From welcoming crews to finding sets and promoting local professionals the 32 French local film commissions are responsible for organising everything that is involved in filming in France Here is a closer look at the unfamiliar role they play in the regions of France which hosted the filming of Nos cérémonies (by Simon Rieth) was one of twenty-four present at the 75th edition of the Cannes Festival day out to promote France as a location for filming but also to optimise the economic and cultural impact filming has on the regions And it was increased to 40% in 2020 for fiction films for which the amount spent on the production of visual effects on French soil is at least two million euros 92 foreign projects benefited from the TRIP Providing advice on financial support from local authorities helping to obtain filming permits or even identifying unusual locations is what the film commissions do on a daily basis they compete to find ingenious ways to adapt to requests in order to inspire filmmakers' imagination For the filming of Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk in 2016 Pauline’s region lent the commission of the Hauts-de-France region (Northern France) the Maillé-Brézé for three months - a unique former wartime escort ship that was transformed into a museum in 1988 and has been moored on the Quai de la Fosse in Nantes since According to the head of the film commission "moving the ship and getting it to move to the north of France" was a major challenge The Maillé-Brézé leaving Saint-Nazaire for Dunkirk © Presse Océan "And we train them to host film shoots." The old town of Le Mans particularly the Cité Plantagenêt district They come here to shoot period films and to recreate medieval Paris "It's almost like an open-air studio," says Pauline Le Floch."Urban furniture has been designed so that it can be dismantled during filming." At the moment the department of Mayenne (Western-central France) is hosting the crews of La Bataille de Farador In Occitanie, production companies looking for original and unusual locations, which are sometimes very different from the stereotypical image associated with them, can consult the Screen Occitanie website which is entirely dedicated to finding sets "We have worked on the ambiance using photography to better adapt to the language of film but the place must tell a story." This year in Villefranche-de-Rouergue in the department of Aveyron the crews of the US mini-series All the Light We Cannot See on the Second World War and more specifically on the liberation in 1944 of the town of Saint-Malo It turns out that one of the town's squares is home to a granite stone similar to that in Saint-Malo Development of the audiovisual ecosystem requires the film commissions to reinvent themselves while enabling them to strengthen the local industry etc.) is one of their other responsibilities filming in Atlantic Loire Valley –which generated more than 4 million euros in revenue for the region– resulted in 167 technicians being recruited in the area 71 leading roles and 1,077 extras roles being offered "Our film office is part of Solutions&co alongside the regional offices of Atout France Film/France CNC and Business France," explains Pauline Le Floch "This synergy allows us to rely on a network of experts who are highly specialised in resource development." actors and performers who are ready to take part in filming is another way of contributing to the vitality of the local labour market "It reassures production companies that they will find seasoned professionals outside the Paris area," says Marin Rosenstiehl The film commission in Occitanie works closely with Travelling the region has attracted three daily shows Tomorrow is Ours (TF1) and Ici tout commence (TF1) A daily show employs about 200 people a day and 600 a year a complex covering more than 40,000 square metres with nine film sets 13,000 square metres of production space and 6,000 square metres for training audiovisual professions This initiative is part of the France 2030 "The Great Image Factory" project a national investment plan which aims to make France the European leader in filming and digital production In the Atlantic Loire Valley and Occitanie about 15 fiction films are already in the pipeline for example Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant (by Tran Anh Hung) which is a film based on Marcel Rouffe’s novel starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel and Le Livre des solutions (by Michel Gondry) You do not have access to www.researchgate.net The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site Metrics details researchers have assumed that the plane of the lateral semicircular canal of the inner ear lies parallel to the horizon when the head is at rest and used this assumption to reconstruct head posture in extinct species Although this hypothesis has been repeatedly questioned it has never been tested on a large sample size and at a broad taxonomic scale in mammals This study presents a comprehensive test of this hypothesis in over one hundred “ungulate” species the orientation of the skull was reconstructed as if the lateral semicircular canal of the bony labyrinth was aligned horizontally This reconstructed cranial orientation was statistically compared to the actual head