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- Country
- France
- Region
- Occitania
- Department
- Hérault
- Arrondissement
- Béziers
- Canton
- Cazouls-lès-Béziers
- Intercommunality
- CC Les Avant-Monts
- Mayor 2020 2026
- François Anglade
- Area
- 16.39 km (6.33 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 1,815
- Density
- 110.7/km (286.8/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 34130 /34480
- Elevation
- 117–228 m (384–748 ft) , (avg. 140 m or 460 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Laurens
- Demonym
- Laurentiens
- Population
- 1815
- Area
- 16.39
- Elevation
- 169
- Official website
- www.mairie-laurens.fr
- Image
- Laurens (34) rue chateau.JPG
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- postal code
- 34480
- Commons category
- Laurens (Hérault)
- Commons gallery
- Laurens (Hérault)
- male population
- 821
- female population
- 881
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-4-67-90-28-02
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Travel guide
Understand
Laurens is named after the somewhat misguided early American luminary Henry Laurens who rather indulged in owning slaves for his personal wealth. Laurens was close to the Patriot-won Battle of Musgrove Mill during the Revolutionary War, and then proceeded to become a place of pro-secessionist sentiment in advent of the Civil War from all of the cotton plantation inhabitants later on. It has been the home of a number of other well-known people like Andrew Johnson, for instance, who briefly worked as a tailor there. Moreover, it has nearly a treasure trove of historic homes and churches.
Get in
Laurens is just off of I-385 south of Greenville.
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Laurens ( French pronunciation: [lɔʁɛ̃s]; Languedocien: Laurenç) is a commune in the Hérault département in the Occitanie region in southern France.
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