A view from the city...

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....in the year 1911, a committee was formed to save the city.  For one franc, one

could purchase a house for 99 years.  However, you had to restore it.  Slowly the

city come back to life.  It now has over 1100 residents and gets over 400,000

visitors a year. Several movies have been made here, "The Three Musketeers"

staring Michael York in 1973, is one of them.   Perouges was largely inhabited

by craftsmen by the twelfth century. The population was mainly comprised

of linen weavers and farmers. In perhaps the most notable single act in the

 history of Perouges France, Seigneur d’Anthon closed in the population of

the walled settlement to defend against the troops of the Archbishop of Lyon

 in 1167. This is notable and impressive because it was not 70 years

later that Perouges had earned communal freedom (1236).