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Chapter 07 · Evidence and preservation

How the guide checks Monpazier’s history

Authority comes from transparent sources, precise wording and the willingness to leave a question open when the evidence is incomplete.

Researched and written by Tony and Niki · Sources reviewed · Sources and corrections

This guide is designed as a dependable bridge between a visit, the archives and the statutory heritage record. Every important claim is tied to the strongest available source and stated no more strongly than that source allows; readers can then follow the references for the full evidence.

Stone and timber façade of the Maison du Chapître on Rue Notre-Dame in Monpazier
The Maison du Chapître illustrates the method: identify the building, check its official record, then distinguish recorded construction phases from its later protection date. Original Maison Sérénité fieldwork photograph.

The source hierarchy

Different sources answer different questions. The guide does not treat a tourism page, an inventory study and a statutory protection notice as interchangeable.

  1. Statutory records: the French Ministry of Culture’s POP platform is checked for the legal protection status, reference number, protected elements and designation history of a building or object. Mérimée records concern architecture; Palissy records concern movable objects. A POP notice is the controlling source for what is protected, but it may not provide a complete building history.
  2. Regional inventory research: the Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel brings together field observation, archives, cadastral evidence and architectural analysis. Its detailed Présentation de la commune de Monpazier is dossier IA24003002, researched by Baptiste Quost for the Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Commune de Monpazier.
  3. Municipal and practical sources: the Commune de Monpazier and Bastideum are used for local interpretation and visitor information. Time-sensitive details—opening, access, events and prices—must be checked again with the operator before a visit.
  4. Academic work: named scholarship is credited to its author. An academic interpretation is identified as such and does not replace a statutory notice.
  5. Field observation and original photography: photographs can establish what was visibly present when recorded and help identify a subject. They cannot, by themselves, prove a construction date, historic use or protection status.
  6. Recognition bodies: Les Plus Beaux Villages de France and Sites & Cités remarquables are used for their own labels, programmes and published descriptions—not as substitutes for the evidence above.

Four kinds of statement

Documented fact can be stated directly with a source. Interpretation identifies a scholarly or official assessment. Tradition is attributed as a story or local account. Unresolved marks a conflict or gap that must not be smoothed over for a cleaner narrative.

Words such as “probably”, “recorded as” and “principal construction campaign” are not weak writing. They preserve the meaning of the evidence.

See the method applied to legends, beliefs and genuine mysteries

Publisher, interests and corrections

This guide is published for Maison Sérénité by its owners, Tony and Niki. Maison Sérénité is holiday accommodation in Marsalès, and its owners have a commercial interest in helping visitors discover Monpazier and consider a stay nearby. That relationship is stated openly. Accommodation ownership does not confer historical authority, so factual claims are tied to the external records above and credited research remains the work of its named author or institution.

Readers who find a possible error, a changed visitor detail or stronger primary evidence can use the Maison Sérénité contact page. Please identify the page and statement and, where possible, include the source or record number. Confirmed corrections are carried through every affected language edition.

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The same evidence in six languages

Every language edition follows the same body of evidence, while the surrounding explanation is written naturally for its readers rather than translated word for word.

  • Dates, measurements, official record identifiers and source links remain consistent.
  • Qualifiers such as “probably”, “attributed to”, “tradition” and “unresolved” retain their meaning.
  • Titles, captions, alternative text, navigation and visitor guidance are written naturally in each language.
  • Official French place names and record titles are retained where translating them would reduce precision.

The figure of 32 monuments

The municipality, Bastideum and regional inventory report 32 protected buildings or monuments. The Ministry of Culture’s POP database currently exposes 30 individual PA monument notices for Monpazier, numbered PA00082653 to PA00082682, and two separate records for area-based protection.

Those are different counting frameworks. A PA notice records an individual protected monument or defined part of one; an SPR record concerns planning protection across an area. No primary source identified here explicitly reconciles the local total of 32 buildings with the 30 PA notices and two area records, so the figures are presented separately.

