Montpellier
About Montpellier
Montpellier is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the department of Hérault. As of 2023, 310,240 people live in the city proper, while its metropolitan area has a population of 813,272 as of 2020. Montpellier is the third-largest French city near the Mediterranean coast, behind Marseille and Nice, and the seventh-largest city of France overall. The inhabitants are called Montpelliérains.
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The first public parachute jump, as far as we know, was done by Louis Sebastian Lennemond in Montpellier in France. His very first jump was off a tree holding two umbrellas.
from No Such Thing As The Loch Ness Monster, 2014-04-18 at 00:27:09 · read transcript
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The number one person that people prayed to most was St. Rita, who is the patron saint of lost causes. She was always invoked in really difficult situations by Catholics quite a lot. There was another one, St. Roch of Montpellier, and he was prayed to because he got the plague and then he got better. Whenever he went anywhere in Europe, the plague would suddenly disappear from wherever he went, according to the stories.
No Such Thing As An Alexa In Heaven, 2022-07-22 · listen
The number one person that people prayed to most was Saint Rita, who is the patron saint of lost causes. She was always invoked in really difficult situations by Catholics quite a lot. There was another one, Saint Roche of Montpellier, and he was prayed to because he got the plague and then he got better. Whenever he went anywhere in Europe, the plague would suddenly disappear from wherever he went, according to the stories.
436: No Such Thing As An Alexa In Heaven, 2022-07-22 · listen
Let's be. She's not getting any fitter. I read this on the website of James Madison's Montpellier, which is a plantation house of the Madison family. The anecdote comes from someone who was talking about the guided tour that they'd been.
No Such Thing As A Pastronaut, 2026-05-28 · listen
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