translate English to French: The dramatic and memorable Ruins of Loropéni consist of imposing, tall, laterite stone perimeter walls, up to six metres in height, surrounding a large abandoned settlement. As the best preserved of ten similar fortresses in the Lobi area, part of a larger group of around a hundred stone-built enclosures, they are part of a network of settlements that flourished at the same time as the trans-Saharan gold trade and appear to reflect the power and influence of that trade and its links with the Atlantic coast.
Les spectaculaires et mémorables ruines de Loropéni consistent en des hauts murs impressionnants de moellons de latérite, allant jusqu’à six mètres de haut, entourant un grand établissement abandonné, sont les mieux préservés parmi les dix forteresses similaires que comporte la région du Lobi, et font partie d’un plus grand ensemble d’une centaine d’enceintes en pierre.