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Village of Lourmarin stands on the soft slopes of a hill beyond the
southern side of the Luberon mountain. The village lays beside the great
way of communication, from which we can see it and the dark ridges of
the Luberon mountain in the background. Loumarin is listed amongst the
most beautiful village in France.
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for many villages in this part of Provence, some artists associated their
names to Lourmarin. The writer Albert Camus choosed this place as residence,
his remains are buried in the cimeterry of the village. Henri Bosco, another
writer, is also a famous 'lourmarinois"
Life in the village has not always been as peaceful as it looks today.The
Vaudois who settled there in the15th century and were at the start of
the development of the village. During the Wars of Religion in the 16th
century, Lourmarin was slaughted and the Vaudois cruelly persecuted.
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the temple built outside the village in 1816 give evidence of the maintenance
of an living protestant community.
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