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Indre-et-Loire

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Indre-et-Loire

Département in the Centre region of France; area 6,124 sq km/2,364 sq mi; population (1999 est) 554,000. The River Loire and its tributaries, principally the Indre, Cher, and Vienne, flow through it. The chief products are wine (Vouvray and Montlouis), wheat, barley, and fruit. There is some textile and paper manufacturing. The châteaux in the Loire valley attract many tourists. The administrative centre is Tours. Other towns include Chinon and Loches.

The chief districts are the Gâtine, a plateau of woods and plains north of the Loire; the Champagne, a chain of vine-clad slopes between the Cher and the Indre; the Veron, a district of orchards and vines between the Loire and the Vienne; the unproductive plateau of Sainte-Maure; and the marshy district of the Brenne.

Indre-et-Loire is formed from most of the former province of Touraine, and of parts of Anjou, Poitou, and Orléanais.
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31) Although many towns and villages increased their commitment to public relief to help the victims of the rural crisis - during the 1880s, for instance, a village of 700 in the Indre-et-Loire gave nightime refuge and public assistance to over 1,400 vagabonds in a six month period - most of France's largest cities did not.
Assistance and repression: rural exodus, vagabondage and social ... by Smith, Timothy B. / Journal of Social History
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