Carcassonne is a walled city of Languedoc that for centuries has symbolized the interior frontier of France: between the Capetian north and the Occitan south, between the langue d’oïl and the langue d’oc, between the crown and the kingdoms it devoured. In 1648 its name still evokes that past of resistance and subdued heresy.
| Type | Place |
| Region | Languedoc, France |
| Period | 1648, the Fronde |
| Spanish entry | Carcassone |
The Fronde
The city appears on the horizon of southern affairs. It is not the center of the parliamentary fighting, which takes place in Paris, but the noble networks of the south, including the Felón and the lords of neighboring counties, name it as a geographic reference and a point of passage. Whoever controls the cities of Languedoc controls the routes that feed Paris with wheat, salt and recruits.
The same city, two centuries later
The archive holds another entry for the same walled city: Carcasona, in the cycle of the Regulators, 1889. There the castle falls to devils of the Baatezu legion and the band frees it on its way to Paris. In that period the city is the seat of the Boreal Bank.