Polignac, Haute-Loire

Polignac (French pronunciation: [pɔliɲak]; Occitan: Panhac) is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.

It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association.

The town is dominated by the Forteresse de Polignac with its square donjon tower, 32 m tall.

The poetical illustration "The Church at Polignac" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon to a painting by James Duffield Harding was written during the imprisonment of Prince Polignac and his colleagues, after the French Revolution of 1830 (in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837).

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