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Castres (Castras in the Languedocian dialect of Occitan) is a commune, and arrondissement capital in the Tarn department and Occitanie region in southern France. [1]

128 relations: Abbey, Agout, Albi, Albigensian Crusade, Ancient Diocese of Castres, André Dacier, André Le Nôtre, Anne Dacier, Arrondissements of France, Association football, Bernard Gui, Black Death, Boffille de Juge, Botanical garden, Butare, Camino de Santiago, Canton of Castres-1, Canton of Castres-2, Canton of Castres-3, Cardinal Richelieu, Castelnaudary, Castra, Castres Cathedral, Castres Olympique, Castres–Mazamet Airport, Charles Blanc, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Claude Puel, Clément Poitrenaud, Communes of France, Communes of the Tarn department, Counter-Reformation, Departments of France, Edict of Fontainebleau, Edict of Nantes, Edward the Black Prince, England, Francis I of France, Francisco Goya, Free company, French Guiana, French Revolution, Gare de Castres, Gaullism, Goya Museum, Guilhabert de Castres, Guillaume Borne, Guillotine, Hans Bellmer, Henry IV of France, ..., Hundred Years' War, Industrial Revolution, Jacques d'Armagnac, Jardin botanique Pierre Fabre "La Michonne", Jean Calas, Jean Jaurès, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Jean-François Champollion University Center for Teaching and Research, Jeanbon Saint-André, John II of France, John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Kees Meeuws, La Rochelle, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre, Languedoc, Languedocien dialect, Latin, Linares, Jaén, Louis XI of France, Louis XIII of France, Marseille, Martyr, Maryline Salvetat, Massif Central, Maurice Gabolde, Mazamet, Metres above sea level, Midi-Pyrénées, Montauban, Montpellier, National Convention, Occitan language, Occitania, Occitanie (administrative region), Order of Saint Benedict, Palace of Versailles, Paul de Rapin, Paul Pellisson, Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres, Pierre Camara, Pierre de Fermat, Pierre Fabre (businessman), Pierre-Paul Sirven, Pope John XXII, Prefectures in France, Protestantism, Provinces of France, Regions of France, Relic, Renaissance, Roger Peyrefitte, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Albi, Romanesque architecture, Rugby union, Rwanda, Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Sister city, Socialism, Socialist Party (France), Spain, Spanish art, Subprefectures in France, Tarbes, Tarn (department), Thoré, Toulouse, Tourism in Tarn, Trencavel, Union for a Popular Movement, Urban area (France), Vincent Baron, Vincent of Saragossa, Voltaire, Wakefield, World War I, Yannick Jauzion, 2007 Tour de France. Expand index (78 more) »

Abbey

An abbey is a complex of buildings used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.

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Agout

The Agout (Agot) is a long river in south-western France, left tributary of the Tarn River.

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Albi

Albi (Albi) is a commune in southern France.

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Albigensian Crusade

The Albigensian Crusade or the Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a 20-year military campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, in southern France.

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Ancient Diocese of Castres

The Catholic Diocese of Castres, in Southern France, was created in 1317 from the diocese of Albi.

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André Dacier

André Dacier (6 April 165118 September 1722), Latin Andreas Dacerius, was a French classical scholar and editor of texts.

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André Le Nôtre

André Le Nôtre (12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France.

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Anne Dacier

Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (born 1647? died 17 August 1720), better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier, was a French scholar, translator, commentator and editor of the classics, including the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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Arrondissements of France

An arrondissement is a level of administrative division in France.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Bernard Gui

Bernard Gui (1261 or 1262 – 30 December 1331), born Bernard Guidoni, also known as Bernardo Gui or Bernardus Guidonis, was a French inquisitor of the Dominican Order in the Late Middle Ages during the Medieval Inquisition, Bishop of Lodève, and one of the most prolific writers of the Middle Ages.

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Black Death

The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, the Black Plague, or simply the Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.

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Boffille de Juge

Boffille de Juge (died 1502), French-Italian adventurer and statesman, belonged to the family of del Giudice, which came from Amalfi, and followed the fortunes of the Angevin dynasty.

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Botanical garden

A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms botanic and botanical and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens.

