"Office de Tourisme du Pays d'Aurillac - Festival international de Théâtre de Rue d'Aurillac". Office de Tourisme du Pays d'Aurillac (in French). Retrieved...

of Saint-Romain, which holds the tomb of Charibert II, king of Aquitaine, and son of Clotaire II. Nearby, Fort Paté, on an island in the river, and Fort...

is the environmentalist Pierre Hurmic. Bordeaux is the capital of five cantons and the Prefecture of the Gironde and Aquitaine. The town is divided into...

part of the commune is part of the Landes de Bordeaux. Early in World War II (June 22, 1940), the town was the scene of a quadruple execution on the firing...

the birthplace (in 946) of the prolific scholar Gerbert d'Aurillac, who became Pope Sylvester II, the first of the French popes. Communes of the Cantal...

astronomy. An early student of such learning was Gerbert d'Aurillac, the later Pope Sylvester II. Saint Hildegard (Hildegard von Bingen, 1098–1179), depicted...

In 1308, Pope Clement V resided at the château de Lormont where Richard II was born, the son of the "Black Prince" in 1367. The town prospered and lived...

relic of St. John the Baptist at the time of that saint's death. Pope Urban II (1088–99) preached the crusade at Bazas. Bazas was a subprefecture until 1926...

professor at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Occitania Félibrige Pope Sylvester II Auvergne (province), the historical independent county and later French province...

Quat'Sos, which was begun by Louis VIII of France and completed by Henry II of England. The south-western tower, called "la Thomasse", still looks over...