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1. VALANJOU, France (Reuters) – The village church and its steeple have dominated the skyline of rural France for centuries, surviving feuding warlords, foreign invasion and the upheavals of the French Revolution.
2. In the quiet commune of Valanjou in the western wine–producing region of Anjou, mayor Bernard Briodeau is locked in a bitter battle with opponents who suspect him of plotting to rob their village of one of their three churches.
3. Feelings are also running high in Geste, a village around an hour‘s drive west of Valanjou which plans to spend 1.35 million euros replacing the bulk of its existing church with a new, more comfortable one built around the bell tower.
4. Look after churches or this young population which is the future of Valanjou?" At a cost of 285,000 euros ($40',500), Briodeau says he wants to remove the church‘s crumbling steeple and put a roof on its 14th century fortified bell tower, which was once guarded by a knight–at–arms to protect the village from marauding brigands.