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Place Plumereau, Tours, is a very old and very popular meeting place in the centre of the old town of Tours capital of the Loire Valley.

One of the most interesting parts of old Tours is the Quatier Plumereau. Place Plumereau, named after Charles Plumereau, advisor to the town of Tours, is the busiest and most picturesque part of Tours, with its mediaeval houses and cafés. Surrounded by timbered and half timbered houses dating from the 15th and 16th century.
	The atmosphere in this lovely old square is wonderful, usually full of tourists and students eating and dirnking and just talking to each other. This day in summer 1998 we were treated to some brilliant blues music!
The gabled houses which line the square include the Hotel Babou de la Bourdelaisière named after the finance minister for François I.	Place Foire le Roi was granted a permit by the king in 1545 to hold fairs; silk sold here was key to the town’s economy.
There is an interesting half timbered house at no. 39 rue Colbert which bears a sign indicating the shop where Jeanne d’Arc bought her suit of armour before setting out to liberate Orléans.	On the corner of rue de Maillé is the house which Balzac had chosen to house his character - the silk colourer - in Contes drolotiques.
Rue Constantine This road marks the edge of the area destroyed during the second world war,on one side is the mediaeval quatier, on the other buildings have been reconstructed in the 1950s. It is here that the silk workers were installed, called by Louis XI in1470.
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