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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OIRON , a See also:

village of western See also:France, in the See also:department of Deux-Sevres, 7z M. E. by S. of See also:Thouars by road. Oiron is celebrated for its See also:chateau, See also:standing in a See also:park and originally built in the first See also:half of the 16th See also:century by the See also:Gouffier See also:family, rebuilt in .the latter half of the 17th century by See also:Francis of See also:Aubusson, See also:duke of La Feuillade, and See also:purchased by Madame de See also:Montespan, who there passed the latter See also:part of her See also:life. See also:Marshal Villeroy afterwards lived there. The chateau consists of a See also:main See also:building with two See also:long projecting wings, one of which is a graceful structure of the See also:Renaissance See also:period built over a See also:cloister. The adjoining See also:church, begun in 1518, combines the See also:Gothic and Renaissance styles and contains the tombs of four members of the Gouffier family. These together with other parts of the chateau and church were mutilated by the Protestants in 1568. The park contains a See also:group of four dolmens. For the Oiron pottery see See also:CERAMICS.

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