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Château De Ranton - The Hundred Years' War
... Curçay-sur-Dive were re-built that of Ranton by Guillaume de Bois Gourmont and that at Curçay by Huet Odart, both under instructions from Jean II they were part of an elaborate network of fortresses that ensured ... at Ranton was only one of those rebuilt by Guillaume de Bois Gourmont the largest was that at Bois Gourmont, near Veniers, just north of Loudun, of which only the ruined keep now remains ... In 1345, Jeanne Gourmont, daughter of Guillaume de Bois Gourmont married Jean de la Jaille ...

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    “Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.”
    —Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

    “This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)