Clément Cabanettes (14 August 1851 – 14 July 1910) was born in Ambec near the small town of

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in the southern

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'' of

Aveyron Aveyron (; ) is a Departments of France, department in the Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Southern France. It was named after the river Aveyron (river), Aveyron. Its inhabitants are known as ''Aveyro ...

. He is remembered for bringing forty families (164 men, women and children) from Aveyron to

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and founding the town of

Pigüé Pigüé () is a town in Argentina located in the Pampas, south-west of Buenos Aires. It was founded by 165 Occitan-speaking French immigrants from Aveyron (Avairon in occitan) and one Argentine of direct Irish descent on December 4, 1884. The u ...

, Saavedra in 1884.

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1851 births 1910 deaths People from Aveyron French emigrants to Argentina {{France-bio-stub