My Life in Languedoc #6

In March 2011 I returned to Languedoc a month earlier than my usual date, April Fools Day in order to join a month long residential French course. It was taking place in the little village of Cucugnan on the southern edge of the Corbières where the border of Languedoc meets the Roussillon. The Roussillon was part of Catalonia until the treaty of the Pyrenees signed on November 7th 1659. That put an end to thirty years of war between Spain and France making all the fortified structures ranging along the old border defunct.

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