Plou () is a

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in the

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'' in the

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Geography

An area of

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and

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comprising a small village and several hamlets situated some southwest of

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, at the junction of the D190, D114 and the D16e roads.

Population

Sights

* The church of St. Pierre, originally from the 11th century, was partly reconstructed after the English occupation during the

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. The interior wooden vaults date from the 11th century. * The ruins of a 14th-century castle, the

Château de Font-Moreau The Château de Font-Moreau (or Fontmoreau) is a ruined castle in the ''commune'' of Plou in the Cher ''département'' of France. The remains consist of the exterior fortifications, the keep and a tower.Ministry of CultureFortifications extérieure ...

. * The château of Castelnau at Brouillamnon was originally a wooden

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, rebuilt in stone around 1100. It was transformed into a

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home in 1541. In its present form, it dates from the 18th century.

Personalities

Théophile Marion Dumersan Théophile Marion Dumersan (4 January 1780, Plou, Cher – 13 April 1849, Paris) was a French writer of plays, vaudevilles, poetry, novels, chanson collections, librettos, and novels, as well as a numismatist and curator attached to the Cabinet ...

dramatist A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

, was born here on 4 January 1780.

References

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