Agenais
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By it the English king renounced his claim to Normandy, Maine, Anjou, Touraine, and Poitou, while Louis IX. ceded to Henry the Limousin, P�rigord, and part of Saintonge, besides the reversion of Agenais and Quercy.
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Bordelais, Bazadais, and parts of P�rigord and Agenais.
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The Journal de Lot et Garonne states that in the church of the Mas-d'Agenais, Count Eug�ne de Lonley has discovered, in the sacristy, concealed beneath dust and spiders' webs, the 'Dying Christ,' painted by Rubens in 1631.
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King John ceded Poitou, Saintonge, Agenais, P�rigord and Limousin to Edward III., and was offered his liberty for a ransom of three million gold crowns; but, unable to pay that enormous sum, he returned to his agreeable captivity in London, where he died in 1364.
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In the south this campaign marked real progress, not mere objectless plunder, for it was followed by the reconquest of great districts in P�rigord and the Agenais, which had been lost to England since the 13th century.
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