Thérèse Humbert

female, deceased (1918)
Thérèse Humbert was a French female fraudster, who pretended to be an heir of an imaginary American millionaire Robert Crawford. Humbert was born Th...

François de Beaumont baron des Adrets

male, deceased (1587)
François de Beaumont, baron des Adrets was a Huguenot leader, notorious for his cruelty; he died a Catholic. He was born in 1512 or 1513 at the c...
André Dacier

André Dacier

male, deceased (1722)
André Dacier, was a French classical scholar. He was born at Castres in upper Languedoc. His father, a Protestant lawyer, sent him first to the a...
Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle

Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle

male, deceased (1717)
Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle (c.1661 - October, 1717) was a naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland, born Languedoc died Louisbourg....
David Beaton

David Beaton

male, deceased (1546)
David Beaton (c. 1494 - 29 May 1546) was Archbishop of St Andrews and the last Scottish Cardinal prior to the Reformation. He was a younger son of...

Michel Baudier

male, deceased (1645)
Michel Baudier, French historian, was born in Languedoc, during the reign of Louis XIII, and was historiographer to the Court of France. He...
Hubert Gautier

Hubert Gautier

male, deceased (1737)
Hubert Gautier was a French Engineer. He was born in Nîmes, France. In 1716, he wrote the first book on building bridges. Gautier initially t...

Étienne Moulinié

male, deceased (1669)
Étienne Moulinié was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Languedoc, and when he was a child he sang at the Narbonne Cathedral. Through the in...

Charles-Pierre-Gaston François de Lévis duc de Lévis-Mirepoix

male, deceased (1757)
Charles-Pierre-Gaston-François de Lévis, duc de Lévis-Mirepoix, maréchal de France (1757) and ambassador of Louis XV was a member of a house that...
Raimond-Roger Of Foix

Raimond-Roger Of Foix

male, deceased (1223)
Raimond Roger (died 27 March 1223) was the fifth count of Foix from the House of Foix. He was the son and successor of Roger Bernard I and his wife...