The protected-buildings register presents all 30 PA notices and identifies the two area records separately. The puits-lavoir and Fontaine des Amours remain worthwhile places to notice, but no controlling record has been found that would justify calling them protected monuments.

Why the figures remain separate
The local total of 32 and the Ministry’s 30 PA notices plus two area records use different categories. They are shown separately unless a primary source reconciles them.

Four protections and labels that should not be confused

  • Monument historique: statutory protection of an immovable building or specified elements, recorded in Mérimée with a PA reference.
  • Protected movable object: statutory protection of an object, such as Saint-Dominique’s stalls or liturgical furnishings, recorded separately in Palissy with a PM reference.
  • Protected urban area: the 1990 secteur sauvegardé and 1995 ZPPAUP belong to the history of area-based planning protection; POP now presents them as Site patrimonial remarquable records SPR7500068 and SPR7500067.
  • Recognition network: membership of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France is an important distinction, but it is not a statutory Monument historique designation.

A chronology of protection

1862Classification of Saint-Dominique.
1904Protection of several houses around Place des Cornières.
1929Registration of the Maison du Chapître.
1936Registration of fortified gates.
1960–1962Protection of the central hall, square and further groups of buildings.
1990–1995A secteur sauvegardé was created on 9 April 1990 and a ZPPAUP on 6 November 1995; POP now exposes these as separate Site patrimonial remarquable area records.

The role of the Bastideum

The Bastideum opened in 2013 in part of the former Récollets convent. It interprets the wider history of bastides through Monpazier and is the most appropriate local institution for visitors who want museum context. Current dates, prices and access arrangements should always be checked on its own website.

Principal online sources

Statutory protection records

Regional inventory research

Municipal interpretation and practical information

Academic study and institutional context

Questions the evidence does not yet settle

  • The exact reconciliation of the published 32-protected-building total with older itemised lists.
  • Modern address-to-cadastral matches for several house records.
  • Conflicting or simplified dates in general historical summaries.
  • Detailed construction phases of visible features not described in official summaries.
  • The original position and form of the earliest market hall.

Revision history

  1. Folklore and evidence update. Added the legends, beliefs and mysteries chapter; separated recorded tradition, belief and unresolved questions from documented events; expanded the evidence register and source catalogue.
  2. Sources and records review. Reconciled the 30 Monpazier PA notices with the two area-protection records, checked Saint-Dominique and Saint-Loup Palissy objects, and documented remaining uncertainties in addresses, routes and photographic identification.

Research register

Evidence behind the guide

Explore the guide’s key claims, their degree of certainty and the sources behind them. Each entry links the statement to its supporting records so the evidence can be checked independently.

39documented claims
71registered sources
30Monpazier PA notices
12Palissy object records
01Monpazier was founded in 1284 by Edward I, king of England and duke of Aquitaine, and Pierre de Gontaud, lord of Biron, on the Boursie holding in the parish of Notre-Dame de Capdrot.Monpazier · History · reviewed Verified record

Important qualification: The 1284 date belongs to the town’s foundation; it does not automatically date every surviving building or feature.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
02The original paréage agreement and original charter of customs are not known to survive; their contents are reconstructed from later notices and administrative records.Monpazier · History · reviewed Verified with qualification

Important qualification: No surviving source reviewed here provides verbatim charter clauses or a documented foundation ceremony.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
03Edward I visited Monpazier on 6 November 1286, when settlement was progressing with difficulty.Monpazier · History · reviewed Verified record

Important qualification: Later threatened fines against absent settlers are documented, but whether they were collected is not established.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
04In 1289, Monpazier’s documented détroit included the parishes of Capdrot, Marsalès, La Valade, Gaugeac and Saint-Cassien.Monpazier and Marsalès · History · reviewed Verified record

