Pont-de-Ruan
Encyclopedia
Pont-de-Ruan is a commune
in the Indre-et-Loire
department in central France
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It is known for picturesque water mills and goat cheese, and Balzac
champions its beauty in The Lily of the Valley
.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Indre-et-Loire
Indre-et-Loire
Indre-et-Loire is a department in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers.-History:Indre-et-Loire is one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...
department in central France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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It is known for picturesque water mills and goat cheese, and Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
champions its beauty in The Lily of the Valley
Le Lys dans la vallée
Le Lys dans la Vallée is an 1835 novel about love and society by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac . It concerns the affection — emotionally vibrant but never consummated — between Felix de Vandenesse and Henriette de Mortsauf...
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See also
- Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department