France, Rhone, Val d'Oignt, village of Oignt, restored, XII c., donjon, art shops, craft shops, cement animals, hilltop,

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Val d'Oignt is a small hilltop town in the Rhone District. In Medieval times it was fortified and a castle tower, now a museum, remains. It was also home to a cloistered order one of the members of which was Marguerite D'Oignt, the first French woman writer of note.

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Location: Val d'Oignt, a small, medieval, hilltop town in the Rhone Department of France
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