posture of the corresponding species using a dataset of 10,000 photographs and phylogenetic regression analysis A statistically significant correlation between the reconstructed cranial orientation and head posture is found although the plane of the lateral semicircular canal departs significantly from horizontal We thus caution against the use of the lateral semicircular canal as a proxy to infer precisely the horizontal plane on dry skulls and in extinct species Diet (browsing or grazing) and head-butting behaviour are significantly correlated to the orientation of the lateral semicircular canal Head posture and the orientation of the lateral semicircular canal are both strongly correlated with phylogenetic history these studies were made on a small number of individuals (domestic animals and rodents usually) even though studies in humans have shown that the orientation of the plane of the LSC can vary a lot within species (e.g robust evidence in support of the hypothesis that the orientation of the plane of the LSC is horizontal when the animal is at rest be used to reconstruct head posture in extinct species which makes it easier to compare the orientation of the head in live animals to that of the corresponding dry skulls Protocol to photograph animal head posture (a) An animal stands or slowly walks The camera is positioned to photograph the animal in lateral view (b) A spirit-level mounted on top of the camera ensures that the picture is captured when the camera is held horizontally (c) The borders of the resulting picture are parallel to the horizontal plane (which enables measurement of neutral head posture) That is why this study focuses on zoo animals hippos) were taken when the animal’s head was not immersed so that their head posture was not influenced by buoyancy Measurement protocols illustrated on a white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). (a) Neutral head posture measured from the photographs (see Fig. 1) (b) Reconstructed cranial orientation from the CT-scans (c) A combination of the two measurements that illustrates how the orientation of the plane of the laterals semicircular canal compares to the horizontal all measurements were taken by the same author (J.B.) None of the samples expressed strong lateral tilting of the LSC or an undulating morphology that could impede taking this measurement or affect its accuracy The intraspecific standard deviation (measurement error) for reconstructed head posture is ± 2.1° only the individuals showing reasonable signs of maturity (e.g All regressions were performed using raw and log-transformed data (natural logarithm) Both variables in the models are in the same unit and order of magnitude and the models built with raw data showed a higher significance and met parametric assumptions better than models built with log-transformed data we used the former to assess the relationship between the two variables As the animals were not approached or armed no ethical clearance was necessary for this study All the data in the dataset for which a phylogenetic signal could be measured (neutral head posture, reconstructed cranial orientation, body mass, and head-butting) carry a strong phylogenetic signal (lambda > 0.8 for the first three variables; D = − 0.2841056 for head-butting) (See Supplementary Table S1) Boxplot of neutral head posture (left) and reconstructed cranial orientation (right) in degrees (°) in species with body mass below 100 kg (< 100 kg) and species with body mass superior or equal to 100 kg (≥ 100 kg) The average angle for each category is indicated in the corresponding boxplot n represents the number of species in each category Phylogenetic regressions (Fig. 4a) identify a statistically significant (p-value = 4.519e−07) but relatively low correlation (R2 = 0.261) between neutral head posture and the reconstructed cranial orientation. This supports that the orientation of the LSC in life is correlated to the neutral head posture in “ungulates”. The equation of the linear model is: Phylogenetic regressions of neutral head posture of living mammals plotted against the reconstructed cranial orientation (in °) without body mass (a) and with body mass included as a co-predictor (b) The 95% confidence interval for the slope (0.242–0.526) is significantly different from 1 which means that this model cannot be approximated to an isometric relationship (which would be expected if the LSC was held horizontally) The model including body mass, neutral, and reconstructed head postures, and the interaction term of the three as co-predictors was selected by AICc as fitting our data best (Fig. 4b) This model shows results very similar to those of the simple regression model being significant with a slightly stronger correlation (R2 = 0.325; p-value = 3.235e−07) The equation of the resulting model is written: and are reported here to ensure full transparency of our results Boxplot of neutral head posture (left) and reconstructed cranial orientation (right) in degrees (°) in browsers (green) and omnivorous + myrmecophagous species (other) (grey) Boxplot of neutral head posture (left) and reconstructed cranial orientation (right) in degrees (°) in species living in closed (green) Boxplot of neutral head posture (left) and reconstructed cranial orientation (right) in