Lacoste, Vaucluse still. The oldest building in the town, the Maison Forte, dates back to the 9th century while the nearby Pont Julien remains one of the oldest standing examples of a working 1st century B.C. Roman bridge. Finnbar Mac Eoin, author of "Two Suitcases And A Dog" lives in Lacoste. He was the last person to drive across The Pont Julien before it closed to traffic in 2005. A plaque states, "We do not know who was the first person to cross, but an Irishman was the last". Lacoste is best known for its most notorious resident, Donatien Alphonse Francois comte
Alphonse Brot Alphonse Brot Charles Alphonse Brot (12 April 1807 – 3 January 1895) was a prolific French author and playwright. Charles Alphonse Brot was born on 12 April 1807 in Paris. He studied at the Lycee Bonaparte (now the Lycée Condorcet), in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Brot became a member of the romantic literary group "les Jeunes-France" (Young France), sometimes called "les Bouzingos", which also included Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval, Jules Vabre, Petrus Borel, Philothée O’Neddy, Augustus McKeat, Aloysius Bertrand, Joseph Bouchardy, Louis Boulanger, Achille Devéria, Eugène Devéria, Célestin Nanteuil and Jehan de Seigneur. He wrote many well-received dramas.