Montolieu
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Montolieu ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Langx) is a commune in the Aude department of southern France.
Village of booksEdit
Sometimes referred to as the "Village of Books", Montolieu contains fifteen bookshopsTemplate:As of?, mostly specializing in secondhand and antique books.<ref name="BBC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="travelandleisure">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Many artists also live and work in Montolieu, with five workshopsTemplate:As of? and galleries of painters and sculptors and three photographers' studiosTemplate:As of?. The commune also contains a cactus garden, the Cactuseraie d'Escaïre-Figue. In 1990, Michel Braibant, a bookbinder in Carcassonne, came up with the idea of a Village of Books in Montolieu, inspired by the Welsh Hay-on-Wye.<ref name="BBC" /> He created the association Montolieu Village du Livre and founded the Musée des Arts & Métiers du Livre ("museum of book arts & crafts).<ref name="travelandleisure" />
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