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Butare

Butare is a city (population: 77,000 as of August 2002) in the Southern Province of Rwanda and capital of Huye district.

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Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana, "Pilgrimage of Compostela"; O Camiño de Santiago), known in English as the Way of Saint James among other names, is a network of pilgrims' ways serving pilgrimage to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the saint are buried.

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Canton of Castres-1

The canton of Castres-1 is an administrative division of the Tarn department, southern France.

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Canton of Castres-2

The canton of Castres-2 is an administrative division of the Tarn department, southern France.

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Canton of Castres-3

The canton of Castres-3 is an administrative division of the Tarn department, southern France.

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Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (9 September 15854 December 1642), commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu (Cardinal de Richelieu), was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman.

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Castelnaudary

Castelnaudary (Castèlnòu d'Arri) is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region in south France.

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Castra

In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (plural castra) was a building, or plot of land, used as a fortified military camp.

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Castres Cathedral

Castres Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Benoît de Castres), now the Roman Catholic church of Saint Benoît (Saint Benedict), is a historical religious building in Castres, Languedoc, France.

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Castres Olympique

Castres Olympique is a French rugby union club located in the Occitanian city of Castres and is currently competing in the top level of the French league system.

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Castres–Mazamet Airport

Castres – Mazamet Airport (Aéroport de Castres - Mazamet) is an airport serving Castres and Mazamet and the east of Midi-Pyrénées.

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Charles Blanc

Charles Blanc (17 November 1813, Castres (Tarn) – 17 January 1882, Paris) was a French art critic.

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

The Civil Constitution of the Clergy ("Constitution civile du clergé") was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that caused the immediate subordination of the Catholic Church in France to the French government.

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Claude Puel

Claude Puel (born 2 September 1961) is a French football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Premier League club Leicester City.

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Clément Poitrenaud

Clément Poitrenaud (born 20 May 1982 in Castres, Tarn) is a former French rugby union footballer.

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Communes of France

The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Communes of the Tarn department

The following is a list of the 319 communes of the Tarn department of France.

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Counter-Reformation

The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation or the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation, beginning with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' War (1648).

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government below the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the commune.

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Edict of Fontainebleau

The Edict of Fontainebleau (22 October 1685) was an edict issued by Louis XIV of France, also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

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Edict of Nantes

The Edict of Nantes (French: édit de Nantes), signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in the nation, which was still considered essentially Catholic at the time.

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Edward the Black Prince

Edward of Woodstock, known as the Black Prince (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376), was the eldest son of Edward III, King of England, and Philippa of Hainault and participated in the early years of the Hundred Years War.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Francis I of France

Francis I (François Ier) (12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was the first King of France from the Angoulême branch of the House of Valois, reigning from 1515 until his death.

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Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker.

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Free company

A free company (sometimes called a great company or grande companie) was an army of mercenaries between the 12th and 14th centuries recruited by private employers during wars.

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French Guiana

French Guiana (pronounced or, Guyane), officially called Guiana (Guyane), is an overseas department and region of France, on the north Atlantic coast of South America in the Guyanas.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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Gare de Castres

Castres is a railway station in Castres, Occitanie, France.

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Gaullism

Gaullism (Gaullisme) is a French political stance based on the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader General Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic.

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Goya Museum

The Goya Museum (in French: Musée Goya) is an art museum located in Castres, France.

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Guilhabert de Castres

Guilhabert de Castres (about 1165 – 1240) was a prominent Cathar theologian.

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Guillaume Borne

Guillaume Borne (born 12 February 1988 in Castres) is a French football player who currently plays for AS Beauvais.

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Guillotine

A guillotine is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading.

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Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s.

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Henry IV of France

Henry IV (Henri IV, read as Henri-Quatre; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithet Good King Henry, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610.

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Hundred Years' War

The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, over the right to rule the Kingdom of France.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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Jacques d'Armagnac

Jacques d'Armagnac (4 August 1477), duke of Nemours, was the son of Bernard d'Armagnac, count of Pardiac, and Eleanor of Bourbon-La Marche.

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Jardin botanique Pierre Fabre "La Michonne"

The Jardin botanique Pierre Fabre "La Michonne" (4 hectares), also known as the Conservatoire botanique Pierre Fabre, is a private botanical garden maintained by the nonprofit Institut Klorane.

