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Soulatgé
appears in a document signed by Bernard de Soulatge in 1073 uniting
the abbey of Cubières (a neighbouring village) and that of
Moissac and Cluny. Soulatge is the former fief of the youngest branch
of the Peyrepertuse family, which also owned Cucugnan.
During
the Albigensian crusade, the seigneur of Soulatge was with Guillaume
de Peyrepertuse when he surrendered to Simon de Montfort in 1217.
He recovered his castrum in 1240 when he was granted a royal pardon.
In
the mid XIVth century, the Peyrepertuse family became seigneur of
Cucugnan and Soulatge. Although it no longer exists, there is evidence
that the castle was still standing in the XVIIth century, Bernard
de Montfaucon being born there in 1655.
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Bernard de Montfaucon
(1655 -1741)
This famous Benedictine
of the Congregation of Saint Maur wrote the fifteen-volume L'Antiquité
expliquée (Antiquity Explained), gathering together images in diagram
form of objects and monuments of the past. He was Louis XIV's confessor
and the founder of the Ecole des Chartres.
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