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5 unusual facts about Vivarais


Charles Auguste de la Fare

Charles Auguste, marquis de La Fare, conte of Laugères, baron of Balazuc, was a poet and French memorialist born at Valgorge located in Vivarais in 1644 and died in Paris in 1712.

Kingdom of Arles

Between the 11th century and the end of the 14th century, several parts of Arelat's territory broke away: Provence, Vivarais, Lyonnais, Dauphiné, Savoy, the Free County of Burgundy, and parts of western Switzerland.

Louis Nicolas

Born August 15, 1634 in Aubenas, Vivarais (France), this Jesuit priest arrived in New France in 1664 and stayed for eleven years.

Treaty of Meerssen

Lothair II, his heir, received only the western Lower Burgundian parts (bishoprics of Lyon, Vienne, Vivarais and Uzès) which were bordering his western Upper Burgundy (remnants of his original Burgundian possessions), while Louis II received the whole rest of the Kingdom of Provence.

Vivarais

In feudal times part of the Holy Roman Empire with its bishop as a count, it became in 1309 one of the Capetian territories as included in Languedoc province of the French realm, and continued to be a French province until 1789.


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Almucs de Castelnau

It tells how Iseut begged Almucs de Castelnau to pardon Gigo (Gui), lord of Tournon (Tornon) in the Vivarais, Iseut's knight, who had committed "a great fault" against Almucs.

Lus-la-Croix-Haute

One of their principal vassals and feodal-lords was the family Odde de Bonniot, co-Lords notably of Vercors, chivalrous family originating of the Lus-la-Croix-Haute and its surroundings, which was deplaced to the region of Vivarais, to Orange, and to Velay and to the Netherlands (Holland) during the wars of religion in France.


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