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It was an Italian in France who first came across the brilliant red marble quarries of the Languedoc region in 1615. The sculptor Stefano Sormano, born in Rome, had been tasked with searching out new reserves of stone by the Abbot Jean d'Alibert, who presided over the Abbey of Caunes that owned the land.