Elizabeth Medora Leigh, (15 April 1814 – 28 August 1849)
was the third daughter of Augusta Leigh.
However, she was as well the "natural" daughter of the great British poet Lord Byron, George Gordon Byron, meaning fathered by her mother's half brother…

Romans, who were great colonizers of Provence, the Rhone Valley and the province of Narbonne, brought along the first vines to be planted in south west France…

Eastern civilizations practiced monasticism long before the birth of Jesus Christ…

Bournazel is considered one of the most beautiful Renaissance châteaux in south of France…

Restoring a piece of art gives an opportunity to enter past life(s), to reveal quite a few unknown facets. It is always a very delicate operation, exciting and quite often full of surprises…

Born in 1823 in Saint-Léons, Aveyron, of modest extract, Jean-Henri Fabre became one of the greatest naturalists of all time…

Before the Roman conquest, the Rouergue—a tiny bit larger than the actual Aveyron département—was populated by the Rutheni and called their idol Ruth, a sort of Celtic Venus whose cult still existed during the 5th century of our era…

What does say the Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Water, a book written in 1870 by the famous Jules Verne?…

Scholars, archaeologists, and now the general public have been fascinated for almost 150 years by these standing stones—megaliths—also known as "statues-menhir"…

During 148 years—from 1643 to 1791—the Carladès County was a dominion of the Monaco Princes…

The A of Charlemagne, a quite poetic naming given to this odd artifact, one of the multiple treasures to be found and admired at the Abbey-Church Sainte-Foy at Conques…

Aveyron is a well-known "département" in regards to its minerals' wealth and its very diversified landscapes…

Guillaume-Thomas Raynal (1713-1796), an Aveyron native, was a precursor of the fight against slavery, a promoter of human rights, but also the prophet of the American Revolution…

Pigüé, which means 'gathering place' in Mapuche tongue, is home to a community originally coming from Aveyron…

Pierre Soulages, a French abstract and contemporary artist of international renown was born in Rodez in 1919…

This is the oldest Cistercian abbey in Rouergue…

The year is 1798, and farmers in the south of France, precisely Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance in Aveyron, on the hunt for a predator, instead find a naked young boy, presumably grown up in the wild without human contact…

Emma Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Époque. She had an international career, singing regularly at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and the Royal Opera House, London…

Although better known as the commander of the forces in north America during the Seven Years' War, seldom are the ones knowing Montcalm had strong Aveyron roots…

Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg do not hesitate to hail Farrebique as a reference…

This is not a scholarly dispute to be resolved, but merely a curiosity pointed out by the locals, probably to amuse themselves at our expense…