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History of Gordes

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tion the resistance destroyed an other part of the village, including the notarial house with all the archives. All these destructions brought the municipality the sad privilege to appear amongst three "stricken cities" of the Vaucluse department. By war's end, thirteen persons were killed or executed in Gordes, twenty inhabitants fell under the enemy bullets and five inhabitants were deported out of the country.

After World War II

After a period of reconstruction, the village starts to attract artists like Marc Chagall or Jean Deyrolle who discover the village in 1947 and will drag there many of its artist friends like Serge Poliakoff, Vasarely, Dewasne, etc.

Armory

The primary ones are reported in 1696 in the Armorial Général de France and coming from the Gordes-Simiane family

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