Today, the cathedral city of ANGOULÊME has a failing economy. The paper mills that dominated the town used to employ thousands of workers and bolstered the city's prosperity; now they are almost completely defunct. But in the past, the former capital of the Angoumois province was a much-coveted city, being heavily fought over during the fourteenth-century Anglo-French squabbles and again in the sixteenth century during the Wars of Religion, when it was a Protestant stronghold... [More]