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It is conceivable that in France many cities have possessed as curious and picturesque alleys, such beautiful monuments, but modernism has gradually destroyed these treasures of the past.Became sub-prefecture, she slept for almost 150 years to revitalize only in 40 years. The disappearance of the diocese (attached to that of Périgueux) during the Revolution withdrew his preeminence. The architectural quality of its monuments and its buildings demonstrates its dynamism and its ability to remain in the mainstream economy. Sarlat was again occupied by troops of Conde. The Fronde ended this favorable period in 1652.The city, while playing the same role as before, had to go twice and suffer the abuses of captain Vivans and the Vicomte de Turenne. She rallied to the king of France ten years later when the constable of Guesclin drove the English. However, it became English after the Treaty of Brétigny in 1360.

and was able to rescue other cities besieged by the English Belvès, Domme Montignac. armed men of reserve of ammunition and food, the fortified town was also defended by the castles located nearby: Beynac, Castelnaud. Become episcopal city, Sarlat played a prominent role during the Hundred Years War. From the fourteenth century, bishops and consuls divided the power until the Revolution.The bishops, abbots replacing, began his architectural transformation that was completed only in the late seventeenth century. The abbey church became the cathedral of the diocese of Sarlat. In 1318, the abbey was the seat of the new diocese created by Pope John XXII. It was rebuilt in the Romanesque period between 11.