Important qualification: This was a medieval jurisdictional and economic relationship, not a merger of modern communes.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
05A 1365 count recorded 315 hearths and placed Monpazier among the six largest agglomerations in Périgord.Monpazier · Statistics · reviewed Verified with qualification

Important qualification: A hearth was a fiscal counting unit rather than a person, so it cannot be converted into an exact population without a stated method.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
06In 1490, the bishop of Sarlat authorised the chapter at Capdrot to transfer to Saint-Dominique in Monpazier; the chapter’s authority extended across 68 parishes.Monpazier · History · reviewed Verified record

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
07Buffarot, a leader of a Croquant revolt, was executed by quartering in Place des Cornières in 1637.Monpazier · History · reviewed Verified record

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
08The Nouvelle-Aquitaine inventory assesses Monpazier’s planned parcel pattern as remarkably regular and almost intact.Monpazier · Urban form · reviewed Attributed report

Important qualification: This assessment concerns the survival of the planned urban structure; it does not mean that every wall or building is medieval or unchanged.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
09The commune covers about 53 hectares, of which the densely built bastide occupies about 23 hectares.Monpazier · Geography · reviewed Verified with qualification

Important qualification: “About” matters here: these figures describe the studied urban area rather than precise visitor-route dimensions.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
10A 2019 architectural thesis describes the town as approximately 200 by 400 metres, with principal streets about 8 metres wide, cross streets about 6 metres, carreyrous about 2 metres, plots about 8 by 20 metres and the square about 40 by 48 metres.Monpazier · Urban form · reviewed Attributed analysis

Important qualification: These are approximate modern analytical dimensions, not measurements from a surviving medieval survey.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
11The municipality describes 23 porticoed houses around the square, while POP record PA00082674 states that 17 buildings with cornières survive.Monpazier · Architecture · reviewed Verified with qualification

Important qualification: The sources use different terms: “porticoed houses” and “buildings with cornières” are not necessarily the same counting category.

Known conflict or limit: The totals differ because the source categories differ; they cannot reliably be collapsed into one figure.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
12POP assigns the market hall a thirteenth-century principal construction campaign, while excavation placed the southern pillar of the present hall on a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century level and found earlier house and arcade foundations behind the current structure.Monpazier · Archaeology · reviewed Verified with qualification

Important qualification: The thirteenth-century principal campaign does not securely date the whole visible hall, every timber, or its exact present position.

Known conflict or limit: The regulatory record and excavation answer different questions, so both are needed to understand the hall.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
13Three fixed grain measures beneath the market hall are interpreted locally as holding two, four and eight boisseaux, using 12.5 litres for the local boisseau.Monpazier · Architecture · reviewed Attributed report

Important qualification: Historic capacities varied by place and period; 12.5 litres is not a universal French conversion.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
14Saint-Dominique has three nave bays and a five-sided transept and apse; municipal documentation gives approximate dimensions of 40 by 11.5 by 13.5 metres and describes construction campaigns from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth century.Monpazier · Architecture · reviewed Attributed report

Important qualification: The bastide’s foundation in 1284 does not automatically date every feature of the church.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
15Église Saint-Dominique was classified as a Monument Historique in 1862 under POP record PA00082653.Monpazier · Protection · reviewed Verified record

Important qualification: 1862 is the legal protection date, not the construction date.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
16Eight protected movable-object records are currently identified for Saint-Dominique: PM24000229, PM24000230, PM24000231, PM24000232, PM24000866, PM24000908, PM24001064 and PM24001065.Monpazier · Protection · reviewed Current detail — check before visiting

Important qualification: The objects have protection records separate from the church building. The stalls’ transfer is described as probable, and the reliquary contents as a belief.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
17POP currently exposes 30 individual Monpazier PA monument notices, consecutively numbered PA00082653 through PA00082682.Monpazier · Protection · reviewed Current detail — check before visiting

