Lalinde (; ) is a commune in the

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department in

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in southwestern

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. It lies on the river

and was enclosed within fortified walls of which little remains today. Lalinde station and Couze station have rail connections to Bordeaux, Bergerac and Sarlat-la-Canéda.

History

In its past, it was a strategically important military site being the first "English

bastide Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the 13th and 14th centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the first bastides ...

town"; it suffered various sieges during the

Hundred Years' War The Hundred Years' War (; 1337–1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of France, France and a civil war in France during the Late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes over the Duchy ...

and again in 1562 and 1572 during the Wars of Religion. The train station was built in 1877 and the bridge over the Dordogne River in 1880, though there are signs of earlier crossings including a ford going back to Roman times. In 1944 the local Resistance paid a heavy price when on 21 June many of Lalinde's sons perished in the Mouleydier massacre. On 11 July 1964, during the 19th stage of the

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, the worst accident in the history of the Tour took place. A tanker driven by a gendarme ran into spectators at a narrow bridge crossing the Lalinde canal at Port-de-Couze. Nine people died and another 13 were injured. (The casualty figures in this early report were provisional.) A stone marker commemorates the event.

Population

Twin towns

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* Linden *

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References

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St Colombe Church in Lalinde
Communes of Dordogne {{Bergerac-geo-stub

History

Population

Twin towns

See also

References

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