degrees (°) in non-head-butting (No H-B) and head butting (H-B) species which means that they cannot be approximated by isometric lines though there is a significant correlation between the orientation of the LSC and that of the head in “ungulates” the plane of the LSC should not be considered horizontal when reconstructing ancient head posture the first of these equations may seem more practical to estimate the actual head posture of a given extinct ungulate species which might indicate a low predictive power of these models (R2 equals 0.26 and 0.33 such data could nevertheless enable testing whether the orientation of the LSC would be a better predictor of the head posture during locomotion rather than at rest Both the neutral and reconstructed head postures carry an important phylogenetic signal (Lambda equals 0.97 and 0.84 this strong phylogenetic signal implies that the best way to predict the head posture of an extinct “ungulate” is to look at the neutral head posture of its modern relatives diet is found to have only a weak correlation with the reconstructed cranial orientation (F = 7.723; p-value = 0.046) and no significant effect on the neutral head posture (F = 2.663; p-value = 0.516) Neutral head posture in three species of Tylopoda (a) and Alcelaphinae (b) contrasting the almost horizontal head posture assumed by Camelus and Vicugna with the almost vertical head posture of Alcelaphus and hippotragins) whereas the small ones mostly belong to the Antilopinae A larger and broader sampling among mammals is thus likely to blur such a signal and could result in a more homogeneous distribution of residuals that would not necessarily match so closely the observed pattern of relative phylogenetic proximity Boxplot of neutral head posture (left) and reconstructed cranial orientation (right) in degree (°) in browsing (green), mixed feeding (orange), and grazing (yellow) Rhinocerotidae. The average angle for each category is indicated in the corresponding boxplot. n represents the number of measurements in each category. Boxplot of neutral head posture (left) and reconstructed cranial orientation (right) in degrees (°) in browsing (green) n represents the number of measurements in each category This suggests that even though diet could potentially be reconstructed in extinct species using the orientation of the LSC caution should be taken as i) browsers and grazers could be statistically discriminated but mixed feeders could not; ii) the correlation between reconstructed cranial orientation and diet does not seem to reflect on the neutral head posture The reason why remains unknown; and iii) the high p-value suggests that adding more data (particularly CT data) in the future may affect this correlation a correlation between an upward tilting of the LSC and semi-aquatic lifestyle is not supported by current data and head posture underwater (c) in Hippopotamus amphibius Comparison of the cranial (transparent), endocranial (pink), and LSC (green) orientations in a non-head-butting species (Tapirus indicus, a) and a head-butting species (Connochaetes taurinus, b). Boxplot of intraspecific variation of neutral head posture in degrees (°) in individuals in which horns or ossicones are present or large (Horns) and absent or small (No horns) Neutral head posture is here found to be significantly correlated to the orientation of the plane of the LSC in “ungulate” mammals and it appears that diet and head-butting have an effect on LSC orientation although not on neutral head posture as would be expected This suggests an overall relaxed constraint on the alignment of the plane of the LSC to the horizontal at rest Head posture during locomotion and/or adaptation to head-butting might play a more significant role in the orientation of the LSC than its horizontality at rest two possibilities that will have to be addressed further although this study finds that there is some interesting ecological and behavioral signal in the orientation of the LSC of ungulates that could be exploited by paleontologists it is crucial to highlight that the phylogenetic signal was highly significant for all the variables examined here and as such what the orientation of the LSC reflects the best in “ungulates” is their phylogeny more than anything else Further understanding of the evolutionary processes associated with such a strong phylogenetic disparity will require investigating each subclade in the sample individually and a more exhaustive sample for each of them The datasets analysed during the current study are available in the Supplementary Table S1 and online at this URL: https://osf.io/4vpnj/?view_only=3dc987012fcd44a6a64ad7d8949ec01f (https://doi.org/10.17605/Osf.Io/4vpnj) Data replicated in the Wits Data Archive and can be guaranteed to be in the holding of the University of Witwatersrand Destinée du canal semi-circulaire externe dans le passage de la station quadrupède à la station bipède plan des canaux semi-circulaires horizontaux considéré comme plan horizontal de la tête Über die Lage des Canalis semicircularis lateralis bei Säugern L’attitude normale de la tête déterminée par le labyrinthe de l’oreille Size and position of the functional components of the skull: a contribution to the knowledge of the architecture of the skull On the head