SITE-MUSÉE GALLO-ROMAIN the law on the preserved sectors and Sarlat-la-Canéda VESUNNA will be the first to benefit from it. During 25 years, 20, rue du 26e-Régiment-d’Infanterie several restoration works restore the medieval city PERIGUEUX PERIGUEUX to its previous splendour. Recent road-paving works & +33 (0)5 53 53 00 92 as well as gaz lighting have prolonged the operation. www.perigueux-vesunna.fr Today, Sarlat-la-Canéda is the first city in Europe in [email protected] terms of number of buildings classified by square meter onlm over 11ha, 253 buidings, 18 classified monuments Closed two weeks in January. High season: open every day and 59 monuments waiting to be. It is a true jewel, from 10am to 7pm. From April to June and in September: a testimony of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Tuesday to Friday from 9.30am to 5.30pm, weekend and Sarlat-la-Canéda truly recovers its authenticity and public holidays from 10am to 12.30pm and from 2.30pm splendour during low season, showing narrow alleys to 6pm. From October to March: Tuesday to Friday from more discreetly, as well as inner courtyards, hôtels 9.30am to 12.30pm and from 1.30pm to 5pm, weekend particuliers where all ages meet (medieval founda- from 10am to 12.30pm and from 2.30pm to 6pm. Adult: tions, Renaissance floors, classic roofing). Another E6. Reduced rate: E4. Free for under 6-year-olds, specificity of Sarlat-la-Canéda: its Lauze roofing. recipients of social minimums, disabled people and their The famous flat limestones, laid on the roofs, weighting guide. Tourism label & Disability. Shop. Activities. 500 kg to 850 kg per square meter.

NATURE 17 w Precipitation: The Dordogne is sufficiently watered bocages, cultures and limestone plateaus with clay- with an average annual water height of 860 mm. Some limestone soil where our famous wild orchids grow, but quantities of water collected under storm are sometimes also truffles, black diamonds of Périgord. very considerable like the 100 mm recorded on May w Marsh: The largest marsh in the department is 17, 1971 at the Bergerac station. The least rainy region that of Groléjac, of a surface area of 25 ha. It has been is Bergeracois with an average of 112 days a year and arranged as a leisure water plan while preserving the 800 mm. The most rainy region is that of nature of the high marsh. with 1,160 mm in Piégut-Pluviers. Winter and spring are very rainy, often exceeding 90 mm; summer is dry with a mean minimum of 40 mm of rain; autumn is the The four Périgords finest season. Snow rarely falls and never abundantly, On horseback on the Aquitaine sedimentary basin and even though it is not rare in Périgord Vert. leaning against the crystalline base of the , w the Périgord is often called a "transition country" as the DISCOVER PÉRIGORD Wind: the prevailing winds are from east-south-east diversity of these landscapes is surprising. This rugged in the fall and winter, and west-northwest in summer. geography is due to the combination of a dense hydro- logical network and a disparate geological structure. Relief There is a mosaic of individualized countries within the w Characteristic landscapes: mainly plains, valleys Périgord itself. They have been grouped into four tourist and a few hills. areas, commonly known as the "4 Périgord": Périgord w Vert, Périgord Blanc, Périgord Pourpre and Périgord Noir. Rivers and valleys: The department of Dordogne w is named after the Dordogne river that has its source The Périgord Vert. The name "Périgord Vert" is at the foot of Sancy and joins the Garonne at the Bec already found in Jules Verne’s travel notes, which is d’Ambès, after a course of 472 kilometers. It crosses the particularly suitable for this green and generously department from east to west in its southern part. The watered setting, conducive to tourism... "green". It is the Dordogne is mostly part of the and