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Leucate
Leucate (; oc, Leucata) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the lagoon Étang de Leucate. Geography Leucate is on the Mediterranean coast of France. It is part of the eastern Corbières Massif, which are called the Corbières maritimes. It is around south of Narbonne, and around north of Perpignan. On a clear day, the Phare du Cap Leucate offers a view over the French Mediterranean Sea from the Spanish border to the south to the Camargue to the east. Population Urban Morphology The town stretches over five tourist attractions, from north to south: * La Franqui, * Leucate village, * Leucate beach (Leucate plage) * The naturist village (Village naturiste) on the island of Correggio * Port-Leucate. Personalities * Henry de Monfreid, adventurer and author * Françoise de Cezelli (1558–1615) knight and French female war hero * André Héléna (1919–1972) author * Jacques Hiron author (fiction, comics, regiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Leucate (; oc, Leucata) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the lagoon Étang de Leucate. Geography Leucate is on the Mediterranean coast of France. It is part of the eastern Corbières Massif, which are called the Corbières maritimes. It is around south of Narbonne, and around north of Perpignan. On a clear day, the Phare du Cap Leucate offers a view over the French Mediterranean Sea from the Spanish border to the south to the Camargue to the east. Population Urban Morphology The town stretches over five tourist attractions, from north to south: * La Franqui, * Leucate village, * Leucate beach (Leucate plage) * The naturist village (Village naturiste) on the island of Correggio * Port-Leucate. Personalities * Henry de Monfreid, adventurer and author * Françoise de Cezelli (1558–1615) knight and French female war hero * André Héléna (1919–1972) author * Jacques Hiron author (fiction, comics, regiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phare Du Cap Leucate
The Phare du Cap Leucate is a lighthouse situated on the , located in the south-eastern part of the in the French Department Aude on the territory of the commune of Leucate. It was constructed in 1950 and illuminated in 1951. It is an automatic but guarded lighthouse; visits are not permitted. The tower is 19.4 m high. See also * List of lighthouses in France This is a list of lighthouses in France. It includes the French overseas territories. Metropolitan France French Overseas Departments and Territories * List of lighthouses in Guadeloupe * List of lighthouses in French Guiana * List of li ... Sources and references External links one more photo of the lighthouse Phare du Cap Leucate Buildings and structures in Aude Lighthouses completed in 1950 Lighthouses in France {{Europe-lighthouse-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aude
Aude (; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region and named after the river Aude (river), Aude. The departmental council also calls it "Catharism, Cathar Country" (French language, French: ''Pays cathare'') after a group of religious dissidents active in the 12th to 14th centuries. Its Prefectures in France, prefecture is Carcassonne and its Subprefectures in France, subprefectures are Limoux and Narbonne. As of 2019, it had a population of 374,070.Populations légales 2019: 11 Aude INSEE Aude is a frequent feminine French given name in Francophone countries, deriving initially from Aude or Oda, a wife of Bertrand, Duke of Aquitaine, and mother of Eudo, brother of Saint Hubertus. Aude was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étang De Leucate
Étang de Leucate or 'Étang de Salses is a lake in Pyrénées-Orientales and Aude, France. At an elevation of 0 m, its surface area is 54 km2. It has been designated as a protected Ramsar site since 2017. File:Étang de Salses-Leucate 01.jpg, View from East File:Étang de Salses-Leucate 02.jpg, View from West See also * Corbières Massif References Leucate Leucate (; oc, Leucata) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the lagoon Étang de Leucate. Geography Leucate is on the Mediterranean coast of France. It is part of the eastern Corb ... Gulf of Lion Ramsar sites in Metropolitan France {{Aude-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Hiron
Jacques Hiron (born 1946) is a former merchant turned journalist, and writer of popular science, fiction and graphic novels. He lives in Leucate Leucate (; oc, Leucata) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the lagoon Étang de Leucate. Geography Leucate is on the Mediterranean coast of France. It is part of the eastern Corb ... in southern France. Works Fiction/novels * ''Le Paquebots des Sables''. E-dite, Paris, 2002, ISBN 2- 84608-071-2. Popular science * Nöel Hautemanière and Jacques Hiron: ''Leucate : plein cadre; livre de photographies'' (Leucate: Full Size; Photo Album). Toreilles, 2004, . * Jacques Hiron: ''Il était une fois Leucate'' (Once Upon a Time There was Leucate). Leucate, Edition du Cap Leucate, 2005 (first ed. 1998 ). Graphic novels * ''La Foire aux frisés'' (The Curly Heads' Fair), Jean-Michel Arroyo (graphics), Jacques Hiron (script), 2003, , . * The scenario of the comic trilogy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise De Cezelli
