“Beaugency. L’évolution d’une ville en Val de Loire”

Like many other towns in the Loire Valley, Beaugency went through a period of considerable prosperity during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as is evidenced by such major monuments as the donjon, the bridge, Notre-Dame church, the Tour du Change and the Town Hall. Edifices on a more modest scale – houses, shops, squares, marketplaces cemeteries, port and mills – also help us understand how the town was occupied, enlarged and laid out over the course of the centuries. 

Putting local facts and figures into a wider, regional and national context, the work complements the series of urban heritage studies that has been appearing since the 1990s. 

Text: Daniel Bontemps and Jacques Asklund
Photographs: Mariusz Hermanowicz, François Lauginie and Robert Malnoury 

Editions Lieux Dits - March 2013
272 pages 

€27 

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