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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRANTOME , a See also:

town of See also:south-western See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Dordogne, 20 M. N. by W. of Perigueux by See also:steam-See also:tramway. Pop. (1906) 1230. The town is built, in See also:great See also:part, on an See also:island in the See also:river Dronne. It is well known for the remains of an See also:abbey founded by See also:Charlemagne about 770 and afterwards destroyed by the See also:Normans. The See also:oldest existing portion is a square See also:tower dating from the 1th See also:century, built upon a See also:rock beside the See also:church which it overlooks. It communicates by a See also:staircase with the church, a rectangular See also:building partly Romanesque, partly See also:Gothic, to the See also:west of which are the remains of a See also:cloister. The abbey buildings date from the 18th century, and now serve as hotel-de-ville, magistrature and See also:schools. Caves in the neighbouring rocks were inhabited by the monks before the building of the abbey; one of them, used as an See also:oratory, contains curious carvings, representing the Last See also:Judgment and the Crucifixion. In the See also:middle of the 16th century See also:Pierre de Bourdeille came into See also:possession of the abbey, from which he took the 'name of Brantome. Brantome has some old houses and a church of the 15th century, which was once fortified and is now used as a See also:market.

Truffles are the See also:

chief See also:article of See also:commerce; and there are quarries of freestone in the neighbourhood. The dolmen which is known as Pierre-See also:Levee, to the See also:east of the town, is the most remarkable in See also:Perigord.

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