=Périgueux.=--A historic city, founded in Gallo-Roman times; Cathedral of St. Front, with five domes, eleventh or twelfth century; ruined church at west end of earlier date; several old houses in the narrow streets. The Tour Mataquerre, of the fourteenth century, is a part of the ramparts; St. Étienne, formerly the cathedral, eleventh and twelfth centuries, with three domes; Roman amphitheatre of third century A.D., converted into a castle in twelfth century; Tour de Vésone, part of a Roman temple; Château Barrière has a Roman base; near it is a plain Roman arch, called the Porte Normande. =Lamonzie-Montastruc.=--Feudal château, chiefly of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Angoulême, like Poitiers, occupies an isolated tabular site raised above the Charente, and has beautiful views from the wide boulevards which encircle the town, where the ramparts and towers formerly stood. In medieval times the outline of the town must have been most imposing, with every tower, spire, and crenellation thrown up against the sky. To-day, although some towers have survived, there is no striking silhouette, and Angoulême has a spacious modern aspect, which even the cupolas and fantastic sculpture of its cathedral cannot alter. _The Cathedral of St. Pierre_ is an exceedingly interesting Romanesque-Byzantine building, begun in the eleventh century, and constructed mainly between 1110 and 1130. From 1630 to 1654 it underwent restoration, and recently Paul Abadie supervised the work which has robbed the building of some of its external picturesqueness. The western façade, however, remains, with all its carved detail, showing the ideas of the Last Judgment prevalent 800 years ago. Beyond the interest of the Romanesque architecture of the interior, there are on the north wall of the nave some restored inscriptions coeval with the building and the tomb of Philippe de Voivre, Marquis de Ruffec and Governor of Angoulême, who was assassinated in Paris in 1585. [Illustration: TOWN PLAN NO. 12.--ANGOULÊME.] Adjoining the cathedral is the _Évêché_, built at the same time, but restored at different periods, chiefly in the fifteenth century. It was lately bought by the town, and is to be converted into a museum and library. _The Hôtel de Ville_ was built between 1858 and 1866 by Paul Abadie, on the site of the old castle of the counts, and into it are incorporated two of its great towers. The earlier, called _le Tour Polygone_, was built by Hugues IV. (le Brun), who died in 1303, and the Tour de Valois, in which Marguerite de Valois was born, is a fifteenth-century work. At the present time the museums of painting and archæology are in the ground floor of the Hôtel de Ville. They are fairly interesting. The history of Angoulême is similar to that of Poitiers in the main events.