- Lambesc
French commune
nomcommune=Lambesc
Convent Sainte-Thérèse in Lambesc
région=Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
département=Bouches-du-Rhône
arrondissement=Aix-en-Provence
canton=Lambesc
insee=13050
cp=13410
maire=Bernard Ramond
mandat=2001-2008
curé=Jean Luc Michel
intercomm=Pays d'Aix
longitude=5.2625
latitude=43.65472
alt moy=204 m
alt mini=111 m
alt maxi=482 m
hectares=6,534
km²=65.34
sans=7,934
date-sans=2004
dens=116
date-dens=1999Lambesc is a commune in the
Bouches-du-Rhône "département" in southernFrance . It is located nearSaint-Cannat andAix-en-Provence .History
In the 1st and 2nd century BC, the area was called "Oppidum Amboliacense" and it served as a marketplace for Greeks from
Marseille .In
124 BC , it was occupied by Romans, along with the rest ofProvence .In the Middle Ages, a castle and ramparts were built.
Under Louis XIV and Louis XVI, Lambesc was referred to as the "Versailles Aixois", because many political decisions were made there. Madame de Sévigné wrote a letter from Lambesc on
20 December 1672 and described the town in other letters.On
11 June 1909 an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter Scale, the largest ever recorded in metropolitan France, destroyed numerous houses in Lambesc. In the surrounding areas 46 people died, another 250 were wounded, and approximately 2,000 buildings were damaged.In 1944, a German munitions train at the Lambesc train station exploded, and several nearby houses were destroyed.
External links
* [http://www.ville-lambesc.fr/ Official website]
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002EGSGA..27.4825B Lambesc earthquake]
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