Sejourneur- Place Pey-Berland
Cafe terrace facing a soaring Gothic bell tower named for the archbishop who paid for it.
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This guide to Place Pey-Berland in Bordeaux asks why the square carries the name of a man who spent twenty years fighting to keep Bordeaux out of France. You'll follow archbishop Pey Berland through the last stretch of the Hundred Years War, backing English rule from the 1430s, reading the English king's letters from the cathedral pulpit, and sailing to England himself in 1442 to beg for reinforcements. On the first of November 1450, French troops routed Bordeaux's defenders on a day locals came to call the Male Journade, the bad day.
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