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CORDES

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 138 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORDES  , a

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town of
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southern France, in the department of Tarn, 15 M . N.W. of
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Albi by road . Pop . (1906) 1619 . Cordes, which covers the
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summit and slopes of an isolated hill, was a bastide founded by Raymond VII., count of Toulouse, in the first
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half of the 13th century . It preserves its
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medieval aspect to a remarkable degree, a large number of houses of the 13th and 14th centuries, with decorated fronts, forming its chief attraction . A church of the same periods and remains of the
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original ramparts are also to be seen .

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