Département de l'Aude

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Aude

Aude (French: [od]; Occitan: [ˈawðe]) is a department in south-central France named after the river Aude. The local council also calls the department "Cathar Country".

Aude is also a frequent feminine French given name in Francophone countries, deriving initially from Aude or Oda, a wife of Bertrand, Duke of Aquitaine, and mother of Saint Hubertus's brother Eudo. Aude was the name of Roland's fiancée in the chansons de geste.

Geography

Location

Aude is located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Pyrenees mountains.

It is part of the current region of Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées. It is surrounded by the departments of Pyrénées-Orientales, Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Tarn, and Hérault, with the Golfe du Lion on the east.

Natural regions

The countryside in this department falls into several natural regions:

  • 1 – Lauragais
  • 2 – Montagne Noire
  • 3 – Cabardès
  • 4 – Carcassonais
  • 5 – Razès
  • 6 – Quercorb
  • 7 – Pays de Sault
  • 8 – Minervois
  • 9 – Corbières
  • 10 – Narbonnais
  • Landscapes

    Each natural region of the Aude has its own particular landscape. In the east, lagoons or coastal lakes form a barrier between land and sea. These were formed by accumulated sediments brought down by the rivers Aude, Orb and Hérault. There are many such lakes of brackish water. This environment is demanding for flora and fauna, as it suffers from the rigours of sea, sun, dryness and floods. Halophile (i.e., salt-loving) plants grow there and it is also noted for animals such as the pink flamingo and white stilt.

    Aude (disambiguation)

    Aude is a department in south-central France named after the river.

    Aude may refer to:

  • Aude (character), the sister of Oliver and betrothed of Roland in "The Song of Roland" and other chansons de gestes
  • Aude, Estonia, a village in Nissi Parish, Harju County
  • Aude (river), a river of southwestern France
  • Lac d'Aude, a lake of southwestern France
  • 9117 Aude, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1997
  • People

  • Aude (writer), the pen name of Canadian writer Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot
  • Aude Moreau (born 1990), French football player
  • Dave Audé, American producer, house DJ and remixer
  • Erik Audé (born 1980), American actor, stuntman, and professional poker player
  • Jorge Aude (born 1946), Uruguayan former football player and manager
  • Rich Aude (born 1971), American former Major League Baseball player
  • Susan Audé (born 1952), American television news anchor
  • See also

  • Audes, France
  • Sapere aude ("dare to be wise"), a Latin phrase
  • Aude (character)

    Aude, or Alda, Alde, was the sister of Oliver and betrothed of Roland in The Song of Roland and other chansons de geste. The story of her engagement to Roland is told in Girart de Vienne.

    In The Song of Roland Aude is first mentioned by her brother Oliver when he tells Roland that the two will never be married, when the two counts are arguing before the battle; they are later reconciled, but both die fighting the Saracens. When Charlemagne returns to Aix and informs Aude that Roland has died, she collapses at the Emperor's feet and dies of grief.

    "The Lovely Alda" is part of Edward MacDowell's 1891 orchestral composition, Two Fragments after the Song of Roland.

    Aude (writer)

    Aude was the pen name of Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot (June 22, 1947 October 25, 2012), a Canadian writer from Quebec. She is most noted for her 1997 short story collection Cet imperceptible mouvement, which won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1997 Governor General's Awards, and her 1998 novel L'Enfant migrateur.

    Biography

    Born in Montreal, Charbonneau-Tissot studied French literature at the Université de Montréal and creative writing at Université Laval. A teacher at Cégep Garneau in the 1970s, she wrote frequently for the literary journal La Barre du jour and the lifestyle magazine Châtelaine.

    Over the course of her career, she published novels, short stories and a work of children's literature. In addition to her Governor General's Award win for Cet imperceptible mouvement, Jill Cairns won the John Glassco Translation Prize in 1999 for its English translation, The Indiscernible Movement.

    She was diagnosed with leukemia in 2005, and her writing slowed down considerably after the publication of her 2006 novel Chrysalide. Her final volume of short stories, Éclats de lieux, was published in 2012 just a few weeks before her death. She died on October 25, 2012 in Quebec City.

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