posture in birds and its relation features Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen C 54 Fixité du canal-semicirculaire externe et variations de l’angle thyridien Justification des principes de la méthode véstibulaire The orientation of the cervical vertebral column in unrestrained awake animals I système vestibulaire : anatomie fonctionnelle et comparée Resolving Head Rotation for Human Bipedalism Semicircular canals and agility: the influence of size and shape measures Locomotor head movements and semicircular canal morphology in primates Dicynodonts and their role as primary consumers in The Ecology and Biology of Mammal-like Reptiles (eds Implications of early hominid labyrinthine morphology for evolution of human bipedal locomotion Neuroanatomy of flying reptiles and implications for flight Structural extremes in a cretaceous dinosaur and ear region of tyrannosaurs (Dinosauria with implications for sensory organization and behavior A comparative assessment of the size of the frontal air sinus in the Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) Synchrotron scanning reveals the palaeoneurology of the head-butting Moschops capensis (Therapsida Aspects of gorgonopsian paleobiology and evolution: insights from the basicranium Ontogenetic braincase development in Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) using micro-computed tomography Endocranial anatomy and life habits of the Early Triassic archosauriform Proterosuchus fergusi Neuroanatomy of the spinosaurid Irritator challengeri (Dinosauria: Theropoda) indicates potential adaptations for piscivory Endocranial anatomy of the ceratopsid dinosaur Triceratops and interpretations of sensory and motor function A potential link between lateral semicircular canal orientation and dietary habits in extant rhinos (Perissodactyla The braincase and inner ear of Placodus gigas (Sauropterygia Placodontia)—a new reconstruction based on micro-computed tomographic data Schaffer, W. 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University Hospital Switzerland; and staff at the Department of Radiology The authors are grateful to the following institutions for access to their collections: Ditsong Museum (Dr Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (Suzanne Jicquel Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich (Martina Schenkel) American Museum of Natural History (Eileen Westwig) Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (Kristof Zyskowski) This study was made possible by the support of the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences (CoE in Palaeosciences) Opinions expressed and conclusions arrived at are those of the authors and are not necessarily to be attributed to the CoE in Palaeosciences MB and LC acknowledge Georg Schulz and Bert Müller for scanning the specimens and the financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation through projects SNF Project 200021_159854/1 and 200021_178853/1 AF acknowledges financial support from a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology JMN was funded by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (ECF-2017-360) Alf Museum of Paleontology at the Webb Schools Oxford University Museum of Natural History All authors gave final approval for publication The authors declare no competing interests Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76757-0 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science Having visited the southern city of Montpellier just briefly this summer I find myself with an overwhelming urge to go back again very soon to see more of this marvelous university town brimming with sophistication and charm.The capital of the Languedoc-Roussillon region in fact Montpellier is one of the most visited cities in the south of France less than four miles from the Mediterranean seacoast means that it attracts a large number of both foreign and French tourists in the summer months During the rest of the year it’s teeming with some 60,000 students attending its top-notch university whose world-famous medical school predates the official founding of the university in 1289—both Nostradamus and Rabelais were medical students there in the 16th century Wandering through the cobbled streets of the Old Town and marveling at the plethora of exclusive boutiques and fashionable cafés I was reminded of Oxford—in a sunny Mediterranean version.The large student contingent means that the city’s population of some 260,000 has an average age of just 25 Montpellier is also one of France’s fastest growing cities Over the last few decades it has become a thriving center for high-tech industries and international companies such as IBM and Dell have moved into the suburbs bolstering the population of greater Montpellier and providing it with a substantial expatriate community The old city center is now pedestrian-only and a great many residents do not use cars at all Along with one of the most modern tramway systems in France the city also has an excellent bus network and the forward-thinking Modul auto municipal rental car system—residents and visitors alike can rent a car for as little as an hour with pickup and return points in neighborhood parking lots all across town the city center is a labyrinth of winding streets full of wonderful shops