Facts in brief:
Occupied by Arabs in 9th cen.; passed to counts of Albon 10th cen.; ceded to France 1349; suffered in Wars of Religion; rebelled against royal decree to limit powers of local parliament 1788; was site of French resistance movement during World War II.
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