Roman-built medieval fortress city of Carcassonne (both UNESCO World Heritage Sites).

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These days, maritime-security providers operating off east Africa almost always make some use of weapons, says Didier Berra, a French army veteran who has worked for Secopex, a naval-security firm based in Carcassonne in France.

ECONOMIST: Piracy and private enterprise

Their mission was not to defeat the Black Prince, who went on to take their king prisoner at Poitiers, but instead to do battle with their compatriots in Toulouse and Carcassonne who had appropriated the recipe and, they believed, were ruinously altering it.

WSJ: A Cassoulet Worth Fighting Over