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Max
May 26, 2025
Mountain biking
The pond covers an area of 2,000 hectares and is shared between the communes of Marseillette, Aigues-Vives, Saint-Frichoux, and Puichéric. It once supplied the region with fish. As early as …
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August 29, 2025
Enduro Mountain Biking
The dried-up pond of Marseillette is an atypical site in our region. To learn about and understand it, we must go back to the Tertiary period. At that time, the …
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August 29, 2025
Enduro Mountain Biking
Second Period
In 1759, Roudil de Berriac, Lord of Ranchin and Mayor of Carcassonne, committed to draining the Marseillette Pond within eight years. In 1760, he obtained exclusive rights to drain the pond through a decree of King Louis XV's Council.
The pond was acquired in 1778 by an engineer and member of the Toulouse Academy of Sciences, Monsieur de Garipuy, who had traveled to Holland to study the drainage project. Upon his death, the pond was purchased by Madame Riquet de Caraman on behalf of the owners of the Canal du Languedoc.
In 1759, Roudil de Berriac, Lord of Ranchin and Mayor of Carcassonne, committed to draining the Marseillette Pond within eight years. In 1760, he obtained exclusive rights to drain the pond through a decree of King Louis XV's Council.
The pond was acquired in 1778 by an engineer and member of the Toulouse Academy of Sciences, Monsieur de Garipuy, who had traveled to Holland to study the drainage project. Upon his death, the pond was purchased by Madame Riquet de Caraman on behalf of the owners of the Canal du Languedoc.
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