Important qualification: Thirty is the number of PA notices, not necessarily whole buildings; several notices protect only specified elements. It should not be described as 32 PA notices.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
18POP separately exposes two area-protection records: SPR7500068 for the secteur sauvegardé created 9 April 1990 and SPR7500067 for the ZPPAUP dated 6 November 1995.Monpazier · Protection · reviewed Current detail — check before visiting

Important qualification: SPR records concern protected areas; they are not two additional individual monument notices.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
19The municipality, Bastideum and regional inventory report a local total of 32 protected buildings or monuments.Monpazier · Protection · reviewed Unresolved

Important qualification: The figure is attributed to local and regional sources and remains separate from the present POP record structure.

Known conflict or limit: The published local total has not been explicitly reconciled record-by-record with 30 PA notices plus two non-building SPR area records.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
20PA00082679 records a fortified gate south of Rue Saint-Jacques, PA00082680 a gate north of Rue Saint-Jacques, and PA00082681 a northern gate opposite Rue Notre-Dame; all were registered on 16 October 1936.Monpazier · Protection · reviewed Verified record

Important qualification: The official records distinguish the northern and southern gates: PA00082680 is north of Rue Saint-Jacques, not opposite it.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
21PA00082682 protects a tower on the eastern ramparts, formerly parcel A 266, registered on 5 October 1961.Monpazier · Protection · reviewed Verified with qualification

Important qualification: The protected element is the tower, not every surviving section of wall; the record gives no construction century.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
22The municipality publishes the Boucle des remparts as an easy route of about 3 kilometres taking approximately one hour.Monpazier · Visitor route · reviewed Current detail — check before visiting

Important qualification: Route conditions, access and practical arrangements can change, so the current municipal route should be checked on the day of a visit.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
23POP coordinates in the Monpazier records have uneven precision and function as record-location centroids rather than verified visitor entrances.Monpazier · Source limitations · reviewed Verified with qualification

Important qualification: POP map points are record-location centroids, not verified entrances, gate passages or navigation instructions.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
24Monpazier has belonged to Les Plus Beaux Villages de France since the association was created in 1982.Monpazier · History · reviewed Verified record

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
25Municipal and departmental interpretation records a legend that people entered Monpazier through the Porte du Paradis at night and, after avoiding the authorities for a year, could claim the freedoms or privileges of a resident.Monpazier · Folklore and belief · reviewed Recorded tradition

Important qualification: The sources establish that the story is recorded as legend; they do not prove a one-year medieval rule, the alleged privileges or the opening’s original function.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
26The regional inventory records an oral tradition claiming that only ten inhabitants survived a plague episode in 1492.Monpazier · Folklore and belief · reviewed Recorded tradition

Important qualification: The ten survivors belong to an oral tradition, not a verified population count.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
27The national museum collection assigns the 5.6-centimetre Monpazier female statuette to the Gravettian; its first investigators found no indication of forgery but could not claim absolute certainty because it came from a ploughed surface rather than a sealed archaeological layer.Monpazier · Archaeology · reviewed Verified with qualification

Important qualification: The object’s original meaning is unknown; descriptions such as fertility goddess, pregnancy figure or talisman are interpretations rather than established facts.

Known conflict or limit: The contemporary paper dates the chance find to April 1970, while the current Joconde record displays April 1979 despite recording state acquisition in 1973.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
28The Ministry’s Palissy record describes a belief that Saint-Dominique’s small silver reliquary contains wood of the True Cross, while historical research records that Monpazier’s archpriest published letters in 1791 reporting two healings attributed to the relic.Monpazier · Folklore and belief · reviewed Recorded belief

Important qualification: The records document the object, devotion and historical claims; they do not authenticate the wood or establish a medical miracle.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
29A municipal publication reproduces named 1930 newspaper reports that a dromedary connected with an unauthorised Monpazier lottery was kept in the woods of Marsalès, frightened night walkers, damaged crops, was recaptured after a hunt and became the subject of a werewolf joke by Blaise Cendrars.Monpazier and Marsalès · Folklore and belief · reviewed Attributed report

