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675 Appalachian Music Trails; Loire Valley Chateaux; Achtung Baby

Travel with Rick Steves

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The Chateaus of France

Back in the 14 hundred, chateaus were defensive castles. But overtime, the chateaus became just luxury ting lodges. You'll have to wait until the seventeenth century for royal power to actually go back to the ille de france around paris. So you move from a defensive place to a residence place to a pleasure place.

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