Languedoc-Roussillon is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016,it joined with the region of Midi-Pyrénées to become Occitanie. It comprised five departments,and bordered the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,Rhône-Alpes,Auvergne,Midi-Pyrénées towards the north,and Spain,Andorra and the Mediterranean Sea towards the south. It was the southernmost region of mainland France.
Gard is a department in Southern France,located in the region of Occitanie. It had a population of 742,006 as of 2016;its prefecture is Nîmes. The department is named after the Gardon River;the Occitan name of the river,Gard,has been replacing the French name in recent decades,both administratively and among French speakers.
A regional council is the elected assembly of a region of France.
Georges Frêche was a French politician. He served as President of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region from 2004 until his death:prior to that,he had been mayor of Montpellier for 27 years,and was also a former member (député) of the National Assembly. Frêche had been a member of the French Socialist Party until he was expelled on January 27,2007.
Le Cailar is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. It is located at the confluence of the River Vistre and the River Rhôny. It was an important port during the Iron Age at a time when lagoons connected to the Mediterranean Sea covered the adjoining low-lying land.
Jacques Blanc is a French politician and former senator for the Lozère department. He is also mayor of La Canourgue and president of the Aubrac-Lot-Causse communautéde communes. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
Christian Bourquin was a French politician,a member of the Socialist Party. He was the president of the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon from 2010 to his death in August 2014.
Louis Aliot is a French politician,a lawyer by profession,and the vice president of the National Rally since 16 January 2011. A member of the FN Executive Office,Executive Committee and Central Committee,Aliot has been a regional councillor since 1998 and a municipal councillor of Perpignan (2008–2009). Louis Aliot has been the mayor of Perpignan since 3 July 2020.
Damien Abad is a French politician of who has been serving as Minister of Solidarity in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne since 2022.
Occitania is the southernmost administrative region of metropolitan France excluding Corsica,created on 1 January 2016 from the former regions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. The Council of State approved Occitania as the new name of the region on 28 September 2016,coming into effect on 30 September 2016.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nîmes,France.
"Bastir!",originally the "Manifeste Occitaniste",now "Bastir Occitanie",is a pan-Occitanist movement mainly involved in French municipal elections of 2014,in French departmental elections of 2015,in French legislative elections of 2017 and in French regional elections of 2021.
The Revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers was a mass movement in 1907 in Languedoc and the Pyrénées-Orientales of France that was repressed by the government of Georges Clemenceau. It was caused by a serious crisis in winemaking at the start of the 20th century. The movement was also called the "paupers revolt" of the Midi. It was marked by the fraternization of the 17th line infantry regiment with the demonstrators in Béziers.
The Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is the deliberative assembly of the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Marie-Guite Dufay of the Socialist Party (PS) is the current president of the regional council,elected on 4 January 2016,following the regional elections on 6 and 13 December 2015.
The Regional Council of Grand Est,formerly the regional council of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine,is the deliberative assembly of the region of Grand Est. Jean Rottner of The Republicans (LR) is the current president of the regional council. He was elected on 20 October 2017,following the retirement of Philippe Richert on 30 September 2017.
Jean Robert François Matouk was a French economist,banker,and professor of economics.
The Regional Council of Pays de la Loire is the deliberative assembly of the French region of Pays de la Loire. The regional council is made up of 93 regional councilors elected for a period of six years by direct universal suffrage and chaired by Christelle Morançais (LR) since 2017. It sits in Nantes,at the Hôtel de Région.
The Regional council of Languedoc-Roussillon was the deliberative assembly of the former French region of Languedoc-Roussillon,local authority decentralized acting on the regional territory. It was headquartered in Montpellier,in a Hôtel built in 1988 by Ricardo Bofill,overlooking the Lez and the Place de l'Europe in the continuity of the Antigone district.
The Regional Council of Champagne-Ardenne was the deliberative assembly of the former region of Champagne-Ardenne incorporated in the Grand Est region on 1 January 2016. It was headquartered in Châlons-en-Champagne,at 5 rue de Jéricho at Hôtel de region de Champagne-Ardenne,from 1982 to 2015.
Hermeline Malherbe,born Hermeline Laurent on February 18,1969 in Carvin (Pas-de-Calais),is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party,she has been president of the departmental council of Pyrénées-Orientales since November 21,2010 and senator for Pyrénées-Orientales from 2014 to 2017,the day after the death of Christian Bourquin,for whom she was the substitute.
