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Tours — A city of the middle Loire, at whose gates stands the Plessis
A Loire city near which a mistrustful king built a château he never left again, and where he died guarded night and day. (Editorial synthesis)
Tours is located in Indre-et-Loire. (source: INSEE, Code officiel géographique)
Recorded person born in Tours: Honoré de Balzac.
2 people who died in Tours are recorded: Alcuin and Gregory of Tours.
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