People
- Pope Clement V died in Roquemaure Castle in 1314.
- Jacques Bridaine, a Roman Catholic preacher, was born in Chusclan in 1701 and died in Roquemaure in 1767.
- Louis Pierre de Cubières, a French naturalist, was born in Roquemaure in 1747 and died in 1821.
- Michel de Cubières, a French writer, was born in Roquemaure in 1752 and died in Paris in 1820. He was the brother of Louis Pierre.
- Placide Cappeau, (1808-1877) a French writer, was born and died in Roquemaure. He wrote Minuit, chrétiens (O Holy Night) (1847), which was set to music by Adolphe Adam. He also wrote a historic poem, Le Château de Roquemaure.
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“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession. It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you -for you were the fewest of all peoples.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 7:6,7.
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