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Jean Calas

Jean Calas (1698 – March 10, 1762) was a merchant living in Toulouse, France, who was tried, tortured and executed for the murder of his son, despite his protestations of innocence.

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Jean Jaurès

Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès, commonly referred as Jean Jaurès (3 September 185931 July 1914) was a French Socialist leader.

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Jean-de-Dieu Soult

Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia, (29 March 1769 – 26 November 1851) was a French general and statesman, named Marshal of the Empire in 1804 and often called Marshal Soult.

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Jean-François Champollion University Center for Teaching and Research

The Jean-Francois Champollion University Center for Teaching and Research (Centre universitaire de formation et de recherche Jean-François Champollion) is a French university, in the Academy of Toulouse.

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Jeanbon Saint-André

Jean Bon Saint-André (February 25, 1749December 10, 1813) was a French politician of the Revolutionary era.

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John II of France

John II (Jean II; 26 April 1319 – 8 April 1364), called John the Good (French: Jean le Bon), was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1350 until his death.

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John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier

Field Marshal John (Jean Louis) Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, (7 November 168028 April 1770) was a French-born British soldier.

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Jules Hardouin-Mansart

Jules Hardouin-Mansart (16 April 1646 – 11 May 1708) was a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architecture, representing the power and grandeur of Louis XIV.

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Kees Meeuws

Kees Junior Meeuws (born 26 July 1974) is a New Zealand former rugby union prop and current assistant coach of the Highlanders in the Super Rugby competition.

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La Rochelle

La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Laboratoires Pierre Fabre

Laboratoires Pierre Fabre is a French multinational pharmaceutical and cosmetics company.

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Languedoc

Languedoc (Lengadòc) is a former province of France.

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Languedocien dialect

Languedocien (French name) or Lengadocian (native name) is an Occitan dialect spoken in rural parts of southern France such as Languedoc, Rouergue, Quercy, Agenais and Southern Périgord.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Linares, Jaén

Linares is a city located in the Andalusian province of Jaén, Spain.

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Louis XI of France

Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called "Louis the Prudent" (le Prudent), was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1461 to 1483.

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Louis XIII of France

Louis XIII (27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1610 to 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.

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Marseille

Marseille (Provençal: Marselha), is the second-largest city of France and the largest city of the Provence historical region.

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Martyr

A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, "witness"; stem μάρτυρ-, mártyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, or refusing to advocate a belief or cause as demanded by an external party.

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Maryline Salvetat

Maryline Salvetat (born 12 February 1974) is a French cyclist born in Castres.

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Massif Central

The Massif Central (Massís Central) is a highland region in the middle of southern France, consisting of mountains and plateaus.

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Maurice Gabolde

Maurice Gabolde (27 August 1891, Castres – 14 January 1972, Barcelona) was a French jurist and politician.

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Mazamet

Mazamet (Languedocien: Masamet) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.

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Metres above sea level

Metres above mean sea level (MAMSL) or simply metres above sea level (MASL or m a.s.l.) is a standard metric measurement in metres of the elevation or altitude of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level.

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Midi-Pyrénées

Midi-Pyrénées (Occitan: Miègjorn-Pirenèus or Mieidia-Pirenèus; Mediodía-Pirineos) is a former administrative region of France.

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Montauban

Montauban (Montalban) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.

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Montpellier

Montpellier (Montpelhièr) is a city in southern France.

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National Convention

The National Convention (Convention nationale) was the first government of the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly.

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Occitan language

Occitan, also known as lenga d'òc (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, is a Romance language.

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Occitania

Occitania (Occitània,,,, or) is the historical region and a nation, in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language spoken, and where it is sometimes still used, for the most part as a second language.

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Occitanie (administrative region)

Occitanie (Occitània,, Occitània) is an administrative region of France that was created on 1 January 2016 from former French regions Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées.

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Order of Saint Benedict

The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB; Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti), also known as the Black Monksin reference to the colour of its members' habitsis a Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles (Château de Versailles;, or) was the principal residence of the Kings of France from Louis XIV in 1682 until the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.