Important qualification: The documented newspaper episode, the later monster story and Cendrars’s literary joke are distinct layers of the account.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
30INSEE records 223 residents, 119 households and a population density of 23.6 inhabitants per square kilometre for Marsalès in 2023.Marsalès · Statistics · reviewed Current detail — check before visiting

Important qualification: These figures refer to 2023 and should be checked against the latest INSEE release before later use; they are not timeless facts.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
31The current national Monuments Historiques export contains two protected-building records for Marsalès: Château de Marsalès (PA00082636) and Église Saint-Loup (PA00082637).Marsalès · Protection · reviewed Current detail — check before visiting

Important qualification: This count describes the current statutory register; other unprotected or locally recognised heritage may also exist.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
32Saint-Loup has principal twelfth- and seventeenth-century campaigns, a one-bay nave, north lateral chapel, semicircular choir and seventeenth-century bell wall; it was registered as a Monument Historique on 15 February 1974.Marsalès · Architecture · reviewed Verified record

Important qualification: The POP record establishes the heritage description, not present-day interior opening or public access.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
33Four protected movable-object records are currently identified for Saint-Loup: PM24001382, PM24001642, PM24001643 and PM24001646.Marsalès · Protection · reviewed Current detail — check before visiting

Important qualification: All four are registered as movable objects and are legally distinct from protection of the church building under PA00082637.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
34Château de Marsalès has fifteenth- and seventeenth-century campaigns; its façades and roofs, outbuildings and entrance portal on parcel AI 26 were registered as a Monument Historique on 29 November 1976.Marsalès · Architecture · reviewed Verified record

Important qualification: The property is private and the official record does not promise public access. It should be viewed only from lawful public rights of way.

Confidence: very high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
35Two Neolithic covered alleys of the Aquitaine type survive near La Borie Neuve; a 2021 authorised operation recorded Oustal del Loup no 2 as about 6.45 metres long and 0.60 metres wide on an approximately 0.80-metre-high mound.Marsalès · Archaeology · reviewed Verified with qualification

Important qualification: The deeper deposits were not excavated, Monument Historique protection has not been established, and ownership, access and visitor suitability remain unverified.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
36Oustal del Loup is conventionally understood as “the Wolf’s House”; historical research places comparable wolf-house names within a wider Périgord pattern of names imagining inhabitants for megaliths.Marsalès · Folklore and belief · reviewed Unresolved

Important qualification: The archaeology and traditional name are documented; the sources reviewed do not establish when or why the Marsalès monuments acquired the wolf name or support a specific local wolf legend.

Confidence: moderate

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
37An official heritage study cites documentary evidence describing Saint-Ales as ruined in 1023 and separately records a tradition that an earlier church sank into the ground around 1060–1070.Marsalès · Folklore and belief · reviewed Recorded tradition

Important qualification: The 1023 documentary reference is separate from the later sinking story, which the official study records as tradition rather than demonstrated subsidence.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
38Detailed narratives about a Marsalès fanum, a prehistoric cultural sequence, an Iron Age mine, a Roman fiscal estate and extensive Roman remains are present in local research but have not been verified in an identified modern official public archaeological record.Marsalès · Archaeology · reviewed Unresolved

Important qualification: The five-nave reconstruction appears as a proposal in the 1999 local study and is not part of the principal factual timeline. Its absence from public databases does not prove that it never occurred.

Known conflict or limit: The guide currently has no official excavation or inventory record that independently substantiates these detailed narratives.

Confidence: moderate

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record
39The Peyregude megalith promoted on the official tourism route is in Lavalade, not Marsalès.Marsalès · Geography · reviewed Verified with qualification

Important qualification: Peyregude belongs to neighbouring Lavalade, not Marsalès. Sources also differ between “cromlech” and “menhir”.

