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Roussillon is the setting of Susan Vreeland's 2015 novel, Lisette's List, about a young couple who move from Paris to Roussillon in 1937 to live with the husband's aging grandfather, an ochre miner and pigment salesman, who owns several post-impressionist paintings. The village gave its name to a Michelin-starred restaurant in London. [5]
Roussillon (UK: / ˈ r uː s i j ɒ n / ROO-see-yon, [1] US: / ˌ r uː s i ˈ j oʊ n / ROO-see-YOHN, [2] French: ⓘ; Catalan: Rosselló ⓘ, locally; Occitan: Rosselhon) was a historical province of France that largely corresponded to the County of Roussillon and part of the County of Cerdagne of the former Principality of Catalonia.
The Étang de Thau (French pronunciation: [etɑ̃ də to]; Occitan: Estanh de Taur) or Bassin de Thau is the largest of a string of lagoons (étangs) that stretch along the French coast from the Rhône river to the foothills of the Pyrenees and the border to Spain in the Languedoc-Roussillon. Although it has a high salinity, it is considered ...
17.9% of Languedoc-Roussillon was formerly the province of Gévaudan, now the department of Lozère. A small part of the former Gévaudan lies inside the current Auvergne region. Gévaudan is often considered to be a sub-province inside the province of Languedoc, in which case Languedoc would account for 86.6% of Languedoc-Roussillon.
The Carnival of Limoux (French: Carnaval de Limoux) is an annual festival held in Limoux, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. It takes place for three months on the weekends between January and Mardi Gras and is conducted in Occitan, the area's traditional language. [1] [2] The festival is famous for its alternation of bands and pierrots.
The modern department was created early during the French Revolution on 9 February 1790 under the name of Roussillon, also the name of the pre-Revolutionary province of Roussillon to which it almost exactly corresponds, although the department also includes Fenouillèdes, a small piece of territory which had formerly been on the southern edge ...
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Le Péage-de-Roussillon (French pronunciation: [lə pe.aʒ də ʁusijɔ̃], literally The Tollbooth of Roussillon) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. [ 3 ] Le Péage-de-Roussillon has a train station on the line from Lyon to Valence. [ 4 ]