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| At the beginning of the XIXth Century the city was a backwater, no more than an obsolete fortress with crumbling walls. The past had not yet come into its own and the city seemed condemned to oblivion. It consisted of an upper town (ville haute) perched on a hill which was difficult to reach, an old town (vieille ville) which contrasted in every way with the modern, bourgeois Lower town (ville basse) which was creeping across the plain on the other side of the river. |
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