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Langeais

Langeais is a small town on the Loire in the Indre-et-Loire department of central France, west of Tours. It has the ruins of one of the oldest stone keeps in France, built by Fulk Nerra in the late tenth century, and a castle rebuilt for Louis XI in the 1460s. In the castle Charles VIII married Anne of Brittany in December 1491.

Langeais
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