Gignac, Hérault
Encyclopedia
Gignac is a commune
in the Hérault
département in Languedoc-Roussillon
in southern France
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Its inhabitants are called "Gignacois".
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Hérault
Hérault
Hérault is a department in the south of France named after the Hérault river.-History:Hérault is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...
département in Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc-Roussillon is one of the 27 regions of France. It comprises five departments, and borders the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne, Midi-Pyrénées on the one side, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean sea on the other side.-Geography:The region is...
in southern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Its inhabitants are called "Gignacois".
Sites
- Gignac BridgeGignac BridgeGignac Bridge carries the N109 road over the Hérault River, 1 km west of the town of Gignac in the Hérault département of France...
over the Hérault RiverHérault RiverThe Hérault is a river of southern France. Its length is . Its source is in the Cévennes mountains. It reaches the Mediterranean Sea near Agde...
, completed 1810. - Church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
- "Tour sarrasine" tower
Personalities linked to the commune
- Antoine de Laurès (1708–1779), writer, friend of VoltaireVoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
, translator into French of PharsaliaPharsaliaThe Pharsalia is a Roman epic poem by the poet Lucan, telling of the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pompey the Great...
by LucanMarcus Annaeus LucanusMarcus Annaeus Lucanus , better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba , in the Hispania Baetica. Despite his short life, he is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period...
(Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), and author of La fête de Cythère, a one act opera created on 19 November 1753 at the Château de Berny. He lived in the Château de Gignac.