Marcolès

Marcolès is a common French, located in the department of the Cantal and the area Auvergne.

Geography

Commune located in the Massif Central on the Rancid

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Born about 1310 in Marcolès: Jean de Roquetaillade, religious franciscain of the convent of Aurillac, visionary, alchemist and protestor of the papacy of Avignon. It left a rather considerable work on the stars, the sky, metals, medicine etc. He is the theorist of “quintessence”, subtle substance of all the minerals which he says to obtain by repeated distillations. He is the author of several works of predictions on the future of the Church and the political world of his time. He passed most of his life in religious prison and died in Avignon in 1364.

See too

Common of the Cantal

External bonds

Official site of the commune of Marcolès
Marcolès on the site of the national geographical Institute
Marcolès on the site of INSEE
Marcolès on the site of Quid
Localization of Marcolès on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Marcolès on Mapquest

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