Orléans

What this place is

• School or library — Theodulf's school and the scriptorium that produced the Theodulf bibles, and later the abbey of Fleury nearby, made Orléans a centre of text-correction rather than only of copying.

Who is recorded here

• Sigismund of Burgundy death · AD 524
• Robert II of France birth · AD 972

What happened here

• First Council of Orléans AD 511

In art

• View of the Sainte-Paterne Tower from a Window — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1830)
• Entry of Joan of Arc into liberated Orléans on 8th May 1429 — Hendrik Scheffer (1843)
• File:Orléans, l'automne est là !.jpg — Anthony Bourgouin

About the place

Orléans is a city in north-central France, about 120 kilometres southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the department of Loiret and of the region of Centre-Val de Loire.

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