Albert Guillaume died during the occupation in the rural village of Faux in the Dordogne département of France in 1942.
According to his autobiography, he was born Aristide Pressman in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne in France, where his father, a Polish electrical engineer, had found work laying down power lines.
An Anglo-Gascon Army commanded by Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, defeated a French force under Henri de Montigny, Seneschal of Périgord, outside the walls of Bergerac, leading to the loss of the town.
Brantôme, Dordogne, a commune in the Dordogne département in central France
The closest occurrence of such rocks can only be found in the Sarrazac massif 25 kilometers farther to the eastsoutheast (near Saint-Paul-la-Roche, Jumilhac-le-Grand and Sarrazac), their geological setting being very different to that of the local granodiorite.
Charles Vaurie (7 July 1906, Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, France – 13 May 1975, Reading, Pennsylvania) was a French-born American ornithologist.
The Château de Puymartin is a castle in the commune of Marquay, France, located between Sarlat (8 km) and Les Eyzies (11 km), in the Dordogne department.
Domme, Dordogne, commune of the Dordogne département, in southwestern France
The title of Duc de La Force, pair de France was created in 1637 for members of the Caumont family, who were lords of the village of La Force in the Dordogne.
French News was a monthly newspaper, based in Périgueux, Dordogne, France, published in English and distributed mostly in France.
His best paintings were made in small towns such as Montreuil-sur-Mer (1892–94), Dieppe and surrounding villages from (1894–98), Quimperle in Brittany in (1901) and Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne in the Corrèze département (1903).
U-547 was damaged by a mine on 13 August 1944 in the Gironde (where the mouths of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers merge), near Pauillac in western France; she then retraced part of the route of her first patrol, arriving at Marviken in Kristiansand on 29 September and moving on to Flensburg on 4 October.
In 1953 Henghes moved to the Dordogne region of France where he was drawn by the discovery of Lascaux.
Jacqueline Robin (December 11, 1917 in Saint-Astier, Dordogne – February 3, 2007 in Taverny) was a French pianist.
The Nontron knife is a traditional wooden-handled knife manufactured in the village of Nontron in the Dordogne area of southern France, in a tradition said to date back to the 15th century.
A further raid in the Dordogne region in France located documents that detailed and proved the LSD business had been immense.
Plum Village Buddhist Center in the Dordogne region of France is established by TNH and Sister Chan Khong
The dolmen Peyre-Brune is situated next to a forest track leading from Seyssac, a little hamlet in the commune of Saint-Aquilin, to Segonzac.
Maine de Biran however -following the encounters with Stapfer at Auteuil and his own appointement as "sous-préfet" of the Dordogne in 1806- reformed the education in his department by inviting to Bergerac a teacher formed by Pestalozzi at Yverdon.
When Marillion were recording Brave at Miles Copeland's Chateau Marouatte in Dordogne in 1993, Copeland offered Rothery "a substantial sum" for recording an instrumental solo album on his label No Speak.
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Depicted by The Sunday Times, UK, as Northern France’s best kept secret, the Seven Valleys is also called the Artois Valleys abounding in “rolling contours, as green and bushy as anything you will come across in Dordogne”.
The Abri de la Madeleine (The Magdalene shelter) is a prehistoric shelter under an overhanging cliff situated near Tursac, in the Dordogne département and the Aquitaine Région of South-Western France.
The designation Cabanes du Breuil is applied to the former agricultural dependencies of a farm located at the place known as Calpalmas at Saint-André-d'Allas, in the Dordogne department in France.
Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang, a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France
Chancelade Abbey (fr: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Chancelade) was an Augustinian monastery in Chancelade in the Dordogne, founded in 1129.
The Château de Bellegarde is a 14th-century château located at Lamonzie-Montastruc in Dordogne in France.
On the wine trail between Bergerac (18 km) and Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (12 km), this castle is one of the most charming of South Bergerac, overlooking the Dordogne valley and surrounded by vineyards whose wine has an international reputation.
It is on the western edge of the département of Dordogne, 500 metres north-northwest of the town of Vanxains.
Château de la Roque, or the château de la Roque des Péagers, is a château located in Meyrals in the Périgord in the Dordogne, Aquitane, France.
The Château de Pécany is a castle located in the commune of Pomport, in the Dordogne Valley in France.
La Chapelle-Faucher is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.
The tor (tower, castle) that was Guilhem's birthplace does not survive, but it was in the vicinity of the modern town of La Tour-Blanche, Dordogne.
Garrow was arrested by Vichy French police in October 1941 and later interned at Mauzac (Dordogne).
Jean Carzou (1907, Aleppo, Syria – August 12, 2000, Marsac-sur-l'Isle, Dordogne, France), born Karnik Zouloumian, was a French Armenian artist, painter and illustrator, whose work illustrated the novels of Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus.
After the outbreak of the first world war he leaves the Union, only to be found again for six months in 1916 as the head of the Harmonie de Lalinde (Dordogne).
Château de Losse, an historical site in the Périgord, Dordogne district of South-West of France
It is named after the type site of La Madeleine, a rock shelter located in the Vézère valley, commune of Tursac, in the Dordogne department of France.
Lamothe-Montravel, a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in south-western France
Monsec, a commune of the Dordogne département, in France
Peyre-Brune is a Neolithic dolmen situated near Saint-Aquilin in the Dordogne, France.
During the 1970s Xenia and Geoffrey Tooth (b. 1 September 1908) settled at Rouffignac, in the Dordogne, France.
She was born on 30 May 1875 in Beyssac (Corrèze, France); she died on 6 November 1975 in Milhac d'Auberoche (Dordogne, France).
The main locations used for shooting the film were in and around Sarlat-la-Canéda in the Dordogne region of France.
The Plains of Passage describes the journey of Ayla and Jondalar west along the Great Mother River (the Danube), from the home of The Mammoth Hunters (roughly modern Ukraine) to Jondalar's homeland (close to Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France).
The Thiviers-Payzac Unit, sometimes still called Thiviers-Payzac Nappe or Bas-Limousin Group, was named after Thiviers and Payzac, two small towns in the northeastern Dordogne situated within the unit's outcrop area.
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Just northwest of Terrasson in the eastern Dordogne there is an upfaulted basement high, that is also included within the main unit.
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The unit starts just west of Thiviers in the northern Dordogne and then follows for 70 kilometres a semicircular arc segment, passing through Lanouaille, Payzac, Orgnac, Donzenac and finishing just east of Brive in the Corrèze.