Languedocien
Languedocien (French name, ), Languedocian, or Lengadocian () is an Occitan language, Occitan dialect spoken in rural parts of southern France such as Languedoc, Rouergue, Quercy, Agenais and southern Périgord. It is sometimes also called Lang ...
Lot-et-Garonne
Lot-et-Garonne (, ) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne, it had a population of 331,271 in 2019.department in south-western
France
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. The village of Lauzun is located in the north of Lot et Garonne, in the
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nouvelle-Aquitaine () is the largest Regions of France, administrative region in France by area, spanning the west and southwest of Metropolitan France. The region was created in 2014 by the merging of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes ...
region. It is separated from
Périgord
Périgord ( , ; ; or ) is a natural region and former province of France, which corresponds roughly to the current Dordogne department, now forming the northern part of the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is divided into f ...
(Dordogne) by the river
Dropt
The Drot or Dropt () is a river in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. It is a right tributary to the Garonne. It is long.
Geography
The source of the Dropt is located near Capdrot in the Dordogne. The drainage basin covers the area between the rive ...
Lauzun's strategic hilltop position was the site of a
Gallo-Roman
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settlement, with a castle developed from the 6th century.
The de Caumont family were the lords of Lauzun from the 12th century until the French Revolution. The title Baron de Lauzun was elevated to become Comte de Lauzon from 1570 and Duc de Lauzun from 1692.
The Chateau de Lauzun was developed from the original medieval fortress as a
Renaissance
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palace, hosting visits from
Catherine de Medicis
Catherine de' Medici (, ; , ; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was an Italian Florentine noblewoman of the Medici family and Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King Henry II. She was the mother of French kings Franci ...
and her son, the future King Charles IX.
The church of St Etienne has a 15th-century Madonna & child sculpture, a 16th-century
polychrome
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When looking at artworks and ...
statue of Christ and a 17th-century altar and pulpit, commissioned by Nompar de Caumont, Compte de Lauzun, in 1623.
In 1793, Lauzun was made a district centre of the Lot and Garonne department, with a law court and a post office.
Berry
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Armand Louis de Gontaut-Biron
Armand Louis de Gontaut (), duc de Lauzun, later duc de Biron, and usually referred to by historians of the French Revolution simply as Biron (13 April 174731 December 1793), was a French soldier and politician, known for the part he played in ...
In the 2007 presidential elections, Lauzun voted narrowly for Segolene Royal (50.11%) ahead of the eventual victor,
Nicolas Sarkozy
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(49.89%).
In the 2012 presidential elections, Lauzun voted narrowly for
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( ; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. In 2021, he was found guilty of having tried to bribe a judge in 2014 to obtain information ...
Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department
The following is a list of the 319 communes of the French department of Lot-et-Garonne.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):