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Angouleme
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Today, the cathedral city of
ANGOULEME
has a failing economy. The paper mills that dominated the town used to employ thousands of workers and bolstered the city's prosperity; now they are almost completely defunct. But in the past, the former capital of the Angoumois province was a much-coveted city, being heavily fought over during the fourteenth-century Anglo-French squabbles and again in the sixteenth century during the Wars of Religion, when it was a Protestant stronghold. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, a good proportion of its citizens - among them many of its skilled papermakers - emigrated to Holland, never to return. Other useful information
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