Rodez - Paul Fraysse

With about 25,000 inhabitants, Rodez is today the economic and cultural center of the Aveyron department.

The city has a history spanning over 2,000 years and was known as Segodunum under the Romans. After the Romans, Rodez was occupied by the Visigoths, the Franks, the armies of the Dukes of Aquitaine and the Counts of Toulouse, and by the Moors, who besieged the city in 725 and destroyed the old church. Several centuries later, the English besieged the city during the Hundred Years' War.

Today there two universities here, whose more than 3000 students bring life to the city.

In the early 1900s Paul Fraysse probably had the nicest shoe shop in town.