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Lamballe
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Lamballe was the capital of the territory of the Counts of Penthièvre, who in 1569 were made dukes.
La Noue, the famous Huguenot leader, was mortally wounded in 1591 in the siege of the castle, which was dismantled in 1626 by Richelieu.
The last Duke of Penthièvre granted his son Louis the title Prince of Lamballe. The Prince de Lamballe married Marie Therese de Savoie-Carignan and she took the title Princesse de Lamballe. The Princesse lived with her father-in-law after the early death of her husband. She was a close friend of Queen Marie Antoinette and one of the most famous victims of the French Revolution.
Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie, hero of the American war of independence, died near Lamballe in 1793. Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's father was a Lamballe native of Breton descent.
On 1 January 2016 the former commune of Meslin was merged into Lamballe.
Crowning the eminence on which the town is built is a beautiful Gothic church (13th and 14th centuries), once the chapel of the castle of the counts of Penthièvre.
Of the other buildings, the church of St Martin (11th, 16th and 16th centuries) is the chief.
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