It is the capital of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, as well as the Hérault department.

It is surrounded by the departments of Pyrénées-Orientales, Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Tarn, and Hérault, with the Golfe du Lion on the east.

It is surrounded by the départements of Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot, Hérault, Gard, Lozère, and Cantal.

By road, Aigues-Mortes is about 35 km ( 21. 75 mi ) from Nîmes, préfecture ( administrative capital ) of the Gard département and 30 km ( 18. 65 mi ) from Montpellier, préfecture of the Hérault département.

Tarn is bounded north and east by Aveyron, southeast by Hérault, south by Aude, southwest and west by Haute-Garonne, northwest by Tarn-et-Garonne.

Hérault (; ) is a department in the south of France named after the Hérault river.

Hérault is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790.

The area of Hérault near the town of Lodève is an antipode point with Chatham Island, off the east coast of New Zealand.

Gard is part of the region of Languedoc-Roussillon and is surrounded by the departments of Hérault, Lozère, Aveyron, Bouches-du-Rhône, Vaucluse, and Ardèche.

The cheese is produced throughout the département of Aveyron and part of the nearby départements of Aude, Lozère, Gard, Hérault and Tarn.

Yet, trying to associate him with Vichy is inappropriate: he resigned from the Conseil National within a few months and refused any official position with the Vichy regime, such as the préfecture de l ' Hérault offered by Laval.

Cap d ' Agde () is the seaside resort of the town of Agde, France, on the Mediterranean sea in the département of Hérault, within the région of Languedoc-Roussillon.

It is a sub-prefecture of the Hérault department.

The grape is most widely found in south France, particularly in the Languedoc regions of Aude, Gard and Hérault where it is often made as Vin ordinaire and in some Vin de pays wines.

The Causse du Larzac is a limestone karst plateau in the south of the Massif Central, France, situated between Millau ( Aveyron ) and Lodève ( Hérault ).

The following is a list of the 343 communes of the Hérault département, in France.

Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone ( Occitan: Vilanòva de Magalona ) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France.

Sète ( ; Seta in Occitan ) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France.

Lodève ( Occitan: Lodeva ) is a commune in the Hérault département in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France.

Valleraugue is located in a deep valley of the Cévennes mountains, on the Hérault River.

By the law of 28 Pluviôse, Year 5, the departments of Hérault and of Tarn exchanged the canton of Anglès ( which had been part of the diocese of Saint-Pons, but which has remained in Tarn ) for that of Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare ( which had been part of the diocese of Castres, but which today remains in Hérault ).

* 68. 7 % of Languedoc-Roussillon was formerly part the province of Languedoc: the departments of Hérault, Gard, Aude, the extreme south and extreme east of Lozère, and the extreme north of Pyrénées-Orientales.

The following départements are generally considered as part of the Massif Central: Allier, Ardèche, Aude, Aveyron, Cantal, Corrèze, Creuse, Gard, Haute-Loire, Haute-Vienne, Hérault, Loire, Lot, Lozère, Puy-de-Dôme, Rhône and Tarn.

As an engineer ( polytechnicien ) who took part in the X-Crise Group, he was a socialist member of Parliament for Drôme and then Hérault from 1928 to 1936 and from 1937 to 1940.

Mallarmé did not chair the evening meeting of 1 June 1793 ( Henri Grégoire presided ) and chaired only the first part of the session of 2 June 1793, when Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles replaced him in chair until the end of the session.

In 1768, Clive lived for a time in the Chateau de Larzac near Pézenas in the Hérault département of the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France.

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert ( in Occitan Sant Guilhèm dau Desèrt ) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France.

Frédéric Bazille was born in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, into a wealthy Protestant family.

* Montpellier Hérault RC, Montpellier Hérault Rugby Club, a professional French rugby union, based in Montpellier the capital of Languedoc-Roussillon

* 55. 5 % of its former territory lies in the Languedoc-Roussillon région, capital city Montpellier, covering the départements of: Gard,: Hérault,: Aude,: Lozère, and the extreme-north of Pyrénées-Orientales, which account for 86. 5 % of the territory of Languedoc-Roussillon.

Montpellier Hérault Rugby Club is a professional French rugby union, based in Montpellier the capital of Languedoc-Roussillon.

Ganges is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France.

Valéry was born to a Corsican father and Genoese-Istrian mother in Sète, a town on the Mediterranean coast of the Hérault, but he was raised in Montpellier, a larger urban center close by.

* Maquis La Tourette in the Hérault created by Jean Bène

These were formed by accumulated sediments brought down by the rivers Aude, Orb and Hérault.

He produced the Registre des libérations du consulat provisoire ( 1894 ), and L ' Etat de la France en l ' an VIII et en l ' an IX, with the reports of the effects ( 1897 ), besides editing various works or memoirs written by men of the Revolution, such as JC Bailleul, Chaumette, Fournier ( called the American ), Hérault de Séchelles, and Louvet de Couvrai.

Cinsault appears to be an ancient variety that may have originated in the Hérault, but could equally have been brought by traders from the eastern Mediterranean.

In the 2005 – 2006 season, they reached the quarter – finals of the European Challenge Cup after finishing top of their pool with five wins out of a possible six, above Connacht, Montpellier Hérault and Amatori Catania, and faced an away match against Northampton Saints on April Fool's Day, which they won, in what was described by sports writers as some of the best rugby they have played all season.

The symbol of the city, the bronze Ephebe of Agde, of the 4th century BCE, recovered from the fluvial sands of the Hérault, was joined in December 2001 by two Early Imperial Roman bronzes, of a child and of Eros, which had doubtless been on their way to a villa in Gallia Narbonensis when they were lost in a shipwreck.

In Gaul they were divided into two tribes in widely separated regions, the Arecomici on the east, living among the Ligures, and the Tectosages ( whose territory included that of the Tolosates ) on the west, living among the Aquitanians ; the territories were separated by the Hérault River ( Arauris ) or a line between the Hérault River and the Orbe River ( Orbis ).

West of the Arecomici the Volcae Tectosages ( whose territory included that of the Tolosates ) lived among the Aquitanians ; the territories were separated by the Hérault River ( Arauris ) or a line between the Hérault River and the Orbe River ( Orbis ).

Vanessa Annelyse Ève Garcin ( born on 25 August 1980 Sète, Hérault, France ), better known by her stage name Ève Angeli is a French pop singer, who won an NRJ Music Award for Best New French Artist in 2000 – 2002.

The following is a list of the 49 cantons of the Hérault department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

Montpellier Hérault Sport Club was founded in 1919 under the name Stade Olympique Montpelliérain by the Association Générale Sportive Montpelliéraine ( AGSM ) (), which consisted of a handful of wealthy and ambitious citizens of Montpellier.