Meyrals is a

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in the

Dordogne Dordogne ( , or ; ; oc, Dordonha ) is a large rural department in Southwestern France, with its prefecture in Périgueux. Located in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region roughly half-way between the Loire Valley and the Pyrenees, it is named af ...

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in the southwest of France. Meyrals is in the

Périgord Périgord ( , ; ; oc, Peiregòrd / ) is a natural region and former province of France, which corresponds roughly to the current Dordogne department, now forming the northern part of the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is div ...

and, specifically, the Périgord Noir (Black Périgord), in

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Christophe de Beaumont Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire (19 June 1703– 12 December 1781) was a French cleric who belonged to a cadet branch of the Les Adrets and Saint-Quentin branches of the illustrious Dauphin family of Beaumont. He became Bishop of Bayonne in 17 ...

, (1703–1781), archbishop of Paris, was born in Meyrals.

Events

* ''Festival des épouvantails'' (Scarecrows) has been held every summer from 1999 to the present. * The village of Meyrals was the setting for the film "Périgord noir" (1988), with

Roland Giraud Roland Giraud is a French actor. He married actress Maaike Jansen in 1966. Giraud began his theatrical training in the 1960s and joined Coluche's theatrical company in 1971. Around this time he worked also with the troupe, Le Splendid. His fir ...

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Meyral has one

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: * - Bieuzy,

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