Gignac (; ) is a commune in the

Hérault Hérault (; , ) is a departments of France, department of the Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Southern France. Named after the Hérault (river), Hérault River, its Prefectures in France, prefecture is M ...

département In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. There are a total of 101 ...

'' in the Occitanie

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in southern

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Population

Its inhabitants are called ''Gignacois''.

Sights

* Gignac Bridge over the river

, completed 1810. * Church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce * "Tour sarrasine" tower

Personalities

Antoine de Laurès Antoine de Laurès (30 November 1708, in Gignac, Hérault – 12 January 1779, in Paris) was an 18th-century French poet and playwright from Languedoc. He was a writer, translator into French of ''Pharsalia'' by Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), an ...

(1708–1779), writer, friend of

Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, philosopher (''philosophe''), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit ...

, translator into French of ''

Pharsalia ''De Bello Civili'' (; ''On the Civil War''), more commonly referred to as the ''Pharsalia'' (, neuter plural), is a Latin literature, Roman Epic poetry, epic poem written by the poet Lucan, detailing the Caesar's civil war, civil war between Ju ...

'' by

Lucan Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November AD 39 – 30 April AD 65), better known in English as Lucan (), was a Roman poet, born in Corduba, Hispania Baetica (present-day Córdoba, Spain). He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imper ...

(Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), and author of ''La fête de Cythère'', a one-act opera created on 19 November 1753 at the Château de Berny. He lived in the Château de Gignac.

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Official site
Communes of Hérault {{Hérault-geo-stub

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