Françoise de Cezelly (1558 – 16 October 1615) was a French war hero during the French Wars of Religion. She distinguished herself when the village of Leucate was besieged by Spanish forces allied with the Catholic League in 1590, after her husband, the governor, was captured and executed by the enemy. Life She was born in 1558 in Montpellier. She was the daughter of the director of the Bureau of Accounts of Montpellier and niece of the governor of Leucate. On 6 April 1577 she married Jean de Boursiez, seigneur de Pantnaut de Barri, with whom she had five children: Hercule, Anne-Françoise, Antoine, Paul and Frances. After the battle of 1590, King Henry IV made Françoise the governor of Leucate until her son Hercule came of age. She died in Montpellier in 1614, aged 56, and was buried next to her husband in the chapel of St. Anne Church of St. Paul of Narbonne. In 1899 a bronze statue of her by the sculptor Paul Ducuing was erected in the Place de la République in Leucate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Héléna
André Héléna (8 April 1919 - 18 November 1972) was a French writer who spent most of his life in Leucate (southern France) on the mediterranean coast. He was born in Narbonne and died at Leucate, aged 53. Bibliography *''Les flics ont toujours raison'' (Cops Can't be Wrong) *''Le Bon Dieu s’en fout'' (God doesn't Give a Damn) *''Le Goût du sang '' (The Taste of Blood) *''Le Baiser à la veuve'' (A Kiss for the Widow) *''Les Salauds ont la vie dure'' (Bastards are Hard to Kill) *''Les Clients du Central Hôtel'' (The Guests of the Central Hotel) *''Par mesure de silence'' (To Ensure Silence). Some of Héléna's novels were translated into English and German.''La Foire aux frisés'' de Jean-Michel Arroyo (Dessin) et Jacques Hiron (Auteur), , , page 15 , 2003 In France, Héléna's work had more or less fallen into oblivion outside of Leucate, until a comic strip by Jacques Hiron Jacques Hiron (born 1946) is a former merchant turned journalist, and writer of popular science, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry De Monfreid
Henry de Monfreid (14 November 1879 in Leucate – 13 December 1974) was a French adventurer and author. Born in Leucate, Aude, France, he was the son of artist painter Georges-Daniel de Monfreid and knew Paul Gauguin as a child. Monfreid was known for his travels in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa coast from Tanzania to Aden, Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula and Suez, that he sailed in his various expeditions as adventurer, smuggler and gunrunner (during which he said he more than once escaped Royal Navy coast-guard cutters). Life In 1911, following in the footsteps of Arthur Rimbaud, Monfreid went to Djibouti, then a French colony, in order to trade coffee. He built a dhow for himself and used it to cross the Red Sea. He had many adventures, eventually prospered, bought a house near the shore in Obock cove, and had a big dhow, the ''Altair'' ("Soaring Eagle"), built by a local shipyard. Towards the end of the war, he settled with his family in Obock, away from prying e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corbières AOC
Corbières is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) for wine in the Languedoc-Roussillon, France, and it is this region's largest AOC, responsible for 46 per cent of the region's AOC wine production in 2005. Red wine dominates the production in Corbières with almost 95 per cent, with 3.5 per cent rosé wine and 2 per cent white wine making up the balance.Syndicat de l'AOC Corbières: Les chiffres cles , accessed on October 27, 2011 is the most common grape variety. The AOC was created in 1985, covers of vineyards and produces an average of 554,000 hectoliters of wine per year, corresponding to 74 million bottles. Due to its si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitou AOC
Fitou ( oc, Fiton) is a large French wine appellation in Languedoc-Roussillon, France. The dominant vine variety is Carignan which has to constitute 40% of any blend. Grenache, Lladoner Pelut (the 'hairy' Grenache), Mourvèdre and Syrah are also often blended with it. Muscat de Rivesaltes AOC, a vin doux naturel, also comes from the region. Production area The production area covers the following communes of the Aude department: * Canton of Durban-Corbières : Cascastel-des-Corbières and Villeneuve-les-Corbières * Canton of Tuchan : Paziols and Tuchan * Canton of Sigean : Caves, Fitou, La Palme, Leucate Leucate (; oc, Leucata) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the lagoon Étang de Leucate. Geography Leucate is on the Mediterranean coast of France. It is part of the eastern C ... and Treilles See also * List of appellations in Languedoc-Roussillon References External links * {{offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of The Aude Department
The following is a list of the 433 communes of the Aude department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):BANATIC Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 3 July 2020. * *Communauté d'agglomération Le * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Narbonne
Le Grand Narbonne is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Narbonne. It is located in the Aude departments of France, department, in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie regions of France, region, southern France. It was created in December 2002. Its seat is in Narbonne.Fiche signalétique CA Le Grand Narbonne BANATIC Its area is 846.6 km2. Its population was 129,134 in 2017, of which 54,700 in Narbonne proper.Comparateur de territoire Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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