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Peyriac-Minervois
Peyriac-Minervois (Peiriac de Menerbés in occitan) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. Historically and cultually speaking, the commune is in the Minervois country, a land of rolling hills with a reputation for its wine production. Peyriac-Minervois is under a mediterranean climate and is drained by the Argent-Double river. Peyriac-Minervois is a rural commune of 1 177 inhabitants in 2020, that has lived a great population increase since 1975 thanks to its position in Carcassonne's area of attraction. Points of interest include Peyriac's castle and historical centre, the Argent-Double river's banks, as well as the monument to peace and to Louis Barthas's work. Population Notable residents * Louis Barthas (1879–1952), socialist, anti-militarist, barrelmaker and World War I diarist * Hippolyte Babou (1824-1878), journalist, critic and novelist Gallery See also *Communes of the Aude department The following is a list of the 433 communes of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Barthas
Louis Barthas (; 14 July 1879 – 4 May 1952) was a French infantry corporal who served on the Western Front of World War I for nearly the entire duration of conflict, stationed on the front lines for a significant amount of time. He was a politically active socialist, an anti-militarist and a professional barrelmaker. Barthas extensively documented his wartime experiences. After the war, he set out to compile these into a series of notebooks, forming a single comprehensive manuscript. He did not think to have them published, and the notebooks were kept in the back of a drawer for the next couple of decades. His grandson, a teacher at a secondary school in Carcassonne, consigned the notebooks to a colleague history teacher who used them in his curriculum. Word of mouth brought renewed attention to Barthas' manuscript, and in 1978, sixty years after the war, it was published as ''Poilu: the World War I notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, barrelmaker, 1914–1918''. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
