Bourgueil

Bourgueil (buʁɡœj) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Bourgueil AOC Bourgueil is an appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) for wine in the Loire Valley region, and produces primarily red wine from the grape variety Cabernet Franc. Bourgueil wine was mentioned in the works of François Rabelais. Bourgueil is served by the A85 autoroute, a nearby railway line and the cycling-route, Loire a vélo. Bourgueil was the birthplace of: Moses Amyraut (1596–1664), Protestant theologian and metaphysician Antoine Brutus Menier (1795–1853), chocolatier Jean Carmet (1920–1994), actor In Acadian Genealogy, Bourgueil is notable as the birthplace of Guillaume Trahan.

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The Loire (lwɑːr , USalsoluˈɑːr , lwaʁ; Léger ˈledʒe; Lêre; Liger; Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône. It rises in the southeastern quarter of the French Massif Central in the Cévennes range (in the department of Ardèche) at near Mont Gerbier de Jonc; it flows north through Nevers to Orléans, then west through Tours and Nantes until it reaches the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) at Saint-Nazaire.

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