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Paul de Rapin

Paul de Rapin (25 March 1661 – 25 April 1725), sieur of Thoyras (and therefore styled Thoyras de Rapin), was a French historian writing under English patronage.

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Paul Pellisson

Paul Pellisson (30 October 1624 – 7 February 1693) was a French author.

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Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres

Philip of Montfort (died 24 September 1270) was a French nobleman, Count of Squillace in Italy from 1266/68, then Lord of Castres in 1270.

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Pierre Camara

Pierre Camara (born 15 September 1965) is a retired French triple jumper, best known for his triple jump gold medal at the 1993 World Indoor Championships.

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Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat (Between 31 October and 6 December 1607 – 12 January 1665) was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and a mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality.

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Pierre Fabre (businessman)

Pierre Jacques Louis Fabre (16 April 1926 – 20 July 2013) was a French pharmaceutical and cosmetics executive and pharmacist, who founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre in 1962.

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Pierre-Paul Sirven

Pierre-Paul Sirven (1709–1777) is one of Voltaire's causes célèbres in his campaign to écraser l'infame (crush infamy).

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Pope John XXII

Pope John XXII (Ioannes XXII; 1244 – 4 December 1334), born Jacques Duèze (or d'Euse), was Pope from 7 August 1316 to his death in 1334.

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Prefectures in France

A prefecture (préfecture) in France may refer to.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Provinces of France

The Kingdom of France was organized into provinces until March 4, 1790, when the establishment of the department (French: département) system superseded provinces.

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Regions of France

France is divided into 18 administrative regions (région), including 13 metropolitan regions and 5 overseas regions.

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Relic

In religion, a relic usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangible memorial.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Roger Peyrefitte

Roger Peyrefitte (17 August 1907 – 5 November 2000) was a French diplomat, writer of bestseller novels and non-fiction, and a defender of gay rights.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Albi

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Albi (–Castres–Lavaur) (Latin: Archidioecesis Albiensis (–Castrensis–Vauriensis); French: Archidiocèse d'Albi (–Castres–Lavaur)), usually referred to simply as the Archdiocese of Albi, is a non-metropolitan archdiocese (one having no suffragan dioceses) of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in southern France.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Rwanda

Rwanda (U Rwanda), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Repubulika y'u Rwanda; République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in Central and East Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland.

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Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester

Simon IV (or V) de Montfort (– 25 June 1218), also known as Simon de Montfort the Elder, was a French nobleman and soldier who took part in the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) and was a prominent leader of the Albigensian Crusade.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

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Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste, PS) is a social-democratic political party in France, and the largest party of the French centre-left.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spanish art

Spanish art has been an important contributor to Western art and Spain has produced many famous and influential artists including Velázquez, Goya and Picasso.

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Subprefectures in France

In France, a subprefecture (sous-préfecture) is the administrative center of a departmental arrondissement that does not contain the prefecture for its department.

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Tarbes

Tarbes (Tarba) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France.

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Tarn (department)

Tarn is a French department located in the Occitanie region in the southwest of France named after the Tarn river.

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Thoré

The Thoré (le Thoré) is a long river in the Hérault and Tarn départements, southwestern France.

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Toulouse

Toulouse (Tolosa, Tolosa) is the capital of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the region of Occitanie.

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Tourism in Tarn

The Tarn department, is situated in the southwest of France.

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Trencavel

The Trencavel were an important noble family in Languedoc during the 10th through 13th centuries.

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Union for a Popular Movement

The Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un mouvement populaire; UMP) was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Socialist Party (PS).

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Urban area (France)

An aire urbaine (literal and official translation: "urban area") is an INSEE (France's national statistics bureau) statistical concept describing a core of urban development and the extent of its commuter activity.

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Vincent Baron

Vincent Baron was a French Dominican theologian and preacher.

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Vincent of Saragossa

Saint Vincent of Saragossa, also known as Vincent Martyr, Vincent of Huesca or Vincent the Deacon, the Protomartyr of Spain, was a deacon of the Church of Saragossa.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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Wakefield

Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Yannick Jauzion

Yannick Jauzion (born 28 July 1978 in Castres) is a French former rugby union footballer.

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2007 Tour de France

The 2007 Tour de France the 94th running of the race, took place from 7 to 29 July.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castres

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