Brenda, this is the hotel where the town was surrounded by either a moat or a wall. Gary read this somewhere. It is also where you and Gary went to dinner by yourselves and had trout. I remember Debbie, Pam, John and I went around the corner and had a casual meal, sitting outside, adjacent to a town square barely inhabited by people. The town appears to be more built up since we were there.
Pérrone (Somme) was once a strongly fortified town and close to where the Battles of the Somme took place during World War I. The castle with its four round towers and the remains of the old town walls are still impressive. The Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Péronne (photo), slightly damaged in 1944, was built in thegothique flamboyant style. The Historial de la Grande Guerre museum contains modern multimedia displays which emphasize the role of the French army in World War I. The Musée Alfred Danicourt, founded in the Hôtel-de-ville in 1877, is the only museum of the Somme to have been pillaged and destroyed by the Germans between 1916 and 1918 losing about ninety-eight percent of its collection. Currently, it has one of the finest collections of early Gallic coins, antique gold jewelry, Merovingian funeral artifacts, a panorama of sand production during prehistoric times, and some local examples of 19th and 20th century paintings. The city of Péronne is equally known for its "Monument to the Dead", work of the architect Louis Faille, representing a Picardie woman with clenched fist raised above the body of her son or husband killed by the war. The Brittany Gate, with its strengthened stonework, is reminiscent of the defensive aspect of Péronne