restaurants and bars extending from the 18th-century Place de la Comédie to the 17th-century Arc de Triomphe and the terraces of the Promenade du Peyrou which was planned in 1688 as a setting for a monumental equestrian statue of Louis XIV the Jardin des Plantes is the oldest botanical garden in France installed in a former Benedictine monastery founded in the 14th century and attached to the cathedral of Saint Pierre Aligned on either side of the Place de la Comédie the city’s very active Opera House and the superb Musée Fabre form a link between the old quarters of the city to the west and the surprisingly audacious modern developments to the north and east—the massive commercial complex called the Corum and the Quartier Antigone 100-acre ensemble of neoclassic buildings designed by the Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill property in this delightful French city is not cheap Prices have risen considerably in the last five years as more and more multinational companies have moved to the area both for students and employees and managers relocating for work means that the buy-to-rent opportunities in the city are among the best in the country According to the France Property Shop website prices in 2010 were around €2,776 per square meter (one square meter equals 10.76 square feet) the farther you go from the center the less you pay The best areas within the city proper are the quartiers of La Mosson where real estate agents say house hunters can find detached houses for around €300,000 there is a bright and airy 14-square-meter studio in the city center just a few minutes away from the Place de la Comédie there’s a four-bedroom house on the market for an asking price of €215,000 suggests that an attractive alternative to paying city center prices is to look in some of the beautiful villages surrounding Montpellier There are lots of apartments available in the central area since Montpellier has such a large university population and you will find some beautiful houses in beautiful locations Many of the villages in which we have houses for sale are just a 10-to-15-minute drive from Montpellier,” she adds “and transport links to the city are excellent.” Montferrier-sur-Lez is a pretty village just north of the city with plenty of amenities including good schools Here there is a two-bedroom “roof villa” with wonderful views over the surrounding countryside for €385,900 a buyer looking for easy maintenance can find a three-bedroom flat with use of a communal swimming pool on the market for €265,000 whose agency specializes in high-end properties says: “Sales are pretty steady at the moment We have lots of interested Anglophone buyers not necessarily from the UK but from Ireland and the US “Five years ago if you saw something you really liked you had to move very quickly who runs her business Moving to Montpellier from her home there Lunel offers much of the charm of Montpellier without the stiff prices It’s also just 12 minutes by train to the center of Montpellier so it’s a great choice for people who need to commute to the financial center or to any of the high-tech companies The area around Lunel is sometimes called the Little Camargue because of its proximity and similarity to the Camargue in the Rhône River delta A three-bedroom house in the Lunel suburbs is currently on the market for €260,000 “My husband works in Montpellier,” says Johnson “He cycles five minutes to the train station There are special hooks on the trains for the bikes and a monthly pass including the tram only costs €68 a month but we are protected by the Cévennes Mountains in the north The beaches are only about four miles away the nearest skiing is about an hour and a half away and Barcelona is just three hours by TGV.” Originally published in the October 2011 issue of France Today We collect information from our users – this is for administration and contact purposes in connection with contributions you may wish to make to the site or your use of certain site features such as newsletter subscriptions and property enquiries 2 issues make it necessary to rethink traffic: Passing through the city center to cross Montpellier completely It is therefore imperative to reduce this transit traffic 2 routes are planned via boulevards and road bypasses: solutions are in place to avoid traffic jams: parking lots and alternative car use schemes Easy access to the city center with convenient parking is possible: The Comédie tunnel reinforces its function as access to the 1,200 spaces in the Comédie and Triangle parking lots the route to these parking lots is reinforced The Métropole has installed 66 charging stations Notably in the vicinity of the Hôtel de Ville and Hôtel de Métropole and in multimodal interchange hubs (Saint-Roch In 2024, the Metropole has gradually deployed 600 new charging points in public spaces with its partner E-totem The slowest charge will be free for metropolitan residents via the M'ticket application Charging points for electric-assist bicycles will also be available the maximum speed limit in Montpellier's "agglomerate zone" has been 30 km/h There are many arguments in favor of this measure This decision is the responsibility of the local authorities 5 advances to consider when lifting the foot off the gas: The other communes