Confidence: high

Supporting sources

Link to this evidence record

Complete source index

The source catalogue distinguishes statutory records, official research, practical visitor information, academic work and local research. Inclusion records what was consulted; it does not give every source equal evidential weight.

Official inventories (5)
  1. Monpazier — rapport de présentation du plan de sauvegarde et de mise en valeur — French Ministry of Culture · accessed Includes the archaeological qualification concerning the present market hall and earlier foundations.
  2. Marsalès heritage study — French Ministry of Culture, DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine · accessed Separates the documentary reference to ruined Saint-Ales in 1023 from the later tradition that an earlier church sank into the ground.
  3. La vénus de Monpazier — French Ministry of Culture, POP Joconde · 50010009136 · accessed National museum collection record; the displayed discovery year conflicts with the contemporary 1970 publication and its own 1973 acquisition date.
  4. Présentation de l'opération d'inventaire de la commune de Monpazier — Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel · IA24003001 · accessed Defines the scope and method of the 2011–2014 inventory operation.
  5. Présentation de la commune de Monpazier — Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel · IA24003002 · accessed Baptiste Quost, 2011; principal synthesis for the commune, its documentary history and urban form.
Statutory and regulatory records (47)
  1. Immeubles protégés au titre des Monuments historiques — French Ministry of Culture / data.gouv.fr · accessed Current national export used to count protected-building records by commune; refreshed regularly.
  2. POP Mérimée record PA00082636 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082636 · accessed
  3. POP Mérimée record PA00082637 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082637 · accessed
  4. POP Mérimée record PA00082653 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082653 · accessed
  5. POP Mérimée record PA00082654 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082654 · accessed
  6. POP Mérimée record PA00082655 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082655 · accessed
  7. POP Mérimée record PA00082656 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082656 · accessed
  8. POP Mérimée record PA00082657 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082657 · accessed
  9. POP Mérimée record PA00082658 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082658 · accessed
  10. POP Mérimée record PA00082659 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082659 · accessed
  11. POP Mérimée record PA00082660 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082660 · accessed
  12. POP Mérimée record PA00082661 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082661 · accessed
  13. POP Mérimée record PA00082662 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082662 · accessed
  14. POP Mérimée record PA00082663 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082663 · accessed
  15. POP Mérimée record PA00082664 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082664 · accessed
  16. POP Mérimée record PA00082665 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082665 · accessed
  17. POP Mérimée record PA00082666 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082666 · accessed
  18. POP Mérimée record PA00082667 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082667 · accessed
  19. POP Mérimée record PA00082668 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082668 · accessed
  20. POP Mérimée record PA00082669 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082669 · accessed
  21. POP Mérimée record PA00082670 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082670 · accessed
  22. POP Mérimée record PA00082671 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082671 · accessed
  23. POP Mérimée record PA00082672 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082672 · accessed
  24. POP Mérimée record PA00082673 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082673 · accessed
  25. POP Mérimée record PA00082674 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082674 · accessed
  26. POP Mérimée record PA00082675 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082675 · accessed
  27. POP Mérimée record PA00082676 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082676 · accessed
  28. POP Mérimée record PA00082677 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082677 · accessed
  29. POP Mérimée record PA00082678 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082678 · accessed
  30. POP Mérimée record PA00082679 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082679 · accessed
  31. POP Mérimée record PA00082680 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082680 · accessed
  32. POP Mérimée record PA00082681 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082681 · accessed
