Mareuil (;

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: ''Maruelh''), known locally as Mareuil-sur-Belle, is a former commune in the

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department in

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in southwestern

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. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune

Mareuil en Périgord Mareuil en Périgord (, literally ''Mareuil in Périgord''; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Departments of France, department of Dordogne, southwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2017 by the merger of former co ...

.Arrêté préfectoral
26 September 2016 It was the birthplace of the troubadour

Arnaut de Mareuil Arnaut de Mareuil (''fl.'' late 12th century) was a troubadour, composing lyric poetry in the Occitan language. Twenty-five, perhaps twenty-nine, of his songs, all '' cansos'', survive, six with music. According to Hermann Oelsner's contribution t ...

and of historian Michel Tardieu (born 1938).

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