Saint-Martin-de-Castillon (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint-Martin-de-Castillon is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region in southeastern France. The Vaucluse is a department in the southeast of France, named after the famous spring, the Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.Vaucluse was created on 8 December 1793 out of parts of the departments of Bouches-du-Rhone, Drome, and Basses-Alpes (later renamed Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). The then rural department was, like near by city of Lyon, a hot bed of the French Resistance in World War II and a short lived anti-Fascist state called the Vaucluse Republic occurred during the final years of the war.