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Lauragais

Lauragais

Steeped in History, Soaked in Blood

by Colin Duncan Taylor
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/01/2019

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A journey through the past and present of a little-known area of south-west France.
Explores the people, places and events that shaped a land once too important to ignore.
A whole library has been written about the Lauragais in French, but virtually nothing in English.



The Lauragais lies in south-west France at the heart of Occitania. Today it is largely ignored by the millions who visit its neighbours each year - Toulouse and Carcassonne - but in times gone by it rarely escaped the attentions of the great and the good, or the ambitious and the avaricious.




This is a book with big characters - Simon de Montfort, the Black Prince, Thomas Jefferson and the Duke of Wellington among others - but most of all it tells the story of the people who have shaped this land, the living and the dead, families that have lived in the same house or village for hundreds of years. This is the story of their lives, their religion, their forgotten language and their environment.




On the autoroute, a journey through the Lauragais will take you three-quarters of an hour, but all you will see are tantalising glimpses of gorgeous countryside and distant signs of human habitation. In this book, the author takes you on a more leisurely trip through time in a land that is endearingly modest about its illustrious past.
ISBN:
9781789015836
9781789015836
Category:
European history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-01-2019
Publisher:
Troubador Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
216x138mm

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