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The name of the common drift of a name of anybody Gallo-Roman Nerius, with the suffix - acum. A Gallo-Roman villa located at Garenne was excavated there in 1832 pennies the direction of the sculptor-forger Maximilien Theodore Chrétin, who assembled the fable of an imperial city of the time of Tetricus with the complicity of Toulouse Of Mège. The apogee of the city is at XVIe century, when the lords of Albret, who had settled there towards XIe century (coming from Labrit, in the Moors) become kings de Navarre following the marriage of Jean III of Albret with Catherine de Foix in 1484. A little later their son Henri II of Albret marries in 1527 Marguerite of Angouleme, sister of François Ier, one of the first écrivaines in French language (Heptaméron). She attracts in Nérac of humanistic and the writers (Lefèvre d' Etaples, Marot). His/her daughter Jeanne d' Albret marries Antoine of Bourbon (1548) and converts with the Protestant religion. In the years 1530 and following, under the influence of Jeanne d' Albret, the population of Nérac converts with Protestantism, to be entirely huguenote at the beginning of the wars of religion[1 ]. Charles IX passes in the city at the time of his royal turn of France (1564-1566), accompanied by the Court and Large by the kingdom: his/her brother the duke of Anjou, Henri de Navarre, the cardinals of Bourbon and Lorraine[2 ]. In 1572, Jeanne d' Albret and Catherine de Médicis, respectively queen of Navarre (Protestant) and queen of France (catholic) marry their children: Henri III of Navarre and Marguerite de Valois (Margot Queen). Died not very front, Jeanne does not attend these "weddings of blood". It is possible that Catherine ordered the massacre of the Protestant heads the day of the Saint Barthelemy benefitting from their arrival in Paris but this assumption is prone to controversy. After this disastrous event, it retains her son-in-law in the Louvre until 1576. Released, it returns in Nérac and holds to with it in 1578-1579 with Catherine de Médicis the conferences from which the edict left Nérac. Later, Henri III of Navarre-Bourbon-Albret becomes king de France under the name of Henri IV, after Henri III died without descent (1589). One knows the formula of the interested one: "Paris is worth a mass well": when the doors of Paris opened to Henri, those of famous were closed again for Nérac. The city revolts under Louis XIII and is taken by Henri de Mayenne in 1621 and his fortifications rasées[3 ]. At the XVIIIe century, she knew an economic prosperity thanks to the trade of the flours-minots in direction of the "Isles of America" (Santo Domingo). At the XIXe century, it sees the beginnings of the Baron Haussmann who is a sub-prefect of 1832 to 1840, of the écrivaine George Sand and of Armand Fallières who was a mayor, general adviser and deputy of Nérac in the years 1871-1880.

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