In the late Neolithic appear sets of dry stone huts, representative of the civilization of which we know Fontbouisse a hundred sites around Montpellier, the village of Rocher du Causse in Claret (2500 to 1 800 years BC . JC), dolmens and the Cave of the Hortus. Hérault land has always attracted men. She earned her story in the meeting of races, the merger of civilizations. The Iberians from the south, the Etruscans arrived by sea, the Celts of the Rhineland, the Ligurians of Italy have worked with, successive mixed. Then the Greeks, the Romans who left so many traces in the department. Later, the most diverse religious passions clash, marking the terrible struggles of Hérault. In the fifteenth century, French became the official language. The Hérault finds its place in European trade and is already running to the Levant and Catalonia. The fairs are growing: Montagnac and Pézenas required. The seventeenth century is that of public works, construction of the Canal du Midi, the port of "This" (Sète) and by shaping the land Peyrou Hérault. At the same time, the intellectual life develops under the impetus of the Royal Scientific Society of Béziers and Montpellier who collaborate in the Encyclopedia. The department of Herault is created during the Revolution, the first known map is performed on 14 Pluviôse VI. In 1851, after the coup of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the villages around Béziers up in arms. In December the department has declared a state of siege. The nineteenth century saw the vine to become the first instrument of wealth in the Herault, noon wine takes full advantage of its supremacy through the railroad that has just been built.