its country of a refined polyculture with a clearly dominant northeast fringe at the Massif Central. From north-east to orientation for breeding. A country that breathes well- southwest, rivers flow with many streams for tributaries: being and tradition! Originally, the name "Périgord Vert" Dropt, Dordogne, Vézère, Auvézère, Dronne. applied only to limousin fringes of the department, w corresponding to the "Nontronnais" region. By adding Caves and abyss: The caves and abyss are mainly the Dronne countries, it is all the northern part of the located along the Dordogne and Vézère valleys, especially Dordogne department that is now regrouped. La Côle, in Black Périgord in the Eyzies and Montignac region. La Dronne, La Belle and L’Auvézère irrigate this country w Geology: The 4 Périgord have geological charac- which extends from Lanouaille to La Roche-Chalais teristics. through Nontron, Brantôme, Bourdeilles and Ribérac. Périgord Vert leans against the crystalline basement of Located in the north of the department, Périgord Vert the Massif Central. There are rocks formed in the primary is backed by the crystalline base of the Massif Central. age such as the Piègut granites, gneiss of , There are therefore rocks formed in the primary age, Lanouaille crystalline schists. Also present are metal ores, prior to the carboniferous: granite of Piègut, Gneiss de lead and zinc, as well as quartz (Saint-Paul-la-Roche) La Coquille, crystalline schists of Lanouaille. Metallic but also gold as in Jumilhac-le-Grand. ores, lead and zinc are also present, as well as quartz In the center of the department, Périgord Blanc is the (Saint-Paul-la-Roche). Finally, the presence of gold country of chalk limestone plateaus with white and gray as evidenced by the gold gallery in Jumilhac is also soils often covered with a clay-limestone layer good for worth noting. the forest and strawberry. It is also the country of large w The Périgord Blanc. The name "Périgord Blanc" meadows criss-crossed by the Auvézère and the Isle, traditionally refers to the white limestone plateaus of not to forget the poor soil consisting of gravel, sand Ribéracois-Verteillacois (which now belong to Périgord and clay of La Double, between the Isle and the Dronne. vert). These well-cleared agricultural areas were opposed Périgord Pourpre to the south benefits from sediments to the densely wooded areas of the Sarladais described as deposited at the time of erosion of the Pyrenees and Périgord Noir. Today, this name corresponds to the country the Massif Central. of Périgueux, the Isle valley, descending westward and that Périgord Noir in the east consists of a cretaceous limestone of the Auvézère going up to the east. The Blanc is today basement suitable for "shelters under rock" and other that of limestone cliffs of the region of Saint-Astier, and the troglodytic housing environment. Erosion has dug these stones of the Périgord Causse. From Hautefort to Montpon, cracked rocks causing sinkholes, chasms, caves and dry passing through Perigueux, the Périgord Blanc , valleys where groundwater disappears. The clay deposits among others, the bourgades of Savignac-les-Eglises, accumulated in a discontinuous way during the tertiary Sorges, Saint-Astier, Neuvic and Mussidan. Périgueux, the era have contributed to the diversity of the landscapes Roman and Renaissance city, capital of the Périgord, is in this region. undoubtedly the major attraction of this region. Located w Forests and Wood: the forest which represents 45% in the center of the department, the Périgord Blanc is the of the territory, is omnipresent, it is the green lung of country of chalky limestone plateaux with white and gray Périgord. Like a mosaic with tree species rich in leaves soils often covered with a silver-limestone layer favorable rich in leaves, it occupies the territory alternating with to the forest and strawberry.

