Lauzerte is in this archive for its events: 1 published here, with their dates.
What this page is
This page gathers what Cultural Heritage Online documents in Lauzerte, France: the entries are the ones already published, each with its own sources, its position and its photographs. It is the shortest way to everything we hold in the city, and it is updated as the archive grows.
Why visit
Lauzerte is the birthplace of Jean-Baptiste Rey, born on 18 December 1734. It is a bastide founded by Raymond VI of Toulouse in the Quercy Blanc, the southern part of Quercy.
Origins and history
Raymond VI of Toulouse, who already held a castle there, founded a bastide at Lauzerte and granted it customs. The town then lived through the Hundred Years' War and the wars of religion, so that its churches had to be rebuilt. During the wars of religion Symphorien de Durfort, sire de Duras, of the Huguenot party, took the town through a breach in the walls, at the site of the present rue de la Brèche, and all of its 597 inhabitants, men, women and children, were killed on the order of Duras. In the house of the merchants in the rue de la Gendarmerie the shops occupied the ground floor, selling the linen cloth of Quercy with spices from the Indies, or wheat and the wine of Cahors.
Key facts
- Country: France
- Region: Occitanie
- Places in this archive: 0
- Centre of the documented entries: 44.2567°N, 1.1383°E
What is on in Lauzerte
- Birth Anniversary: Jean-Baptiste Rey — December 18, 1734 — 18 December 2026
Sources
The dates and the titles above are our own record. The history on this page rests on the two sources listed.
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