books.google.ca - Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half of the twelfth century, that city and its environs...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Ermengard_of_Narbonne_and_the_world_of_t.html?id=yMfpbeH1JEkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareErmengard of Narbonne and the world of the troubadours