  33. POP Mérimée record PA00082682 — French Ministry of Culture · PA00082682 · accessed
  34. POP Mérimée record SPR7500067 — French Ministry of Culture · SPR7500067 · accessed
  35. POP Mérimée record SPR7500068 — French Ministry of Culture · SPR7500068 · accessed
  36. POP Palissy object record PM24000229 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24000229 · accessed
  37. POP Palissy object record PM24000230 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24000230 · accessed
  38. POP Palissy object record PM24000231 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24000231 · accessed
  39. POP Palissy object record PM24000232 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24000232 · accessed
  40. POP Palissy object record PM24000866 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24000866 · accessed
  41. POP Palissy object record PM24000908 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24000908 · accessed
  42. POP Palissy object record PM24001064 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24001064 · accessed
  43. POP Palissy object record PM24001065 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24001065 · accessed
  44. POP Palissy object record PM24001382 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24001382 · accessed
  45. POP Palissy object record PM24001642 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24001642 · accessed
  46. POP Palissy object record PM24001643 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24001643 · accessed
  47. POP Palissy object record PM24001646 — French Ministry of Culture · PM24001646 · accessed
Official statistics (1)
  1. Comparateur de territoires — Commune de Marsalès (24257) — INSEE · COM-24257 · accessed Time-sensitive statistical release; record the reference year and recheck before publication updates.
Official archaeology records (2)
  1. Marsalès — Allée couverte Oustal del Loup n° 2 — ADLFI / French Ministry of Culture · operation 028177 · accessed
  2. Bilan scientifique régional Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2021 — Dordogne — French Ministry of Culture · Marsalès operation 028177 · accessed
Official visitor information (8)
  1. La préservation du patrimoine — Bastideum de Monpazier · accessed
  2. Balades et loisirs — Boucle des remparts — Commune de Monpazier · accessed
  3. Guide — Boucle des remparts de Monpazier — Commune de Monpazier · accessed Useful for the published route length and duration, but its printed start longitude is incompatible with Monpazier and must not be copied.
  4. Le patrimoine du village — Commune de Monpazier · accessed
  5. Le patrimoine religieux — Commune de Monpazier · accessed
  6. Monpazier heritage interpretation route — Département de la Dordogne · accessed
  7. La Boucle de Peyregude — Lavalade — Dordogne Périgord Tourisme · accessed
  8. Monpazier — Les Plus Beaux Villages de France · accessed
Official geographic records (1)
  1. Base Adresse Nationale search — Place du Foirail Nord, 24540 Monpazier — French national address service · accessed Address-geocoder result used to demonstrate the PDF longitude error; it is not a surveyed route start or entrance.
Academic research (2)
  1. La statuette féminine de Monpazier (Dordogne) — Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française / Persée · doi:10.3406/bspf.1970.4208 · accessed Jean Clottes and Élisée Cérou, 1970, pp. 435–444; contemporary publication on the find and authenticity assessment.
  2. Bastide City Territory: Landscape Infrastructure Design, Monpazier, France — London Metropolitan University · doctoral thesis (2019) · accessed
Local research (5)
  1. L’esprit Bastide n° 1 — Porte du Paradis — Commune de Monpazier · L’esprit Bastide n° 1 · accessed Municipal publication that explicitly labels the one-year Porte du Paradis account as legend.
  2. L’esprit Bastide n° 7 — Le dromadaire de Monpazier — Commune de Monpazier · L’esprit Bastide no. 7, winter 2024, final page · accessed Reprints Patrick Benne’s 2017 local research and named newspaper reports from February and March 1930.
  3. La commune de Marsalès — Groupe Archéologique de Monpazier · Cahier 09 (1999) · accessed Useful local research, but several archaeological narratives have not been independently verified in a modern official public record.
  4. Bulletin de la Société historique et archéologique du Périgord, 1950 — devotion to the True Cross at Monpazier — Société historique et archéologique du Périgord · BSHAP 1950-1, printed p. 39 (PDF p. 37) · accessed Records the archpriest’s 1791 publication of letters reporting two healings attributed to the relic.
  5. Bulletin de la Société historique et archéologique du Périgord, 1998 — traditional names for megaliths — Société historique et archéologique du Périgord · BSHAP 1998-1, p. 31 · accessed Places Oustal del Loup within a wider Périgord pattern of names that imagine inhabitants for megalithic stones; it does not establish one specific Marsalès legend.

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