Histoire générale de Languedoc

The Histoire générale de Languedoc (abbreviated HGL) is a work on the history of the province of Languedoc, written and published during the first half of the 18th century by the Benedictine monks Dom Claude Devic and Dom Joseph Vaissète. It was later expanded by Alexandre Du Mège in the mid-19th century. Finally, it was completely revised and published by a team of scholars for the Privat publishing house at the end of the 19th century, and has been reprinted several times. Quotes The Provençal princes and lords who had repaired in large numbers during summer to the castle of Beaucaire, were celebrating divers festivals there. The king of England had appointed to be at this meeting in order to effect a reconciliation between Raymond, count of Narbonne, and Alphonso, king of Aragon: but, for certain reasons, the two kings failed to repair there; so that all these preparations were useless. The count of Toulouse made a present of a hundred thousand sous to a knight, named Raymond d'Agout; who, being very liberal, immediately distributed them among about ten thousand knights, who assisted at his court. Bertrand Raimband had the land around the castle ploughed, and sowed there thirty thousand sous in deniers. It is related that Guillaume Gros de Martel, who had three hundred knights in his train, had all his dishes roasted with wax-tapers. The countess d'Urgel sent a crown there, valued at forty thousand sous; and one Guillaume Mite, had he not taken himself away, would have been crowned king of all the merry-Andrews. Raymond de Venous had thirty of his horses burnt before the company, out of ostentation. Histoire générale de Languedoc (Paris, 1737), vol. iii, p. 37, an. 1172: the facts are taken from Gaufridus Vosiensis, p. 321. Reported in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith (New York, 1882), vol. i, p. 275 External links Encyclopedic article on Histoire générale de Languedoc on French Wikipedia Category:Histories Category:History of France