have agreed to a gradual application all communes in the metropolis will have generalized 30 km/h Since July 1, 2022, the "Low Emission Zone" (ZFE) has been implemented in the Montpellier metropolis This national scheme is compulsory in 35 French conurbations restrict the right to circulate to the most polluting vehicles the ZFE is one of the actions to improve air quality along with public transport (free and extended network) cycling (reserved lanes and assistance) and walking The air is significantly impacted by various emissions linked to road traffic: nitrogen oxides first these pollutants combined with the effects of sunlight generate Ozone in the ambient air All these pollutants have effects on health: respiratory problems Private and professional users of motor vehicles 6 categories, from the least polluting vehicle to the most polluting, according to the energy used and the date of introduction. Classification according to the information on the vehicle registration certificate ("carte grise"). You can apply for the sticker on the government website: certificat-air.gouv.fr These are the result of consultation with local political and economic players Matthieu V © shutterstockOKIls sont célèbres dans toute la France Parfois même dans le monde entier ou au-delà de notre galaxie et pourtant ils sont du village voisin ou de ta ville  Découvre le top des célébrités qui ont des racines bien de de chez nous  Ancien remplaçant officiel de Bixente Lizarazu sur le flanc gauche de l’équipe de France Vincent Candela a fait partie de la génération dorée ayant remportée le doublé coupe du monde – euro en 1998 puis 2000 Richard Gasquet est un joueur français de tennis professionnel il devient numéro 1 mondial chez les juniors en 2002 année où il passe professionnel Il est actuellement 39ème au classement ATP et participe aux Internationaux de France Immense star de la chanson lors de la seconde moitié du 20ème siècle c’est Jean-Paul Sartre en personne qui écrit les paroles de la première chanson de la jolie brune La Rue des Blancs-Manteaux la Montpelliéraine se lance dans le cinéma avant de revenir à son premier amour la chanteuse effectue sa tournée d'adieu à l'étranger et en France l’homme à la moustache et à la pipe est l’auteur de plus de deux cents chansons populaires françaises — parmi lesquelles : Chanson pour l'Auvergnat Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète Les Trompettes de la renommée… il reçoit le Grand prix de la poésie de l’Académie française en 1967 Il se fait connaître en publiant des vidéos sur Internet : impostures et vidéos burlesques avec pour slogan : « C'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui » Rappelez-vous son passage à la serre amazonienne du zoo du lunaret grimé en Tarzan Ancien joueur de rugby à XV qui a évolué au poste de talonneur avant de devenir entraîneur il est manager du Castres olympique en Top 14 il est champion de France en tant que joueur en 1993 Elle est connue pour avoir présenté l'émission "Fan de", de 1997 à 2005 sur M6 et pour son rôle de Chloé dans Studio Sud Mathias Malzieu est le chanteur du groupe de rock français Dionysos Préfet de l'Aveyron puis d'Eure-et-Loir l'organisation de résistance la France libre à Londres Il dirigea le Conseil national de la Résistance durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale Considéré comme l'un des principaux héros de la Résistance il est compagnon de la Libération en 1942 Il est assassiné par la Gestapo en 1943 Un cénotaphe lui est dédié au Panthéon où se trouvent les tombeaux des grands personnages de la République française Rédacteur au ministère de la Guerre (1895) il se distingue par une approche exigeante de ses vers qui soulignent la prééminence du langage Ses célèbres Cahiers témoignent de cette volonté réflexive « totale » Le plus célèbre des guitaristes gitan Manitas de Plata sort des disques et parcourt le monde en compagnie de son fils aîné en Algérie… Manitas a vendu plus de 93 millions d'albums Alexandra a été élue Miss Languedoc 2005 puis Miss France 2006 et Miss Europe 2006 Netflix lance une télé-réalité inspirée de Charlie et la Chocolaterie Voici les 5 sujets à éviter lors des fêtes de fin d’année selon les Français Voici le top 10 des artistes les plus écoutés en France sur Spotify Montpellier has relatively few earthquakes Based on data from the past 55 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900 there are about 206 quakes on average per year in or near Montpellier Montpellier has had at least 2 quakes above magnitude 4 since 1970 which suggests that larger earthquakes of this size occur infrequently probably on average approximately every 25 to 30 years The last earthquake in Montpellier occurred 17 hours ago and had a magnitude of 1.4: Mag. 1.4 earthquake near Montpellier - writeAge(1746439857)A light magnitude 1.4 earthquake hit 8.1 km (5 mi) away from Montpellier, Occitanie,  France The quake was too small to be felt by people Montpellier has had 1 quake of magnitude 2.2 There have been also 19 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel Details of the quake (if it is one) are so far preliminary until confirmed by a seismic agency but the event was reported by the Raspberry Shake Citizen Seismic network and is likely to be confirmed by other agencies soon.