The history of Languedoc-Roussillon has been marked by some significant individuals.
Sébastien Le Prestre, titled Marquis de Vauban, was a military engineer who served under King Lou...
The painter and architect Eugène Viollet le Duc painted and travelled widely in the Pyrenées, dis...
Saint Louis came to Aigues-Mortes twice, in 1248 and 1270, before leaving on Crusades.
The story begins in 1885 when a certain Béranger Saunière was nominated at the head of the parish...
Guillaume de Grimoard was born 1310 in the Château de Grizac, sited on the commune of Bédoues.
Ingenious inventor and visionary, and born in Béziers, Pierre-Paul Riquet was sufficiently passio...