HISTORY 21 finally it had to be owned to Louis XIII who shave the Republic in Périgord do not have a particle but they are fortifications, to punish it for associating itself with the doctors, lawyers, teachers and later craftsmen or traders. fate of the of Rohan and of the Force, leaders of the They are far from revolutionary, but they defend essential Protestant party. Neither Ribérac nor Nontron escaped humanist values. They were the radicals who dominated the scourge of war. The first, in 1568, served as a refuge the political scene throughout the Third Republic. Their for the remnants of the reformed troops who, under impact began to crumble in 1936 because they were the orders of Bouans, had been beaten by the Duke of torn between the alliance on the left and the centrist Montpensier, in the vicinity of Mensignac. In 1584, the alternative to the right. Léon Blum surrounds himself Duke of Bouillon settled there with the religious practi- with some of them like Yvon Delbos or Suzanne Lacorre, tioner, and Nontron, who from 1356 to 1406, supported both of them are from Périgord. The Second World War several seats against the English, was stormed by Coligny, hit the department that suffered from the Resistance led by the French reformists and the rebels gathered, very early in the countryside. Communes underwent despite the fierce defence against him; and thrown by reprisals: near Bergerac was burned by the DISCOVER PÉRIGORD the winner. In 1592, the cities of the Périgord, among Germans in 1944 after a fierce fight. Masonry played an other Périgueux, suffered the influence of the Covenant; important role. Camille Bedin, a brother of Tolerance, but, in the advent of Henri IV, any attempts to rebellion was the only perimeter parliamentarian who refused disappeared. When the troubles of erupted, to accept the full powers of Pétain in 1940. while Sarlat-la-Canéda hunted the of Condé who After the war, Dordogne resumed its rather pink land had entered his walls and had garrison there, Périgueux profile. The General Council will see the presidency of was imposed by the same prince on a garrison ordered by the left radical Robert Lacoste born in , which the Marquis of Chanlost, a man of talent but cruel. The he was mayor. Finance officer, trade unionist CGT, he Marquis of Chanlost kept this town to the prince of Condé participated in the Resistance. In 1956, he became until the time when Joseph Bodin, who was assisted by Minister-Resident and Governor General of Algeria some intrepid citizens, handed it over under the king’s until May 1958. A strong , he was one of authority. As the Marquis learned that a conspiracy had the main actors in the Algerian war and defended his been formed against him, there was, at the head of many continued presence in the French Republic. He served in troops, the house of Bodin, the chief of the conjurers; but the National Assembly from 1962 to 1967. From 1971 to he did not recklessly commit himself, with thirty men, 1980, he was elected Socialist Senator of Dordogne, in a dark and narrow corridor, that he was received by while assuming the Vice-Chairmanship of the Regional Bodin and his friends who committed to give their lives. Council of Aquitaine and the Presidency of the General From the first shock, Chanlost was fatally wounded, and Council from 1974 to 1979. Meanwhile Yves Guéna, his demoralized soldiers soon fled (16 September 1653). a Breton married to a Perigordian woman, a companion During the 17th century, the revocation of the Edict of of the Liberation of Charles de Gaulle, weaves his canvas Nantes, yielded by Henri IV in favour of the Protestants, in this well-anchored land on the left. He arrived in was a serious blow to this department where the reform Périgord in the 1960s, set up L’Imprimerie des Stambres had thrown deep roots. The city of Bergerac had much to in Boulazac in 1968, whereas he is Ministry of Posts and suffer from it. The population of this rich and industrious Telecommunications. Mayor of Périgueux from 1971 to city was partly forced to go abroad. This department, 1997, he became also a general councilor, a member of throughout the 18th century, has not been the scene of the constituency and a senator. He will have another any trouble, of any event which deserved to be reported; future minister in front of him, parachuted in Périgord, and when the 1789’s Revolution broke apart, apart from Roland Dumas, who will beat him to the legislation some inevitable agitations, the representatives of the in 1981. Appointed to the Constitutional Council in people, Romme and Lakanal, survived maintaining, 1997 by Jacques Chirac, Yves Guéna succeeded in the even in the most critical moments, order and tranquility. chair Roland Dumas as president of the Constitutional Council as the oldest dean… Having to resign from all From The Revolution his elective mandates, his successor to the town hall will To The 21st century be another future minister, Xavier Darcos. For centuries, peasant life condition had not changed in Dordogne. In 1899 Eugène Le Roy published Jacquou le Nowadays Croquant, a so strong a story that it was hard to admit Today Périgord, included in the territory of the Dordogne that Jacquou never existed. This novel traces the department, is part of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, suffering in the countryside that hadn’t ended even which also includes the former regions -Poitou in the 19th century as the Republic gradually settled and Limousin. Following the regrouping of communes, in France. The nobles yielded some ground but the 11 new municipalities were created: Mareuil-en-Périgord, bourgeois took them. Dordogne will have trouble turning La Tour-Blanche-Cercles, La Jemaye-Ponteyraud, Saint- the page of the elders and the Empire. Added to this is Privat-en-Périgord, Boulazac-Isle-Manoire, Sanilhac, Masonic influence. Bergerac is the first city to light fires Val-de-Louyre-et-Caudeau, Castels-et-Bézenac, Les in 1747. A few years later, it was the Sarlat’s turn and Coteaux-Périgourdins, Bassillac-et-Auberoche, Cubjac- then Périgueux. The elected representatives of the Third Auvézère-Val-d’Ans.