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Hout a single drawing being made of the portal, which was in perfect
preservation. The only voice raised to save this monument of a past art
found no echo, either in the town itself or in the department. Though
the castle of Issoudun has the appearance of an old town, with its
narrow streets and its ancient mansions, the city itself, properly so
called, which was captured and burned at different epochs, notably
during the Fronde, when it was laid in ashes, has a modern air. Streets
that are spacious in comparison with those of other towns, and
well-built houses form a striking contrast to the aspect of the
citadel,--a contrast that has won for Issoudun, in certain geographies,
the epithet of "pretty." In a town thus constituted, without the least
activity, even business activity,