I have a vague memory that one of the differences between the two major mediaeval dialects of French was the word for yes, oc in the south, and oui in the north. Hence languedoc. I'm not sure what the connection with Occitan is. The modern name for the dialect?

There was a popular history of the Albigensian crusade back in the 1970s, called "Massacre at Montsegur" by Zoe Oldenbourg. That might tell you more, helen.

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